The Matrox Marvel G450 eTV Now Shipping Unique Features Turn Home PC Into PVR and Multi-media Powerhouse.Business Editors MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2001 Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced that the Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, the most comprehensive all-in-one graphics card for consumers in the home entertainment and SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. PC markets, is now available from Matrox's online store at http://www.shopmatrox.com. The US$230 ESP (1) (Enhanced Service Provider) An organization that adds value to basic telephone service by offering such features as call-forwarding, call-detailing and protocol conversion. Marvel G450 eTV gives users the power to do it all, from watching timeshifted TV on the PC to uploading streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. on the Web. In addition, the Marvel G450 eTV features stereo TV tuning, MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2 video capture and playback, S-video and composite input/output, high-quality DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. playback, hardware acceleration for 2D/3D applications, and Matrox's revolutionary DualHead(R) technology. The Marvel G450 eTV transforms traditional PCs into personal video recorders as the first PC graphics card to offer timeshifting with picture-in-picture, enabling users to pause a live broadcast, and later continue watching from where they left off. With picture-in-picture, users can view a timeshifted program in the primary window while the smaller secondary window displays a live program being aired on another channel. What's more, the new Matrox PC-VCR 2.0 software remote control acts just like a traditional hardware remote with the ability to record TV programs, preset audio and video parameters and change channels. Combining DualHead with a software package that includes Ulead(R) VideoStudio(TM) 4.0 for the Marvel G450 eTV, home users can easily edit video footage into home movies by adding titles, transitions, voice-overs and music, while simultaneously viewing the changes full-screen on TV. In addition, the Marvel G450 eTV also bundles the Matrox PC-VCR 2.0, Matrox Software DVD Player, Ulead(R) Photo Explorer(TM) 6.0, closed captioning (North America), and a teletext teletext: see videotex. A broadcasting service that transmits text to a TV set that has a teletext decoder. It uses the vertical blanking interval of the TV signal (black line between frames when vertical hold is not adjusted) to transmit about a hundred browser (Europe). The Marvel G450 eTV supports Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98, Windows 2000, or Windows Millennium Edition See Windows ME. (operating system) Windows Millennium Edition - (Windows ME) An update of Microsoft Windows 98, released in 2000. ME included updates of packaged software and new software such as Windows Media Player 7, Windows Movie Maker. . For the full release, follow this link: http://www.matrox.com/mga/media_center/press_rel/2001/marvg450_shipping.cfm Matrox Graphics Inc. and Matrox are registered trademarks or trademarks of Matrox Graphics Inc. and/or Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd. Other company, product and service names and/or logos indicated above may be trademarks or service marks of such other companies. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion