Until now, you either bought a high performance graphics card for extreme PC games, or you bought an All-In-Wonder video card to turn the home PC into a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) for TiVo-like multi-functionality (record TV direct to hard drive, pause live TV, remote control, camcorder capture, etc.). Or, you had two different cards handling the divergent tasks.

Now, the All-In-Wonder 2006 Edition takes the company's respectable, gamer-grade Radeon 9600 graphics card, doubles the onboard memory (now with 256 MB), includes a TV tuner and the classic, "Wonder"-ous Media Center technology (including "ThruView," which lets you work while watching TV in a translucent window at the same time), buffs it all up and puts it all-in-one.

It's about three steps up from the last generation All-In-Wonder, but still at that ever-tantalizing, consumer-friendly price point.

Of course, if you're going to get serious, you can kick it up a gigantic notch with the more pricey but pleasantly powerful All-in-Wonder X800 XT, which maxes out at a definitively high resolution of 2048 x 1536 (@ 75Hz) and boasts video memory doubled again at 256MB. Now you're talking.
 

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