Won't waste my $$$ on this cheap trick.
I still have four unsupported AIWs in my junk box.
Don't be surprised when it's not supported under Windows 7.

During the past 3 to 4 years, I have changed CPUs, motheboards, drives, pretty much everything that I can think of including the case. The only thing that remained constant through all that is my ATI AIW9600 card.
I've been pondering another big upgrade and the biggest thing stopping me was the thought of having to get a t.v. card and a separate video card. I wasn't too crazy about that and kept putting the upgrade idea on the back burner as a result. For me, this time, procrastination paid off.

I had an X700 AIW...FM tuner NEVER worked, video capture DIED after about 60 days. I got a full ATX board for a reason, LOTS-O-SLOTS.

Gimme a Radeon capture card for a PCI-e X1 slot and I'm a happy camper, especially if it will do analog + digital capture. I will say that the Radeon capture quality was excellent, while it lasted.

Stacking multiple functionalities on one board is bad news...if the capture goes out, you're out display, too, unless of course you just want to keep a broken card.

Is this AMD's new PR strategy? A story every few days, because if so, I LIKE IT NOM NOM NOM.

This is a worthy product. I wonder if they'll come out with a 4000 series version before the year is out.

Enough people are doing HTPC to play games as much as watch movies, so a 3650 just ain't gonna cut it. Today, if you ask me, the 3850 level of performance is bare minimum. But that won't work for HTPC. An underclocked 4850 would probably have good thermals and perform well. I've been wondering why they can't just do an additional card with a crossfire style connector and mount to the motherboard with a PCI or x1 PCI express slot. This would let the user pick the GPU performance level they want.

Maybe the people who are jumping on others for noting the lack of inputs as standard should realize that past AIWs came with the now extra-cost kit.

Nice, but yeah it's a bit skimpy on ports.

Notice a continuation of the scary trend. There is NO video capture capability. So not only does Media Center not support S-video capture but this ATI card does not even have AV inputs. Real nice features when cable goes all digital in US and real nice for people wanting to capture old home video tapes.

That, coupled with the trend of forcing you to use inefficient, clunky, 10-ft user interfaces while sitting at the PC, has destroyed the fantastic product you had in the original AIW with original Ati MMC. And I bet they have taken away the ability to record lossless, 15Mbs (25Mbs max), mpeg. All HW encoding I have seen is insanely bad compared to MMC 9.xx software encoding.

I wonder just how well the QAM tuner integrates with Vista Media Center.

This is a fantastic idea. I hope they make a 4850 one so I don't have to buy a TV for my office.

Fricken A. About time.

I hope the 4650 does to the 3650 what the 4850 did to the 3850.

For a HTPC, they should have passive cooling as the default configuration. SPCR just reviewed a passively cooled 3650 recently (and gave it high praise), so this is not a technical hurdle.