ATI RAGE THEATER

Features

High Quality Integrated Video Encoder / Decoder with Digital Audio Support
ATI RAGE THEATER is a low cost, single chip, multi-standard video encoder/decoder that elevates video on the PC to the next level of integration, performance and affordability. Its advanced processing features are designed to generate a superior video out image, making it particularly suited for applications such as TV Web browsing. With its wide range of video inputs, multiple clock outputs, GPIO pins, I²S and S/PDIF audio, RAGE THEATER offers manufacturers the cost-cutting opportunity to substantially reduce the number of components in home-theatre and set-top-box appliances.

High Quality TV-out
RAGE THEATER video encoder converts images of Windows, Mac OS, DVD movies or games into all NTSC and PAL formats for TV viewing. The encoder uses programmable timing to generate high quality TV signals from graphics display modes ranging from 320x200 to 800x600. This provides full support of legacy VGA modes as well as the newer, low-resolution game modes required by Microsoft DirectX.

High Quality Video-in
RAGE THEATER's adaptive comb filter and advanced on-chip circuitry ensures that Composite and S-Video analog inputs in NTSC, PAL, and SECAM format are converted into high quality, low noise digital video for a sharper image. In addition, RAGE THEATER provides a full range of VBI services that includes Teletext, Closed Captioning, and Intercast.

Glueless Chip Level Interface
RAGE THEATER supports a glueless interface, through both ATI Multimedia Channel and VESA VIP 1.1 buses, to all existing and future ATI graphics controllers, on either a motherboard or an add-in graphics card.

Standard Compliance
RAGE THEATER complies with Macrovision (the analog copy-protection standard stipulated by the DVD industry) and CGMS-A (Copy Generation Management System - Analog).


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