Press Release
- 2002
ATI announces the new All-in-Wonder® 9700 PRO
World's fastest multimedia graphics card features dual TV tuner support and
ATI's fastest DirectX® 9.0 graphics
Monday, September 30, 2002
MARKHAM, Ontario - Multimedia on the PC rises to a new level
with today's announcement from ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY,
NASDAQ:ATYT) of the All-in-Wonder® 9700 PRO. The world's
fastest multimedia graphics card joins the award-winning All-in-Wonder®
family to offer mulTView™ for dual TV tuner support and
128MB of Double Data Rate (DDR) memory plus more - powered
by the new Radeon® 9700 PRO GPU (visual processor unit)
graphics chip with cutting edge 2D and 3D graphics performance.
ATI's new flagship multimedia video card, All-in-Wonder 9700
PRO, will be available this fall for less than USD$500 and
will complement the currently shipping All-in-Wonder®
Radeon® 8500DV at USD$199 and the value-priced All-in-Wonder®
Radeon® 7500 at USD$149.
"With dual TV tuner support, we've delivered a major
customer-requested feature," said Godfrey Cheng, Director
of Marketing, Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "All-in-Wonder
9700 PRO delivers many great new features that elevate the
Home Theater PC to a brand new level. ATI continues to pack
the most excitement into one easily installable solution for
maximum performance, features and stability - no other multimedia
video card can deliver this much entertainment."
"All-in-Wonder 9700 PRO is designed around the critically
acclaimed Radeon 9700 PRO - the industry's first visual processing
unit - to deliver top performance, even for hard-core gamers,"
said Blair Birmingham, Group Product Manager, TV PC Multimedia
Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "This groundbreaking
graphics chip includes Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 support,
our VideoShader™ engine and video compression for an
extremely high quality video experience. We created All-in-Wonder
9700 PRO for the customer who wants to get the best multimedia
experience out of their computer for gaming, video editing
and enhanced TV viewing.
"We're also delivering on the high resolution visual
experience in the family room by providing Component Output
capabilities (YPrPb) with this product. All-in-Wonder 9700
PRO enables unique support for a non-interlaced display in
the family room for DVD, personal video recording (PVR), gaming
and other Windows-based applications."
- All-in-Wonder 9700 PRO offers the following features:
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- ATI's Multimedia Center 8.0 software - In addition
to a full range of critically-acclaimed multimedia functions
such as a free integrated program guide (North America
only) from Gemstar-TV Guide's GUIDE Plus+™ and
enhanced TV-on-Demand™ PVR for instant replays,
pausing live TV or recording live broadcasts for later
viewing, new software enhancements include:
- MulTView - Enables dual TV tuner capabilities such
as Picture-in-Picture when combined with ATI-TV WONDER™
or TV WONDER™ VE;
- ThruView™ - Allows for translucent viewing
of TV, DVD (digital versatile disk) and video file
playback;
- VideoSoap™ - Delivers advanced filtering to
reduce noise, improve sharpness and soften focus as
desired to provide the highest quality video compression
for PVR and personal video editing functions;
- FullStream™ - Uses pixel shaders, based on
innovative technology in Radeon 9700 PRO, to remove
blocky artifacts from streaming video and provides
sharper image quality and greater scalability;
- Closed Caption Search within TV-on-Demand™
complements the popular "Hotwords" functionality
with the PVR allowing the computer to search for content
of interest whether it happens in the future or the
recent past;
- Pinnacle Studio 8 SE - Offers powerful features
for consumer video editing;
- Matchware Mediator 7 - Enables the ability to combine
text, pictures, videos and sounds to build stunning
presentations in a few minutes;
- ATI's THEATER™ 200 - Provides exceptional video
and stereo audio quality viewing during live TV and
video input and capture - all based on technologies
from ATI's digital television research and development;
- VideoShader™ - Uses programmable pixel shader
technology to accelerate video processing and provide
better-looking visuals;
- Remote Wonder™ - Offers remote control via RF
(radio frequency) for instant easy access to all the
multimedia features (TV, video, DVD - and more) from
any other room in the house or office (requires USB
- universal serial bus) - it's the 30-foot User Interface
in the palm of your hand;
- Radeon® 9700 PRO GPU and 128MB (megabyte) DDR
memory - Designed for advanced 3D graphics and gaming;
- Component Video output via a YprPb adapter (available
in North America only) - Connects to the big screen
TV in the family room at high resolution with optimized
viewing modes;
- Stereo TV-tuner with 125 channels;
- Analog video capture and editing in MPEG-2 format
at up to 720x480 30 frames-per-second resolution;
- DVD video playback with Dolby® AC-3 digital audio;
- Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL®;
and,
- Backed by quality ATI customer support and a 3-year
limited warranty, All-in-Wonder 9700 PRO supports Windows®
XP, Windows® 2000, Windows® Me, and Windows®
98/98 SE (Windows Me driver can be installed on Windows
98/98SE).
Copyright 2002 ATI Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
ATI and ATI product and product feature names are trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. All
other company and product names are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of their respective owners. Features, pricing,
availability and specifications are subject to change without
notice.
About ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and
manufacture of innovative 3D graphics and digital media silicon
solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's
foremost visual processor unit (GPU) provider and is dedicated
to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full
range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation,
set-top and digital television, game console and handheld
markets. With 2001 revenues in excess of US $1 billion, ATI
has more than 1,900 employees in the Americas, Europe and
Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto
Stock Exchange (ATY).
Contact Information
For media or industry analyst support, visit our Web site
at http://www.ati.com .
Other ATI Contacts:
Pedro Cabezuelo, Senior Counsellor, BenchMark Porter Novelli,
at (416) 422-7164 or pcabezuelo@bmporternovelli.com
For Information:
John Swinimer, Public Relations Manager, Consumer Products,
at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 8456 or swinimer@ati.com
For investor relations support, please contact:
Janet Craig, Director, Investor Relations, ATI Technologies
Inc., at (905) 882-2600, Ext. 2631 or jcraig@ati.com
