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High-Res True Color: Many of the cards we tested support resolutions up to 1600 by 1200 pixels, some with visually comfortable high refresh rates. Integrated Micro Solutions' Twin Turbo 128P8 ( shown below ; note the array of memory chips) and Matro x's Millennium have the memory (8 MB) and logic to support that high resolution with 24-bit color (for a palette of over 16 million colors).
What's on Tonight?: ATI's 3D Xpression+ PC2TV has both composite video and S-Video outputs, so you can display software on a large-screen TV -- a nice demo setup for a conference room because you can use the same display for both computer and VCR sources. To compensate for the lower resolution on a TV, the card uses antialiasing to keep the image sharp.
With the card's PC2TV feature you can also record computer graphics output to a VCR. This provides an inexpensive and convenient way to distribute multimedia presentations and training materials.

Twin Turbo 128P8
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Watch Your Software from The Comfy Chair
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