ATI's Theater 550 PRO Video Processor - A First Look Over Breakfast

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Hexus have thrown up their Preview of ATi's Theater 550 PRO video processor! Here's a snip.

A week or so ago, as I was in London to test ATI's Radeon X700 XT, I had the chance to spend some time with a few guys from ATI's Multimedia group. The Multimedia group are the guys and gals responsible for products such as Radeon All-In-Wonder and TV Wonder. With Theater 550 PRO, the latest iteration of their class-leading video processing ASICs, making its debut recently, the Multimedia guys were in town as part of their world tour, showing off the 550 PRO to journalists, OEMs, systems integrators and anyone with a vested technological or sales and marketing interest in the hardware that'd listen.

The Multimedia guys are passionate about their hardware, that much was evident as I spent more and more time talking to them about 550 PRO, TV Wonder, their USB products, All-In-Wonder, and also the competition (they're extremely knowledgeable about what NVIDIA and S3 do in the PC video processing space, almost as much as NVIDIA and S3 do themselves).

ATI's Theater 550 PRO Video Processor - A First Look Over