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Full integrated 128-bit VGA and 2D engine
High-speed 128-bit Windows GUI acceleration
Hardware acceleration for Bresenham line draw, 2-edge polygon fill, scissor/rectangle clippers and full 256 ROPs
Internal 256-bit datapath
Source and destination chroma-key for DirectDraw
Color expansion and single-cycle block writes
8, 16, 24(packed), and 32-bit modes
Complete FM stereo tuner capabilities, including Seek and Scan
CD-quality FM stereo with dbx
125 channel cable-ready TV tuning capacity, including video capture, playback and recording
MPEG 2 encoding via software codec
Full motion video support via DirectDraw/DirectSound
Support for NTSC, PAL and SECAM formats, as well as S-Video and Composite In/Out
DVD playback support via Intervideo WinDVD
Zoom, skin selection, and channel surf functions
Support for closed-caption and teletext with PAL versions
Inside the Voodoo3 3500 retail box you'll find a driver disk, a full copy of Unreal (along with a coupon for Unreal Tournament), a small installation manual, a Custom I/O Pod and the V3 3500 card itself. The I/O Pod is by far the most interesting piece of the puzzle, especially for fans of 3dfx. The I/O Pod is essentially a multimedia connection box (similar to the Matrox Marvel) with inputs and outputs for Left/Right Audio, Composite Video and S-Video. This allows many A/V devices to be hooked up to the Voodoo3 3500 without making the back of the card an absolute mess of cables and wires. If you're wondering if cable TV can be hooked up, don't worry, the Voodoo3 3500 has coaxial cable inputs for both cable/antenna TV and FM radio on the back of the card. For cable the interface is perfect, but you might need an adapter for FM stereo unless you have access through your cable company.
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