Microsoft TV Technologies System Requirements

This topic applies to Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional only.

The minimum system requirements for running digital TV applications are greater than the minimum requirements for Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. A digital TV application requires the following:

• BDA-compatible digital TV tuner
• 600MHz CPU with 128MB RAM
• DirectX Video Acceleration-compatible video card w/32MB VRAM
• DirectX VA-compatible MPEG2 decoder

Further requirements for the video card are described in VMR System Requirements