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| Page 1 of 9 | Author: Kai Ping
Date of review: 19-January-2000
Type Of Review: Videocards |
Introduction
What do you get when you take a 3-D graphics card, marinate it with video editing facilities and garnish with a TV tuner? You get all the ingredients for a rather long review. Grab your popcorn and strap yourself in.
Nice “peek-a-boo” box
Let’s skip the commercials and cut to the chase.
Key Features
1. 2D/3D engine
- API support: Direct3D, OpenGL
- Core Frequency: 125MHz
- Memory Frequency: 166MHz
- Fillrate: 250 million pixels per second
- Polygon throughput: 8 million polygons per second
- AGP support:AGP2x, AGP4x
- Graphics Memory: 16MB SGRAM
- RAMDAC: 300 MHz
- Bus Architecture: 256-bit dual bus/128-bit external bus to video memory
- Single cycle multitexturing
- Vibrant Colour Quality2
- DualHead display technology
- Max resolution: 2048x1536
- Z-buffer support: 16,32-bit or 24-bit plus 8-bit stencil buffer
- Anti-aliasing: Vector, edge and full scene
- Filtering: Bilinear, Trilinear, Anisotropic
- Fog: Vertex, Table
- Single, Double, Triple Buffering
- Environmental Bump Mapping
- Alpha blending
- Specular highlighting
- True colour ARGB and Gouraud shading
- Hardware dithering including dithering of LUT textures
2. Video Editing
- Full resolution, full frame-rate video capture and playback with hardware-MJPEG compression/ decompression (704x576 PAL and 704x480 NTSC @ 30 fps)
- Offline software MJPEG to MPEG1/MPEG2 conversion
3. DVD Playback Support
4. TV Tuner
Inventory
Here’s what came in the box:
All the stuff you will find in the box
- 1x Matrox Marvel G400-TV Video Card
- 1x Quick installation guide
- 1x Manual
- 1x Marvel connector box (Breakout Box)
- 4x CD Software Bundle:
- Drivers
- PC-VCR Remote
- Ligos LSX MPEG2 transcoder ME
- Matrox Software DVD Player
- Teletext software
- Avid Cinema 1.0
- Ulead Systems Photo Express Version 2.0
- Game bundle: Wild Metal Country, Tonic Trouble
- 1x Marvel Cable
- 2x composite (RCA) audio/video cable
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