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To: Peter S. who wrote (13189)	6/10/1999 10:16:00 AM
From: joel3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Good catch!!! It appears that the Desktop TV is a new card to replace the STB TV tuner card. I like it! The Voodoo3 3500 TV features are below... Voodoo3™ 3500 TV Product Fact Sheet 16MB 2D/3D Accelerator and Advanced Multimedia System PRODUCT FEATURES -Voodoo3 Integrated 128-Bit 2D/3D and video accelerator -Real-Time MPEG-2 Video and Audio Capture -Intelligent TV - Tuner, Digital VCR and FM Tuner -VisualReality™ Multimedia control application w/ Skin Technology -8 Million Polygons per second peak processing -183MHz Core Clock Speed -2.93 GB per second peak bandwidth -16MB High-Speed SDRAM memory -AGP 2x and PCI Models Available. 3dfx.com

To: Peter S. who wrote (13189)	6/10/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: John Farrell	Respond to of 16960

Peter, Desktop TV is a product that STB developed well before the merger with 3dfx was even talked about. It's a stand alone PCI board that works with any existing graphics card that supports DirectDraw/DirectVideo (which means pretty much any graphics card made since 1995). STB has sold it as well as it's predecessor TV PCI and various other tuner products (the combo graphics card/TV Tuner used in Gateway's original Destination PCs) for many years. The 3500TV is just applying this same product incorporated onto the graphics card. This type of product was something STB had worked on before, in fact using the Nvidia Riva family of accellerators and nearly had a large win at Sony with it back in the Riva 128 days but lost that design win to one of ATI's All-In-Wonder products. Desktop TV is a multiple award winning product that has been shipping well before any of the Voodoo 3 products. It's just now under the 3dfx name as the merger is now complete.