Quote Originally Posted by Eastcoasthandle View Post
But my card reads Theater not Xilleon. Or did I miss it on the card somewhere?
No..Theater/Xilleon are teh same technology, a UVD that provides copy-protection schemes/connectivity to digital devices.

The X240S & X240H are the first chips to integrate all the major components necessary for manufacturers to build digital integrated televisions at lower costs. The Xilleon 240S TV-on-Chip™ includes a Digital Front End capable of demodulating and decoding 8VSB for ATSC terrestrial broadcasts or 64/256 QAM for digital cable, a HD/SD capable MPEG video and audio decoder, a NTSC video decoder featuring a 3D comb filter, and a powerful MIPS® CPU (central processing unit). The X240S supports both digital and analog SD (Standard Definition) outputs.
the Xilleon is of course much more advanced.

This field proven chip includes an analog front end (AFE), Advanced Physical layer (PHY), Programmable DOCSIS 2.0 media access control (MAC), and an ARM 9 communications processor. Embedded interfaces include Ethernet 10/100 MAC/PHY, MII, USB 1.1 MAC/PHY, Silicon or Can Tuner interfaces as well as an I2C master for controlling additional AMD physical layer devices.
Both devices are "systems on a chip" featuring differnt functionality, altohugh the base "tech design" is the same, providing SECURE connectivity.

This is why UVD using no system resources(CPU) is such a big deal...at least to me...with it's included processor(which made me think this card would have "clock domains" such as nV's cards do), all processing tasks are done on the card; decode, encode, and post processing. All the cpu does is provide connectivity between the media device and the vidcard.

What this means is that like nV's G8x I/O chip, ATi's R600 should have either had this integrated within the gpu, or on a seperate device, as nV does. "Missing Mul", anyone?

The Theater chip you think of IS an input/out chip...and possibly what's alluded to in the "UVD", but "Theater 2xx" devices do not provide hardware decoding...nor do they provide HDTV connectivity...this chip is merely for the s-video/composite input/outputs.