AIW Support in Vista?

hexHead® wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:53:32 -0500, "J. Clarke"
> <jclarke.usenet@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> DaveW wrote:
>>> Vista was written so poorly by Micro$oft that ATI and Nvidia are
>>> having a VERY hard time writing drivers for any of their
>>> moderately
>>> older video cards. Blame Microsoft for not consulting with anyone
>>> else when they were concocting the disaster known as Vista.
>>
>> If they can write drivers for their new boards then they can write
>> drivers for their old ones. Now ask yourself, who benefits from
>> making old video boards obsolete so that people have to buy new
>> ones?
>> Is it Microsoft or is it nvidia and ATI?
>>
>
> In my case, I had just bought an AIW 2006 PCI-E that was still on
> store shelves when Vista came out, so I'd hardly call it obselete.
> When I tried Vista, my TV tuner was bricked.
>
> It's not that ATI can't release drivers, they simply choose not to.
> Their canned answers are always "Buy a new card"
>
> Some might call this extortion.

The last AIW I bought was an 8800. That's when I gave up on them.
CableCard is made to order for ATI's approach to TV--keep everything
so secret that you can only use the hardware with ATI-provided
drivers.

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