NVIDIA Will Not Support Outdated Bus Standard
by Ilya Gavrichenkov 03/04/2008 - reposted here on 3/7/08
While AMD calls for its partners not to give up the support of formerly popular AGP 8x graphics interface, Nvidia sticks to completely different strategy. Now you can still find latest generation AGP graphics cards on ATI Radeon chips, while Nvidia fans with outdated platforms have to be happy with GeForce 7 series solutions only. Moreover, there will be no new AGP 8x graphics cards on Nvidia chips, according to the company officials. Sapphire Company has recently started shipping Radeon HD 3850 graphics cards with AGP 8x interface. These graphics solutions have proven quite successful: they can really speed up the gaming performance of older platforms. And although there are only Windows XP drivers available these days, AMD promises to release Windows Vista drivers, too. So, AMD that has been focusing mostly on mainstream and essential segments lately strengthens its positions among the older platforms owners.
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Friday, March 7, 2008
Circuit City Offers Recent HD DVD Hardware Owners Refund, Blu-ray Trade
By Marcus Yam March 7, 2008
Consumers who bought high-definition movie hardware during the final weeks of HD DVD’s fight against Blu-ray Disc should have known what they were getting into. As they say, caveat emptor – or “let the buyer beware.” Circuit City, however, is stretching out its hands to recent HD DVD hardware for a way out of the now dead-end format. Gizmodo copied what it believes to be post from an internal Circuit City forum detailing the end of HD DVD, which states that consumers may return their hardware for store credit. The posting reads: “We do not want to upset our valued customers. For this special circumstance, we are happy to offer an exchange for a Blu-ray player (customer plays any difference in purchase price) - even if it has been several months since the customer made their HD DVD player purchase. If the customer does not want a Blu-ray player, we can issue a gift card refund for their original purchase price. For products purchased in the last 30 days, handle as usual.”
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Consumers who bought high-definition movie hardware during the final weeks of HD DVD’s fight against Blu-ray Disc should have known what they were getting into. As they say, caveat emptor – or “let the buyer beware.” Circuit City, however, is stretching out its hands to recent HD DVD hardware for a way out of the now dead-end format. Gizmodo copied what it believes to be post from an internal Circuit City forum detailing the end of HD DVD, which states that consumers may return their hardware for store credit. The posting reads: “We do not want to upset our valued customers. For this special circumstance, we are happy to offer an exchange for a Blu-ray player (customer plays any difference in purchase price) - even if it has been several months since the customer made their HD DVD player purchase. If the customer does not want a Blu-ray player, we can issue a gift card refund for their original purchase price. For products purchased in the last 30 days, handle as usual.”
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