Is there any kind of transparent view for watching movies ..

Lakesidezx · External Since: Feb 01, 2007 Posts: 111

I had my ATi tv tuner card that used to allow me to use their "thru-view"
technology so that I could play a movie while I was doing other work and set
a transparancy for how it is displayed on my screen, which allowed me to see
through the movie to my work underneath.

Apparently vista doesn't support my ATi tv tuner card and I guess without it
I can't use the thru-view option. So is there a way of doing this with
windows media center or some other options for doing this?

Thanks,

Ron K. · External Since: Sep 23, 2006 Posts: 164

Keep checking ATI's website. I never had much luck with the ATI's tuners, you
may wish to try something else....

"Lakesidezx" wrote:

> I had my ATi tv tuner card that used to allow me to use their "thru-view"
> technology so that I could play a movie while I was doing other work and set
> a transparancy for how it is displayed on my screen, which allowed me to see
> through the movie to my work underneath.
>
> Apparently vista doesn't support my ATi tv tuner card and I guess without it
> I can't use the thru-view option. So is there a way of doing this with
> windows media center or some other options for doing this?
>
> Thanks,
>

Lakesidezx · External Since: Feb 01, 2007 Posts: 111

Yup been doing that, but my guess is that my TV tuner is not one of the ones
supported by Vista hence they probably wont be able to get it to work with
vista nor would they want to since it would mean buying another tv tuner
(perhaps another ATi tuner) that works with vista.

But thanks for the response,

"Ron K." <RonK.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6A9BD1C0-A236-4118-AB01-F9378D10E127@microsoft.com...
> Keep checking ATI's website. I never had much luck with the ATI's tuners,
> you
> may wish to try something else....
>
> "Lakesidezx" wrote:
>
>> I had my ATi tv tuner card that used to allow me to use their "thru-view"
>> technology so that I could play a movie while I was doing other work and
>> set
>> a transparancy for how it is displayed on my screen, which allowed me to
>> see
>> through the movie to my work underneath.
>>
>> Apparently vista doesn't support my ATi tv tuner card and I guess without
>> it
>> I can't use the thru-view option. So is there a way of doing this with
>> windows media center or some other options for doing this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>