Tuesday, December 02, 2003

HDTV 4 UR PC!
ATI now does HDTV with its Theater 313 receiver chip. "ATI THEATER 313 incorporates a universal QPSK (quadrature phase shift keying) forward data channel (FDC) receiver and a BTSC/Dual FM demodulator and decoder. The THEATER 313 is configurable to operate in either the ITU-J.83B/SCTE DVS-031 compliant 64 QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) or 256 QAM modes used by digital cable systems, the NTSC analog system, or the ATSC compliant 8VSB (vestigal sideband) mode used in digital terrestrial broadcasting.

Just look at all that jargon and vidspeak!! Could it fail to be a hit? (Bottom line, nVidia has the game market pretty much sewed up. Matrox has dropped the ball in consumer video and is concentrating on professional video solutions. ATI sees an opportunity and is making a dive for it.)
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