AMD today expanded The Ultimate Visual Experience for North America with the ATI All-In-Wonder HD, combining award-winning ATI Radeon Premium graphics and ATI TV Wonder HD tuner technology card in one PCI Express 2.0 solution. As the newest multimedia powerhouse to join the long line of All-In-Wonder offerings, ATI All-in-Wonder HD transforms the PC into a highly immersive digital video recorder for HDTV and analog TV, plus expands the realm of exceptional gaming with cinematic HD graphics for mainstream PCs. The ATI All-In-Wonder HD has a manufacturers suggested retail price (MSRP) of $199.

ATI All-in-Wonder HD prepares you for brilliant TV, sharp images and smooth playback on a wide variety of HDTVs and displays. With support for Microsoft DirectX 10.1, gamers can play the top HD games with life-like 3D graphics, stunning realism, and great shading effects. Full support for PCI Express 2.0 technology allows for twice the throughput of current PCI Express 1.0 cards, which means gamers will be ready for demanding graphic applications. ATI All-in-Wonder HD further expands TV viewing capabilities with support for Windows Media Center bundled with Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate editions, as well as Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. The ATI All-in-Wonder HD complements media-rich AMD LIVE! PCs.

NVIDIA has been generating a lot of buzz as of late with all of the news regarding their PhysX implementation on GeForce 9800 and GTX 200 series GPUs.  An interesting, and related, tid-bit arrived in our in-box this morning that’s sure to illicit some curious responses, and wouldn’t you know it, it has to do with ATI-accelerated PhysX… Unfortunately, we don’t have many details regarding the screenshot above.  What it is supposed to show is PhysX being accelerated on a Radeon HD 3800 GPU (reportedly

Lawrence Roberts is just another guy with the title:” Inventor of the Internet” in news articles. According to Wikipedia, he’s the father of networking through data packets. And he’s turned his attention to everyone’s favorite data packet topic: Peer-to-Peer filesharing. He’s established a company called Anagran, and says their devices can sort out which file transfers on the tubes are P2P, and — you guessed it — can throttle them in favor of other, more “high-priority” traffic.At Structure 08, he laid out

You’ll recall last week NVIDIA announced that its 177.39 drivers would provide PhysX support on the GeForce 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, and GTX 260/280 cards. You’ll also probably recall the big dust-up over whether or not NVIDIA was cheating in terms of optimizations for various benchmarks. Whether or not you believe that (read their response here), for end users, the real question is: “where are the drivers? I want to try them.” NVIDIA has posted beta versions of 177.39 on its site. Just remember, they’re beta, so

The computer mouse must rank among the most useful things ever invented. Like all great inventions, it’s pretty well impossible to even calculate the value that it’s brought to society. But many more ways to point at something on a pixellated screen have been developed since the mouse was born back in the sixties. According to an analyst at Gartner, these new methods of pointing and clicking will make the mouse lose its dominance — perhaps in as few as two to four years. … next-generation operating systems

Since Microsoft recently announced it plans to release Windows 7 in 2010, speculation has begun that many businesses will simply skip Windows Vista.  And now it appears Microsoft’s BFF, Intel, is making that choice. Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said. The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested

Back as far as August 2006, news had broke that AMD planned to discontinue the ATI All-In-Wonder series of graphics cards.  If you’re unfamiliar with them, All-In-Wonders combined a standard GPU with extensive VIVO and TV-Tuning functionality on a single board.For most of their lifespan, All-In-Wonders were “the” all in one (pardon the pun) cards to own.  But once Windows Vista hit, they lost much of their luster due to incompatibilities with Vista’s media center software and the tuning / capture devices

Palit just announced the Palit Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Armed with AMDs fastest and most advanced unified architecture to date, the Palit RadeonTM HD 4870 delivers an unbelievably immersive gaming experience without the high performance price tag. The Palit RadeonTM HD 4870 offers the best performance per dollar in the world! Be sure to check out our review on the HIS Radeon HD 4870 graphics card here.

The Palit Radeon HD 4870 graphics card is equipped with 800 stream processors running 750 MHz and 512 MB of GDDR5 memory operating at 3.6 GHz on a 256-bit bus delivering unprecedented 115.2 GB/s of bandwidth. The Palit RadeonTM HD 4870 offers 1.2 TeraFLOP of compute power for 160 Watts of power. More compute power equates to more realism in games, faster transcoding of media files and amazing video playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies.

Sprint Mogul users may not have long to wait for Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional.  A file has recently been appeared at various sites which is supposed to be the finalized Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional ROM update for Sprint’s HTC Mogul, and although there’s been no official word from Sprint or HTC on the matter, when a ROM update starts floating around on online forums, there’s usually not much time left until official release.  As will all unofficial updates, install at your own risk.  We’ll keep you posted.

There’s no shortage of drama in the Desktop Graphics industry, with bitter rivals NVIDIA and AMD-ATI taking shots at each other at any opportunity.  Though HotHardware Management heritage is of Italian descent and thus not shy of taking on a passionate debate, we generally like to stick to the facts, rather than dabble in rumor hearsay or mudslinging.  There just aren’t enough hours in the day to go down the proverbial rat-hole all that often.  However, when the occasion presented itself to dig