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Media Center Graphics Card
One of the popular attempted 'convergence devices' of recent years is the media center PC. This can range from a computer with a normal monitor that can receive TV signals, to a central media server that can send movies to the main TV itself. A media center graphics card needs to be capable of outputting signals in a form with which TVs are likely to be compatible.
High Performance
These graphics cards are the last generation of DirectX 9 cards. While they still have good performance, they can not use the more modern rendering features of DirectX 10 in Windows Vista
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