ATI Technologies TV Wonder 550, User Manual

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System Requirements 1
Getting Started
Your TV Wonder™ 550 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 TV Wonder™ 550 uses hardware MPEG encoding and
digital audio.
The TV Wonder™ 550 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.
System Requirements
Hardware • Intel® Pentium® 4 or Celeron®, AMD Athlon® or
Sempron® (or compatible) CPU.
• Sound card and speakers.
• 128 MB of system memory; 256 MB or more is
recommended for best performance.
• Motherboard with free PCI or PCIe X1 slot (as
appropriate).
• CD-ROM drive (for installation software).
• An ATI Radeon® 9600 or newer graphics card is
recommended for optimal display output quality.
• Cable TV signal or amplified antenna.
Operating
System • Windows® XP Media Center Edition® 2005.
• Windows® XP (Professional or Home, Service Pack 2).
Monitor • High-resolution MultiSync or multi-frequency monitors or
any other type of VGA monitor.
• Digital flat-panel (DFP) displays or digital CRT display.