With the Marvel G450 eTV, Matrox is targeting both the home entertainment and web user market with a nod to the entry-level video editing market. The eTV comes equipped with a G450 and 32 MB of DDR memory. In addition to this, Matrox has also included a TV tuner as well as video in and out, which through an adapter cable allows for both S-video and composite In/Out.
Here is a general list of the G450 eTV's specifications.
- 0.18-micron technology
- 64-bit Double Data Rate (DDR) external bus to frame buffer memory
- Full AGP 4X device with multi-threaded bus mastering
- Support for AGP 1X, 2X and 4X
- 360 MHz Primary RAMDAC
- Integrated second RAMDAC
- Integrated TV encoder
- 3D Rendering Array Process architecture
- 32 MB frame buffer configurations supported
- 32-bit Z-buffer including 8-bit stencil buffer
- DVD & video playback
- Matrox DualHead TV Out
- MPEG-2 capture and playback
- S-video and composite video input /output
- Video Editing
- Timeshifting with picture-in-picture
- TV tuner with Personal Video Recorder
- Closed captioning (North America)
- Teletext browsing (Europe)