Press Release
- 2004
ATI Delivers Personal Video Recording
To The PC For Every Budget
Three new All-in-Wonder® solutions
also offer easy video editing
and amazing video graphics for great game play
Monday, January
26, 2004
MARKHAM, Ontario – Watching TV
on your PC has never been more affordable thanks to new additions
to the All-in-Wonder® family of video graphics cards. ATI
Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY, NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced All-in-Wonder® 9600XT,
All-in-Wonder® 9600, and All-in-Wonder® 9200. These new
graphics cards offer exciting personal video recording of favorite
television programs, easy-to-use video editing, and amazing graphics
for great gaming experiences at prices for any consumer’s
budget.
The family of best-in-class multimedia video cards, featuring
All-in-Wonder® 9800 PRO, now includes several new additions.
All-in-Wonder 9600XT delivers more multimedia features for customers
by offering the fastest Radeon® 9600 series performance
with a graphics engine clocked at 525 MHz and 128 MB of memory
running at 650 MHz. At USD$299, this new multimedia solution
includes FM-on-Demand™ to receive and record favorite FM
radio stations, dual VGA monitor support, the second generation
and completely redesigned Remote Wonder™ II, integrated
DVD authoring and burning, and Multimedia Center™ 8.8.
Designed as the value-oriented multimedia video card for everyone,
All-in-Wonder 9600, available at USD$199, offers full-featured
DirectX® 9 hardware support without any sacrifice in performance
to play the most graphically-demanding computer games. This mainstream
All-in-Wonder includes Remote Wonder, dual VGA monitor support
for twice the screen content, integrated DVD burning that saves
time in storing multimedia content, and Multimedia Center 8.8
that features support for MPEG-4 for high quality video capture,
Eazylook™, and EazyConnect™ for home networked
access to multimedia content.
As a first for Wal-Mart customers in the United States, All-in-Wonder
9200 is now available at a manufacturer’s suggested retail
price of USD$149. Customers will be able to enjoy the great affordable
features of this multimedia video card: great game play with
Radeon® 9200 graphics; easy home movie video editing with
connectivity for VCRs and camcorders; Multimedia Center 8.8 with
EazyLook to create a true large screen home theater experience;
and, easy-to-use DVD burning to archive multimedia content. All-in-Wonder
9200 also supports Remote Wonder, the ATI remote control for
easy access to computer programs, available as a specially priced
upgrade.
“ATI is offering affordable All-in-Wonder products to
a wide range of consumers including students and families as
well as new technology followers,” said Godfrey Cheng,
Director of Marketing, Multimedia Products, ATI Technologies
Inc. “With these new products, ATI is bringing high end
features to the mass market, including the DirectX 9 enabled
All-in-Wonder 9600 at an amazing $199. These new All-in-Wonder
offerings give consumers the combination of amazing multimedia
PC capabilities with ATI’s award-winning graphics and continue
the ‘family’ tradition as the best digital multimedia
PC upgrade.”
Copyright
2004 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 2003 revenues
in excess of US $1.3 billion, ATI has more than 2,200 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:
Trevor Campbell, Manager, Porter Novelli Canada, at (416) 422-7202 or trevor.campbell@porternovelli.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
