Bij EuroGamer is een review verschenen over de VoodooTV FM, een TV/Radio kaart geproduceerd door 3dfx. Deze kaart is de eerste stap van 3dfx om meer te maken dan videokaarten alleen, en volgens de reviewer is het geen slechte poging. De kaart maakt gebruik van de bekende Conexant 878A chip, en zal dus qua features weinig verschillen van de TV/Radio kaarten van Pinnacle en Hauppauge. Samen met goede software en een vriendschappelijke prijs maakt dit de kaart een prima product wat voorlopig als enig nadeel de beschikbaarheid heeft:
VoodooTV FM is a solid state "tuner-on-a-chip", which should provide clearer pictures and faster channel searches than old fashioned analogue tuners. Certainly it was already looking quietly impressive when we saw it in action at the back of 3dfx's stand at the ECTS computer games trade show in London last month, and playback quality was generally excellent. You can watch TV in both full screen and windowed modes, with full software teletext and support for up to 125 channels, which should be enough even for the Americans.
As the name suggests, the card also includes a built-in FM radio, which is controlled using an on-screen WinAMP-style utility which features full scan and seek functions, as well as support for a suitably large number of preset channels. And because all of this data is transferred through the PCI bus, there are no pass-through cables to worry about. The card also comes with a rather funky and well-built remote control, so you don't even have to touch your mouse or get up off your couch to change channels or adjust the volume. Which is nice...
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