MMC9.0 and MulTView
A quick page on the latest iteration of Multimedia Center and MulTView. Multimedia Center is the software brains behind the All-In-Wonder technologies, integrating the TV-Tuner and PVR functionality, the FM radio tuner, DVD and VCD players, a CD and general multimedia file player and Gemstar's TV guide software (if applicable to your region).A single, hideable, sidebar gives quicklaunch access to each part of MMC, with that functionality exposed via the RemoteWonder too.
I won't cover everything that MMC can do, instead you can find my previous MMC commentary from a previous article here. MMC9.0's improvements versus the outgoing 8.x version run to automatic launch of EAZYLOOK when Windows starts, some MPEG4 video exporting options and the usual raft of bugfixing and feature tweaking.
MulTView
MulTView is the combination of an All-In-Wonder graphics card and a separate TV Wonder tuner to provide dual TV input sources. It enables you to do picture-in-picture, record or watch two TV channels at the same time and much more, all from a single instance of MMC. You're doing nothing more than augmenting a second tuner to the existing tuner the AIW provides, but it enables a bunch of extra features.Future AIW and TV Wonder products will extend the tuning remit to digital and HDTV signals. Digital TV tuning is something current AIW hardware should be doing, given that other digital TV tuners with excellent PVR software and FM tuners, that also do MPEG4, are under £100 now. It's a shame MMC can't augment other TV tuners built by other companies. But the lack of a standard TV tuner API in modern operating systems isn't ATI's fault.
