Gisteren las je al over de aankondiging van nVidia's Personal Cinema-systeem, vandaag kun je bij GamePC alvast eerste indrukken van dit product vinden. De set bestaat uit een GeForce2 MX (of hoger) videokaart, een break-out box en uiteraard een datakabel om het zaakje aan te sluiten. Het gelige kastje heeft alle audio- en videoaansluitingen aan boord en bevat ook een geïntegreerde TV-tuner. Hiermee is het o.a. mogelijk om 16-kanalen tegelijk op je scherm weer te geven, alhoewel de werking ervan nog wat tweaking nodig had. Toch de lijken de prestaties en de mogelijkheden van de Personal Cinema-set erg veelbelovend, en de $50 meerprijs is ook niet al te duur:
Nvidia also had a demonstration where they tossed in a DVD of Crouching Tiger : Hidden Dragon on the Personal Cinema. This particular model was based of a GeForce2 MX 400, which was doing the DVD decoding. From what I saw, it looked and sounded fantastic, with both video and audio being passed through the Personal Cinema box.
The Personal Cinema can also do basic video editing as well, but I wasn't able to see it in action. Most likely the software is still going through final revisions before getting shipped out. If Nvidia can nail down some very simple editing functions with an easy to figure out interface, they'll have a very popular product on their hands.
Only a few manufacturers are starting off making Personal Cinema retail boxes, although more are soon to follow. The launching companies are Compro and Visiontek in the U.S, and Creative Labs over in Europe. Personal Cinema cards will cost about fifty bucks more than their OEM-equivalent cards, which we don't think is too terrible. You can expect to see Personal Cinema retail boxes hit store shelves sometime within the next month.
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