ATI Technologies THEATER 550 - Manual (Page 6)

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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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