Introduction:

The PowerColor Theater 550 Pro home-entertainment system combines the latest technology such as hardware-accelerated 12-bit decoder video processing engine with a high-end 3D comb filter that significantly enhances fine-detail to video by adding luminance and chrominance to composite video and TV tuner signals to eliminate color bleeding and other artifacting that would otherwise cause degradation in the image quality in prior standards.

Sporting features like hardware noise reduction, worldwide audio support, real time DVD quality MPEG-2 encoding, user's will enjoy the low-power, low cost, high end video solution from PowerColor. The Theater 550 Pro comes with 16MB DDR memory for ultra fast buffering, IF demodulation and loads of other features are packed in a ultra slim single chip design. There are lot's of other goodies and functionality this card is capable of, let's take a look at what this product can do...

- 12-bit Video decoder, 2-3D Comb Filter - Hardware Noise Reduction - Digital 12-bit IF demod - First Retail PCI Express TV chip - Unparalleled integration - Video decoder - Worldwide stereo audio support - IF demodulation - DVD quality MPEG-2 encoder - PCI & PCI Express x1bus interfaces

• 750-Mhz CPU or faster
• 128MB RAM or above
• Microsoft Windows XP, 2000
• Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition
• One available PCI slot (PCI version)
• One available PCI-E slot (PCI-E version)
• CD-ROM/RW/DVD/RW drive
• Graphics card with DirectX 8.1 or above
• Sound card
• Cable TV signal or amplified antenna