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http://www.techpowerup.com/?44471 Interesting, so now the TV Wonder 650 Combo USB has Mac supported drivers and an ATI tvPORTAL TV application. http://ati.amd.com/products/tvwonder650/usbmac/index.html (scroll down to see a screenshot)...

I figured I would post up a quick review for those interested. The install is basically a quick and easy plug-and-play, in this case on a Vista Home Premium system (see below). There was already a Vbox Cat’s Eye 164e Dual Hybrid tuner setup as dual analog. Since the TV Wonder 650 Combo USB’s...

http://www.gecube.com/products-02.php?prod_cat_pid=213&prod_cat_id=214 Interesting naming convention. They totally lost me with the nomenclature, its not that hard but I can see how some people will get confused. http://www.techpowerup.com/?42301

Little write-up on the new updated 650 and the new 600 products http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3124 http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3124&p=2 On the second page the launch date and prices for the new TV Wonder products are as follow: TV Wonder 650 Combo PCIe - Oct...

http://www.techpowerup.com/?41696 AMD/ATi sends word that a new Catalyst driver package (7.10) dubbed the “Shoot em up” driver will be released by the end of the week. Here is a partial list of performance improvements: Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Crossfire performance improves as much as 23%...

http://www.ocworkbench.com/news/news.php HD 2900 GT 256MB GDDR3 RAM, 600MHz Core, 1600MHz MEM, 240 Stream Processors, 256bit MEM interface, Dual Slot cooling interface, 6pin + 8pin standard power connector and so on.

How does a 750MHz core and 1800MHz MEM OC (from 600MHz core 1600MHz MEM) sound to you,….hummmm,….good,…..yes!?! http://pclab.pl/art28806.html Bring your favorite translator because the article is not in English. They used an HD 2900XT, 8800GTS 640MB, 8800GTS 320MB and 8600GTS card to benchmark...

Just curious. Anyone? Anyone?

http://www.laptoplogic.com/news/detail.php?id=2689 Interesting little USB stick tuner that was a long time coming giving the competition has had tuners like this out for some time! Comes with Catalyst Media Center (not sure what version) and so forth and so on,…

The HD 2600 actually looks good. http://it-review.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1419&Itemid=1 I would rather have an HD 2900XT 1GB DDR4 version though ;)

The HP Pavilion Media Center m8010y Series now seems to have the option for CableCard. Prices start at $929.99 but the ATI TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner is a $400 add on option,……..ouch! Considering the prices and the inherent DRM of such a configuration it’s not very palatable for many but...

Anyone try them? I upgraded my AIW X1900 to an eVGA 8800GTS 320MB on my Vista test system so I cannot try them yet. I’ll probably install the AIW in a MCE 2K5 system soon but I don’t want to upgrade it to Vista yet since it is a telecommuting work / entertainment PC. Perhaps I can just...

Hardwarezone.com has a very interesting HD DVD / BD hardware acceleration article where they contrasted the performance of an X1650XT to a 7600GT using a variety of HD DVD discs (MPEG-4 AVC, H.264, VC-1 encoded) with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 chip...

If you want the “Catalyst Media Center” install disc 180-v01118-100 that comes with the TV Wonder 200 and TV Wonder 650 you can now buy it direct from ATI / AMD at shop.ati.com for ~$12.99...

So as stated before, there will presumably be a free upgrade to ATI “Catalyst Media Center” soon for current users that will supposedly work in Vista as well as XP. Nonusers of “Catalyst Media Center” can presumably soon pay for the privilege (and I use the term in jest) of using this new...