After turning their backs on Nvidia and joining the ATI camp like Gigabyte did, Hercules now announced their first Radeon 7500 based video card the: 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER 7500! Hercules is also said to have taken over the exclusive distribution rights of ATI products in Europe, meaning all built-by-ATI products will be Hercules products. This would explain the Radeon 8500 shortage in the UK reported earlier by TheInquirer La Gacilly, January 24th 2002. Hercules is delighted to announce today the release of 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500. This powerful all-in-one graphics and multimedia board is based on ATI ALL-IN-WONDER® RADEON? 7500 technology, which Hercules will market in retail and distribution channels in Europe through an Exclusive Agreement with ATI. 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500 is Hercules' reference platform for a 3D All-In-One solution dedicated to families and mainstream video lovers. "3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500 features make it a complete station for video enthusiasts, and a perfect solution for multimedia use. Radeon? 7500 3D acceleration gives power to PC gamers, the on-board TV tuner covers all European TV standards and its video editing power lets you enhance your personal movies" says Cedric Faucheux, Hercules Video Edition Product Manager. "With 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500, you add in your PC a powerful gaming platform, a real video editing studio and an advanced stereo TV set." Focused on fulfilling the most demanding expectations for gaming, video editing, TV and DVDs, 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500 provides: a strong 2D and 3D performance boost with a RADEON? 7500 GPU attached to 64MB DDR RAM, a video editing studio for - recording video from an analog camcorder in MPEG2 format,
- cutting rushes and adding titles with the included video edition suite,
- recording the edited movies on your VCR. a stereo TV tuner supporting all European TV standards (PAL BG/I/DK and Secam L/K),
DVD playback with hardware acceleration and advanced de-interlacing for crisp and smooth cinema display.
3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500 benefits from ATI Technologies' vast experience in ALL-IN-WONDER® technology and offers not only a versatile and powerful video editing solution, but also unrivalled user-friendliness thanks to ATI's focus on gathering all video functions into the ATI Multimedia Center software suite. 3D Prophet ALL-IN-WONDER® 7500 will be released in February. Source: Hercules