Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Xtend HD 5570 TV, the new card-quot; handyman-quot; Sapphire

Sapphire Technology has announced the new Radeon HD 5570 Xtend TV, a dedicated graphics card for multimedia home systems and platforms HTPC and Media Center. The most striking aspect of this product in the availability of a TV tuner DVB-T tuner, particularly where they can see and record TV programs in the clear.

In itself this is not a novelty, in fact, until a few years ago, the supply of video cards with integrated tuner was pretty fed. But it has been quite a long time since the last version of "All In Wonder ATI and alternatives with tuner and GPU affiancanti. Sapphire therefore proposes, in a modern version of a multimedia video card, in the broadest sense of the term, which is able to ensure optimum flexibility in the field of audio / video playback, SD and HD recording and digital content.

Xtend Radeon HD 5570 TV is made with a fairly compact PCB, interfaces to the system via the PCI Express x16 bus and incorporates a buffer memory 1 GB GDDR5. In addition to the built-in tuner are standard HDMI and DVI digital outputs. To speed up the TV signal decoder, this card uses the technologies and FlexiTV FlexiStream Mirics, so you can use the system Accelerated Parallel Processing (accelerated video transcoding and rendering) on-chip graphics card HD 5570.

The viewing and recording TV signal will be possible with great fluidity, as well as playback of streaming over the Internet. Sapphire Xtend allows the viewing of TV programs with direct flow through the Internet and on a one-to-one, without blocking the availability and without requiring any license.

As for the reception and video playback, XtendTV Radeon HD 5570 offers more than just a tuner. FlexiStream through the program you can transform your PC into a media server for streaming of TV signal. Users who connect remotely using Xtend TV client can then view the television, all without installing additional receivers TV on their PC.

FlexiTV uses the PC processor for demodulation and is capable of receiving terrestrial TV and radio around the world. In addition, this software takes care of reformatting, real-time IP streaming of live or recorded TV programs. Radeon HD 5570 graphics engine incorporates a XtendTV compatible with DirectX 11, with instructions DirectCompute 11 and the enhanced hardware tessellation.

The HD video playback is smooth and detailed, thanks to the integrated UVD decoder and the ability to accelerate Blu-ray and HD-DVD, based on the H.264 and VC-1. The card features HDMI 1.3a with support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master.

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