Immersive Introduces The World's First PC Video Processing Card Featuring DCDi

31-Jul-02

Immersive, Inc. announced the introduction of the first video processor card for the PC to feature Genesis Microchip's DCDiô video processing. The card should appeal to the home theater PC (HTPC) user.The HOLO3DGRAPHô has been designed to accept a video signal from any DVD player, PVR, satellite receiver, cable box, or other standard-definition source, deinterlace and process it, and pass the result to the PC's graphics card for scaling to any HDTV or computer resolution it supports. The HOLO3DGRAPH works in conjunction with any high-quality AGP graphics card, such as those based on the ATI Radeonô or nVidia GeForceô graphics chips, to turn your PC into a formidable video processor.The HOLO3DGRAPH is a full-length PCI board that accepts composite, S-video, serial digital interface (SDI), and component video inputs. By using the SDI input and a graphics card that provides a DVI output, the HOLO3DGRAPH can provide an all-digital processing chain. Combining this with a digital source and a display that accepts DVI input, conversions to analog signals and back can be completely avoided.The HOLO3DGRAPH user interface provides a user-friendly cascading menu system, which is designed to be used from either keyboard or remote control. The StreamZapô remote control is included for this purpose. The user interface offers complete control over picture controls, resolutions, aspect ratio, and video processing parameters, which are stored on a per-input basis. The HOLO3DGRAPH software has built-in support for the popular Girder IR control program, for those who seek more sophistication that the software included with the StreamZap remote offers.Finally, the HOLO3DGRAPH has been specifically designed to be compatible with the open source dScaler project. This project aims to advance the state-of-the-art in software-based deinterlacing and picture improvement algorithms on the PC. By offering a very flexible internal architecture, the HOLO3DGRAPH aims to provide high-quality hardware-based deinterlacing, and an architecture that supports development and refinement of video processing algorithms by those contributing to the dScaler project.The design of HOLO3DGRAPH also anticipates Microsoft's release of DirectX 9.0 later this year. DirectX 9.0 offers additional video processing choices by leveraging capabilities that are already built into many of the newer graphics cards, using Microsoft's DxVA technology.The HOLO3DGRAPH will be available in late August from a number of dealers.

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