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ATI INTRODUCES THE All-in-Wonder128
- Rage128
powered version of award winning All-in-Wonder board is first to provide
MPEG-2 encoding/decoding for high quality video recording capabilities
ATI today announced the All-in-Wonder 128 graphics and multimedia board.
Powered by the Rage 128 chip and with 16MB memory, the All-in-Wonder
128 offers an excellent 2D and 3D graphics accelerator, and advanced
MPEG-2 encoding, allowing video to be compressed and recorded directly
onto hard disk or DVD storage media. Other functions include TV tuning
with Digital VCR capabilities, video compression technology and video
capture features. It is the only graphics and multimedia board on the
market designed not only for the highest performance gaming on the PC's
monitor and/or television, but also to support the latest PC/TV Convergence
and multimedia creation applications for PC's in the home, as well as
those in education and small office-home office environments. The All-in-Wonder
128 will be avilable in late June, priced £159 inc VAT.
"An All-in-Wonder
128 is not only a superb graphics card for games and other 3D applications,
but offers real time MPEG-2 encoding at a fraction of the price of existing
systems," said Simon Greer, UK Country Manager, ATI. "For the OEM and
the retail customer, an All-in-Wonder 128 is the only solution that
will provide the best of the most popular multimedia features, in a
single board, and at a mainstream price."
New RAGE
128 GL Chip provides the world's best graphics acceleration
An All-in-Wonder 128 produces the highest graphics performance standards
as the result of the RAGE 128 GL chip. With its 128-bit memory interface
and dual pipe-line architecture, RAGE 128 gives amazing graphics acceleration
at an affordable price.
New and
improved ATI DVD Player Version 1.2 provides stunning picture quality
Through built-in DVD hardware and ATI's industry-leading ATI DVD Player
software, All-in-Wonder 128 offers the highest quality and most complete
DVD decoding technology available today. It sets a new standard in MPEG-2
DVD playback with full-frame, full-screen DVD video for a true multimedia
experience on your PC or attached television in the home via the All-in-Wonder
128's video output.
The associated
ATI DVD Player (1.2) uses iDCT (inverse Discrete Cosine Transform) and
Motion Compensation hardware within the RAGE 128 chip to achieve highest
quality DVD playback using a minimum of available CPU power. It enables
any Pentium 200MMX class CPU or greater. It has received certification
from Dolby Laboratories and through ATI's RAGE Theater or ImpacTV2 TV-out
chips, supports Macrovision 7 copy protection for legal display of protected
DVD content. Both are required for full implementation of DVD systems
that connect to TV sets. The ATI DVD Player is Microsoft certified for
Windows 95 and Windows 98. In addition, support for 6 region codes and
19 languages is provided.
New application
software from ATI provides Multimedia, Video and TV tuning features
All-in-Wonder 128 delivers enhanced TV on PC with such features as closed
captioning capture, video capture, instant replay and even Digital VCR
included. The All-in-Wonder 128 is DTV Ready, once a DTV tuner card
is added to the system.
It also
includes ATI's Digital VCR functionality, where a PC can be programmed
to record favorite TV shows just like a conventional VCR. Digital VCR
leverages the ability of modern CPUs to compress video on-the-fly, as
it's viewed, rendering dedicated hardware for video compression and
decompression obsolete. Also, digitized video from camcorders or VHS
tape can be affordably saved to today's recordable CDs and recordable
DVD-RAM.
Instant
replay --First of its kind functionality puts the viewer in control
The All-In-Wonder 128's video capture technology is also at the heart
of the instant replay function. At any time while viewing a program,
the previous two second to 2 minutes (depending on system memory size)
can be replayed instantly, giving the viewer a capability once the exclusive
domain of the program producer. Instant replay lets the viewer shift
back in time during their TV shows.
TV Magazine
- Transcripts with images saved to file for later reading
All-in-Wonder 128's "smart" TV tuner not only allows users to watch
TV through their PCs, its advanced technology also allows for such applications
as still and motion video capture and capturing closed caption transcripts.
These functions have been combined to produce the TV Magazine feature,
where closed captioning transcripts, along with periodic images from
the screen can be saved to file to produce a printed, magazine-format
version of the television broadcast.
Corporate
Profile
ATI Technologies Inc., the world's largest supplier of 3D graphics and
multimedia technology, designs, manufactures and markets innovative
and award-winning multimedia solutions and graphics components for personal
computers. An ISO 9002 company, ATI is the world's leading supplier
of video and 2D/3D graphics accelerators to OEM and retail customers.
Founded in l985, ATI employs more than 1,300 people at headquarters
in Thornhill, Ontario, and in offices in the United States, Germany,
France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Barbados, Malaysia, Hong Kong and
Japan. ATI is a public company whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock
Exchange.
