Sapphire to release Radeon 9700 All in Wonder

Sapphire will introduce the extremely popular ATI All in Wonder 9700 PRO cards any day now and will offer it for European market.

This completely changes ATI's old policy, when Hercules was the only one that was allowed to offer these cards and we reckon this means that these cards will be much more available than they used to be.

Sapphire will use The Beast brand. It includes a TV Tuner, remote, TV ins and outs and the fastest available DirectX 9 Radeon 9700 Pro powered card.

Sapphire will introduce all brands from Radeon 7500, 8500 and 9000 as Radeon All in Wonder products with prices to match each market segment.

The key difference compared to USA and Canadian shipping version is the Stereo TV tuner (PAL B/G/D/K/I and SECAM L/D/K) standard that we use in Europe with up to 125 channels, Teletext, Multistandard Autoscan and Time Shifting functions.

With Hydravision you will be able to have dual display support where your display can work simultaneously with your TV out. TV out has support for 1024x768 pixels.

As Sapphire is already into some serious retail stores such as everywhere available in Germany and Austria, including the giant Media Markt, it expects to do very well with these products.

Sapphire will be ready to ship these cards either late December or early January in retail and we are almost sure that the price will be €449 Euros for the 9700 AIW if it uses the same pricing nomenclature as ATI Canada does. µ