ATI Technologies 550 manual Getting Started

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CHAPTER 1:

Getting Started

Your THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card is an advanced, analog TV tuner card that represents a vast improvement in both video and audio quality over previous PC TV tuner products. The THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card uses hardware MPEG encoding and digital audio.

The THEATER™ 550 PRO TV tuner card provides the following features:

•NTSC or PAL analog video decoding with motion-adaptive 3D comb filtering (depending on region).

•Worldwide, analog, stereo audio decoding with digital output to the PC.

•FM radio.

•MPEG-1 Layer II, 2-channel audio encoding.

•High quality MPEG-2 video encoder.

•Hardware noise reduction.

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