No manufactures have any requirment to put out HD only complient products.
The only requirement is that all TVs shipped into the US or across state
borders are now required to have digial tuners.
All digital broadcasts are not in HD resolutions and in fact most are in
good old SD 480i resolution.
However, all HD broadcasts are in digital formats.
"thxheynow" wrote in message
news
After really reading through and talking to ATI and calling them I
realized,
there cards are all not HDTV ready really. If i were to hook up a hd
cable
box or sat tuner to it. This year or this month even arent all tv
manufacters required to put out HD complient products? Does or why doesnt
this apply to companies putting out analog tv tuner cards??

"Christopher -- 330" wrote:

What is the requirement for a vendor to state a product is Vista Ready?
ATI
labels its TV Wonder line Vista Ready and ATI tested, But has no drivers,
not
even Betas for this product on the Vista RTM.

Does VISTA READY mean... "Eventually we will have a driver for Vista" or
that there is a tested and released driver... Perhaps you guys at MS
need to
police some branding issues.

Well standards or not what i ment was I was surprised that most tv
tuner cards arent ready to go for plugging hd cable boxes into to watch on a
hd pc monitor. I would have assumed that change over started when hd
monitors came out.

"JW" wrote:

No manufactures have any requirment to put out HD only complient products.
The only requirement is that all TVs shipped into the US or across state
borders are now required to have digial tuners.
All digital broadcasts are not in HD resolutions and in fact most are in
good old SD 480i resolution.
However, all HD broadcasts are in digital formats.
"thxheynow" wrote in message
news
After really reading through and talking to ATI and calling them I
realized,
there cards are all not HDTV ready really. If i were to hook up a hd
cable
box or sat tuner to it. This year or this month even arent all tv
manufacters required to put out HD complient products? Does or why doesnt
this apply to companies putting out analog tv tuner cards??

"Christopher -- 330" wrote:

What is the requirement for a vendor to state a product is Vista Ready?
ATI
labels its TV Wonder line Vista Ready and ATI tested, But has no drivers,
not
even Betas for this product on the Vista RTM.

Does VISTA READY mean... "Eventually we will have a driver for Vista" or
that there is a tested and released driver... Perhaps you guys at MS
need to
police some branding issues.