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From: mga on 24 Jul 2006 22:24 Be aware that the customers' "Product Reviews" at Tigerdirect.com are a fraud; if you submit a negative review, they don't post it. I have purhased 3 bad items from them, but had not posted any reviews. 1) If you want to copy your VHS movies to your computer, do not buy the ATI All In Wonder 2006; it assumes that all the VHS tapes have macrovision, the exception being recordings into VHS from the TV; in other words, if you want to back up your legitimately purchased movies that do NOT have macrovision protection, it will not let you do it. I submitted a review mentioning this issue among others with this card, and they don't post it, and ignored my email asking them why they rejected the review. 2) I purchased 2 ADS external hard drive enclosures; one of them went bad after one week. The other still works after 6 months. 3) I purchased a 25 foot S-Video cable; the signal that the TV gets is the video + horizontal lines going up the screen.
From: kony on 25 Jul 2006 01:37 On 24 Jul 2006 19:24:01 -0700, "mga" <marioarguello(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Be aware that the customers' "Product Reviews" at Tigerdirect.com are a >fraud; if you submit a negative review, they don't post it. > Why did you purchase from them in the first place? A little bit of research at the BBB, various online forums, and resellerratings.com will reveal all kinds of shady practices. >I have purhased 3 bad items from them, but had not posted any reviews. Always research a company before buying. Ignore positive reviews, any company still in business will get it right a few times... instead, focus on the problem reviews and how they attempted (if they did attempt at all) to rectify any problems. > >1) If you want to copy your VHS movies to your computer, do not buy the >ATI All In Wonder 2006; it assumes that all the VHS tapes have >macrovision, the exception being recordings into VHS from the TV; in >other words, if you want to back up your legitimately purchased movies >that do NOT have macrovision protection, it will not let you do it. I >submitted a review mentioning this issue among others with this card, >and they don't post it, and ignored my email asking them why they >rejected the review. There might be hacks to get around that problem, as false macrovision detection has been an annoyance for quite a few years with various cards, not just AIW 2006, but to be frank, if there were any capture/tuner card brand that I'd avoid, it'd be ATI. Their hardware is fine but their drivers and philosophy in general leaves a bit to be desired. > >2) I purchased 2 ADS external hard drive enclosures; one of them went >bad after one week. The other still works after 6 months. > >3) I purchased a 25 foot S-Video cable; the signal that the TV gets is >the video + horizontal lines going up the screen. I'd wonder if something else isn't wrong, even a poor (cheap, low-end) cable will do far better than that. I suppose a defective cable is possible but I wouldn't assume it just yet.
From: mga on 25 Jul 2006 03:53 kony wrote: > On 24 Jul 2006 19:24:01 -0700, "mga" > <marioarguello(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > >Be aware that the customers' "Product Reviews" at Tigerdirect.com are a > >fraud; if you submit a negative review, they don't post it. > > > > Why did you purchase from them in the first place? > A little bit of research at the BBB, various online forums, > and resellerratings.com will reveal all kinds of shady > practices. > > > >I have purhased 3 bad items from them, but had not posted any reviews. > > Always research a company before buying. Ignore positive > reviews, any company still in business will get it right a > few times... instead, focus on the problem reviews and how > they attempted (if they did attempt at all) to rectify any > problems. > > > > > >1) If you want to copy your VHS movies to your computer, do not buy the > >ATI All In Wonder 2006; it assumes that all the VHS tapes have > >macrovision, the exception being recordings into VHS from the TV; in > >other words, if you want to back up your legitimately purchased movies > >that do NOT have macrovision protection, it will not let you do it. I > >submitted a review mentioning this issue among others with this card, > >and they don't post it, and ignored my email asking them why they > >rejected the review. > > There might be hacks to get around that problem, as false > macrovision detection has been an annoyance for quite a few > years with various cards, not just AIW 2006, but to be > frank, if there were any capture/tuner card brand that I'd > avoid, it'd be ATI. Their hardware is fine but their > drivers and philosophy in general leaves a bit to be > desired. > > > > > >2) I purchased 2 ADS external hard drive enclosures; one of them went > >bad after one week. The other still works after 6 months. > > > >3) I purchased a 25 foot S-Video cable; the signal that the TV gets is > >the video + horizontal lines going up the screen. > > I'd wonder if something else isn't wrong, even a poor > (cheap, low-end) cable will do far better than that. I > suppose a defective cable is possible but I wouldn't assume > it just yet. Thanks for your input. I had only bought about $30-$40 worth at a time from them (the bad hard drive enclosure being one of them, after I had earlier bought the good one which still works after 6 months) a couple of times. The video card and the S-video cable I bought with my last purchase 2 weeks ago. Your are correct, their software is garbage, that's one of the other many problems, which I didn't mention in the original post. Interestingly, I also have the AIW 7500 Radeon, and that one correctly identified the macrovision and non-macrovision tapes, but that computer died, hence new computer and new video card (the old card is an AGP, the new PCI express). From the research and experimentation I have done, I have come to the conclusion that the card is overly sensitive to errors in the tape, and concludes that anything other than a perfect tape has macrovision in it; does that sound right to you? Keep in mind that these are not bad tapes, they play perfectly on the TV.
From: kony on 25 Jul 2006 17:02
On 25 Jul 2006 00:53:35 -0700, "mga" <marioarguello(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Your are correct, their software is garbage, that's one of the other >many problems, which I didn't mention in the original post. >Interestingly, I also have the AIW 7500 Radeon, and that one correctly >identified the macrovision and non-macrovision tapes, but that computer >died, hence new computer and new video card (the old card is an AGP, >the new PCI express). From the research and experimentation I have >done, I have come to the conclusion that the card is overly sensitive >to errors in the tape, and concludes that anything other than a perfect >tape has macrovision in it; does that sound right to you? Keep in mind >that these are not bad tapes, they play perfectly on the TV. It sounds plausible, but I doubt anything can be done about it except completely disabling the macrovision, IF anyone has hacked it to do so. |