Matrox Graphics Inc. today announced that the Matrox Marvel G450 eTV, the most comprehensive all-in-one graphics card for consumers in the home entertainment and SOHO PC markets, is now available from Matrox's online store at http://www.shopmatrox.com.

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The US$230 ESP Marvel G450 eTV gives users the power to do it all, from watching timeshifted TV on the PC to uploading streaming video on the Web. In addition, the Marvel G450 eTV features stereo TV tuning, MPEG2 video capture and playback, S-video and composite input/output, high-quality DVD playback, hardware acceleration for 2D/3D applications, and Matrox's revolutionary DualHead technology.

The Marvel G450 eTV transforms traditional PCs into personal video recorders as the first PC graphics card to offer timeshifting with picture-in-picture, enabling users to pause a live broadcast, and later continue watching from where they left off. With picture-in-picture, users can view a timeshifted program in the primary window while the smaller secondary window displays a live program being aired on another channel. What's more, the new Matrox PC-VCR 2.0 software remote control acts just like a traditional hardware remote with the ability to record TV programs, preset audio and video parameters and change channels.

Combining DualHead with a software package that includes Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 for the Marvel G450 eTV, home users can easily edit video footage into home movies by adding titles, transitions, voice-overs and music, while simultaneously viewing the changes full-screen on TV. In addition, the Marvel G450 eTV also bundles the Matrox PC-VCR 2.0, Matrox Software DVD Player, Ulead(R) Photo Explorer(TM) 6.0, closed captioning (North America), and a teletext browser (Europe). The Marvel G450 eTV supports Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98, Windows 2000, or Windows Millennium Edition.