Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Sapphire HD 5570 XtendTV, the return of the AIW

Once upon a time the AIW (All-In-Wonder) video cards based on ATI Radeon devoted to multimedia and equipped with TV tuners. Sapphire takes that philosophy today by proposing a series XtendTV. The first model to debut is called HD 5570 XtendTV and is an entry-level solution based on AMD GPU Redwood compatible with DirectX11 API.

The card uses an active cooling system - which occupies one slot on the mainboard - is equipped with TV-tuner, and supports the advanced capabilities of streaming servers and video editing. Ideal location to set up a home theater is complete, the Sapphire HD 5570 XtendTV offers DVI video outputs and HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master and has an additional mini-USB port.

Here's the official press release: SAPPHIRE Launches XtendTV Watch your favorite TV shows anywhere in the world! World's leading supplier of graphics cards, SAPPHIRE Technology has just launched a new TV tuner card with an innovative feature: SAPPHIRE HD 5570 XtendTV. XtendTV SAPPHIRE HD 5570 graphics card is a single slot PCI-Express 1GB GDDR5 memory and DVI and HDMI outputs, with programmable built-in TV tuner.

Connected to standard TV antenna signal, receives and decodes all television stations to air and radio *. As a standard TV tuner, users can watch TV from the host PC via a Media Center and record, store and play back arbitrary programs. XtendTV offers much more. Installing the software on your PC FlexiStream which is mounted graphics card turns your computer into a streaming server to which users can view the television at home anywhere in the world, using XtendTV client on a remote PC or laptop * *.

Based on the technologies and FlexiTV FlexiStream Mirics, the solution SAPPHIRE XtendTV implements the ability to Accelerated Parallel Processing (stream processing) chip on the HD 5570 graphics card to decode fluently and uniform standard TV signals and compress the stream for viewing by Internet.

No need to license or IP! With Xtend SAPPHIRE watch TV programs on your PC streamed over the Internet and on a one-to-one, anywhere, without blocking the availability and without requiring any license. SAPPHIRE HD 5570 HD 5570 graphics card is a SAPPHIRE HD 5000 series graphics driver supported by Catalyst DirectX 11 WHQL certificate of AMD.

These cards are equipped with the most advanced features to support Microsoft DirectX 11, including 11 DirectCompute instructions, hardware tessellation, and communication with the CPU multi-threaded system. They also support the Accelerated Parallel Processing for acceleration of the supported applications such as video transcoding and rendering speed, by executing instructions directly on the GPU rather than the system CPU.

Ideal for multimedia applications, all boards of the SAPPHIRE HD 5570 series incorporate a decoder UVD (Unified Video Decoder) for the hardware accelerated decoding of content on Blu-ray ™ and HD DVD is codecs for H.264 and VC-1 Mpeg files, considerably reducing the workload on the CPU.

SAPPHIRE HD 5000 series in the UVD has been optimized for the simultaneous decoding of two streams HD video and display 1080p HD video in high quality mode with Windows Aero enabled. The card is equipped with HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master. Technology Mirics Mirics FlexiTV is a receiver of broadcast multi-standard personal computers and portable devices with a processor.

Using the PC processor for demodulation, it can receive any digital TV and radio standard, with the result of having a platform of highly optimized multi-standard reception. This allows maximum flexibility to the standard, and a single hardware design to receive terrestrial TV and radio around the world.

FlexiStream ™ is an extension of the innovative platform FlexiTV. FlexiStream FlexiTV enabled using a home server (such as a desktop PC) to the local reception, recording and viewing live broadcasts. The software then reformatting FlexiStream provides real-time IP streaming of TV programs live or previously recorded on a portable device with the software FlexiStream client, anywhere in the world.

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