Power Color - 550 Theater Pro card - for anyone else looking for PCI-E TV card that may be better than the current batch

http://www.power-color.com/550pro.htm

Not out yet but it looks exactly like the ATI elite as you would
expect it to since its using the 550 chip. They list two versions
PCI - E and PCI.

So how cares about ATI as long as PC comes out with one.
Now to wait for a review and see the prices .
$149 MSRP for the ATI if the PC sells lower , at a reasonable cost and
the 550 really does give it some noticeable improvement over the
common Conexant based cards then itll be the card to get.


http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...mlld19JRD04NzE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...eater_550_pro/

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 02:38:19 GMT, "
wrote:

http://www.power-color.com/550pro.htm

Not out yet but it looks exactly like the ATI elite as you would
expect it to since its using the 550 chip. They list two versions
PCI - E and PCI.

So how cares about ATI as long as PC comes out with one.
Now to wait for a review and see the prices .
$149 MSRP for the ATI if the PC sells lower , at a reasonable cost and
the 550 really does give it some noticeable improvement over the
common Conexant based cards then itll be the card to get.


http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...mlld19JRD04NzE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09...eater_550_pro/

Strange the lack of widespread info on this. Ive since tracked down
more and more articles. Sapphire, Infotek, Gigabyte, TUL etc are all
planning cards. In fact I found some posts who have it already.

And DUHHHHH.........see that its selling at NEWEGG for $79 already in
stock the sapphire version.

The feedback from the poster at one site seems to be mixed at best. No
startling improvement. The one review at newegg seems to be - if you
dont have a hardware encoder card get it but if you do dont bother
upgrading to it. Sounds lukewarm at best but then he also states its
"40%" better than the e-home wonder card. That card sites say uses the
same chip as the Hauppauge 150.

So the conflicting feedback seems to be - its much better buts its NOT
much better than the other cards. Hmmmmm.