Sebastian Macdougall de Matrox a envoyé un communiqué de presse concernant la carte vidéo Marvel G450 eTV de Matrox qui a commencée à être expédiée. Cela signifie que la carte peut être achetée en ligne sur le site de Matrox à cette adresse http://shopmatrox.com pour 230,00 $US (soit environ 1700 FF HT).

Voici le communiqué de Matrox :

"The Matrox Marvel G450 eTV now shippingUnique features turn home PC into PVR and multi-media powerhouse

Montreal, Canada, April 17 -- 2001—Matrox graphics Inc. today announced that the Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, the most comprehensive all-in-one graphics card for consumers in the home entertainment and SOHO PC markets, is now available from Matroxs online store at http://www.shopmatrox.com.

The US$230 ESP Marvel G450 eTV gives users the power to do it all, from watching timeshifted TV on the PC to uploading streaming video on the Web. In addition to timeshifting and Web video, the Marvel G450 eTV rounds off its all-in-one suite with stereo TV tuning, MPEG2 video capture and playback, S-video and composite input/output, high-quality DVD playback, hardware acceleration for 2D/3D applications, and Matroxs revolutionary DualHead® display technology.

PCs become Personal Video RecordersThe Marvel G450 eTV is the first PC graphics card on the market to offer timeshifting with picture-in-picture. Timeshifting enables users to pause a live broadcast at any time, and then continue watching later without rewinding through recorded video or waiting until the show has ended. The Matrox PC-VCR software remote, loaded with many user-friendly features, makes it easy for users to navigate through timeshifted footage and fast-forward through commercials in order to catch up to real-time programming. The Timeshift Progress Bar, for example, facilitates this by displaying how many minutes the recorded footage."

En résumé, avec cette carte, on peut avoir la télévision sur son PC, une accélération 2D/3D révolutionnaire (c'est eux qui le disent...) et l'affichage du DualHead. Cette carte prend en charge le MPEG2 et est équipée d'entrées/sorties TV S-vidéo et composite.
Pour le reste, ben... ils vont pas dire qu'elle n'est pas bien...