ATI introduced a processor that will be on TV tuner cards to be give up in July by Asus , Sapphire , MSI , Powercolor and Visiontek . It offers a few notable improvements over its predecessor , the 550 Pro , include well TV reception and in high spirits picture quality , and it gives you PVR capableness , too , all on one chip . The 650 is also pretty smart in the compression department , where it can now handle DivX , WMV9 and H.264 , as well as the more - unwashed MPEG2 and MPEG4 codecs . It ’s also able-bodied to tune up both analog and digital TV .
This looks like an incremental step , but it ’s well - indorse by the card maker . But a chip like this is n’t going to do you much good if you have cable TV or satellite TV . These cards are still stick in the over - the - air broadcast mode , which is not all that useful for us . Now if these baby could somehow support CableCard , then we ’ll lecture . But still , perhaps TV watching is all headed toward downloads , codecs , files , and — shall we say it — BitTorrent , anyway .
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