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To: Michael who wrote (7993)	11/19/1997 11:35:00 AM
From: John Nasser	Read Replies (1) of 14577

Michael: I just found this lil' article too. Altough it may be old. The following is out of an PC MAG article I believe? Better TV than Ever Dept.: Finally, after years and years, it seems that people are seriously using their computers as functional TV sets, utilizing the various TV tuner/cards on the market. In fact, ATi has added a tuner to one of its display cards. But most TV pictures do not take full advantage of the high resolution of the monitors. Enter Yves Faroudja, the genius behind a variety of video inventions. A few years ago he showed the National Association of Broadcasters something called Super NTSC, a cheap modification that did line doubling and improved the NTSC signal to the point where it mimicked analog HDTV. This was during the peak of the HDTV hype. But none of this went anywhere, and Faroudja was content to license Hi-8 and 6-mm digital camcorder circuits to the likes of Sony. Well, I still remember seeing what this circuit accomplished, and I've never forgotten it. It's stunning. So, finally, Faroudja licenses the design to S3 so it can be used on progressive-scan monitors. Expect to see some incredibly sharp TV on your computer soon! We should see some sort of product by the first quarter of 1998. But let me tell you, a smart cookie could do worse than grab the eventual S3 chip and make a box for regular TVs.

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