[H]ardNews 6th Edition

AIW 9000 Pro:

Do you want to watch TV on your computer and enjoy all of those "TIVO" features without spending an arm and a leg and still have some 3D gaming ability? ViperLair has a review of what may be the answer to your question.

TV capturing quality was the best out of our small test group by a fairly large margin, and as such TV will be clear for viewing and capturing at high resolutions. TV capturing through the SVHS port is also very nice on the AiW 9000 Pro, looking better than the reference image, taken straight from the video itself. One point is that everyone's favorite copy protection makes an appearance in this card, covering almost the entire video making capturing of many things, even home movies that much harder.

ATI Question:

Ethan Smith wrote in and asked why there are a lot of "newer products" on this ATI Discontinued Products list.

The simple fact of the matter is that all of these cards already have replacements being released at their price points. As new products roll out, the others will hit the graveyard almost as fast. That is of course one reasons we have urged many of you to buy that 9500 Pro before they "go away". It is of course being replaced with the 9600 Pro that in our opinion is not up to 9500 Pro performance overall.

Now while that might not seem to make any sense at all, these companies must have tight control on how they segment their products by scaling performance and features. Remember how we saw the GFTi 4400 cannibalize the 4600 market and then the subsequent 4200 doing the same thing? The product performance across the three cards was very close together but we saw huge difference in cost. I think this was a lesson to both ATI and NVIDIA to define their product scaling a bit more severely. Doing it this way can translate into more revenue for both companies. And at the end of the day, both of them are all about the Benjamins.

Got Hack?:

Joe Alpert points out that you possibly will soon know if the folks with all your information gave it up due to security issues.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Embarrassed businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under a proposed law if hackers break into computers and steal some types of personal information, including Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and credit card information.

5900U Vs. 9800P:

It is all in German, but the graphs are all you guys look at anyway....admit it.

Divine Bird:

While no written reply was recorded, The Devine Maker of the Universe was recently captured in this photo by the Hubble Space Telescope. Earlier The Maker is reported as saying, "Those Hubble guys are nothing but trashy space Paparazzi." Fully blame Quentin Dement.