ATI's DTV support in newest graphics chip to provide the low-cost, high quality option for watching the digital TV revolution
As with DVD, where PC-based DVD ROMs provide a great high volume complement to DVD consoles, DTV can be enabled through the PC, an implementation expected to quickly become one of many places where consumers will enjoy the benefits of digital television. (A February, 1998 estimate from industry anal...
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| Vydáno v: | PR Newswire s. 1 |
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PR Newswire Association LLC
02.11.1998
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| Shrnutí: | As with DVD, where PC-based DVD ROMs provide a great high volume complement to DVD consoles, DTV can be enabled through the PC, an implementation expected to quickly become one of many places where consumers will enjoy the benefits of digital television. (A February, 1998 estimate from industry analyst Mercury Research indicated DVD ROMs would prove to outship dedicated DVD consoles by a factor of 10 by the end of the year.) With a PC enabled with a graphics accelerator that can handle the HD0 DTV format MPEG decoding, and a low cost DTV receiver card, DTV viewing on the PC becomes an affordable option. A graphics add-in card and receiver board, with an approximate combined cost of well under $500, can provide the highest quality DTV viewing at a fraction of the several thousand dollars it costs for the new high definition digital TV sets and DTV tuner/decoder boxes. If a graphics accelerator board or set top device that features ATI's RAGE 128 chip and ATI's RAGE Theater(TM) video encode/decode (video in and video out) chip is used, DTV can be viewed on conventional TV sets, including large screen or wide screen TVs. This provides an opportunity to preserve the investment in those giant screen TVs. |
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