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ATI tech support sucks (updated)

Submitted by Mark on April 13, 2007 - 12:12pm.

UPDATE: I contacted Mike from XLR8yourMac.com, and he was kind enough to post a shoutout on his site asking if anyone had a copy of the Radeon 9200 driver for Mac OS 9. Within minutes, he recieved a handful of replies from people with copies, eager to help. The driver worked great. Thanks Mike!

If anyone out there needs a copy, I've mirrored it here.

But let the record show that ATI, to this date, was unwilling to help.
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Why there's no reason the Wii can't play DVDs...

Submitted by Mark on November 30, 2006 - 11:49pm.

So I'll probably get a Wii this Christmas. I've played with one at school, and it's amazingly cool. Crap that rhymed. Unintentional.

Anyways, I've heard something about the Wii that kind of irritated me...namely the fact that it can't play DVDs.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161611.html
When Nintendo dished out its final specifications for the Wii, there seemed to be one glaring omission--DVD playback. With the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 touting built-in multimedia players, the Wii seemed to be only next-generation console unable to provide movie playback.

Now, less than a week before the Wii is even on shelves for the first time, it appears that those final specifications weren't so final after all. After weeks of speculation and Internet reports, it has been confirmed that the Wii will eventually get DVD playback.

Sonic Solutions, makers of the popular Roxio CD- and DVD-burning software, today announced that it has been chosen by Nintendo to provide "high-quality DVD movie viewing to a future version" of the Wii. Sonic Solutions says the new version of the Wii is expected in "the latter half of 2007."

What the heck.

There is absolutely no reason why they can't do it in a software update. The Wii has plenty of horsepower to do DVD decoding without any additional hardware. And it already has a remote. It's really not that hard to do...it's just a 720x480 multiplexed MPEG2 stream usually with AC3 or PCM for the audio. Heck, if my iBook from 2001 can play DVDs just fine with a 500MHz G3 and ATI Rage Pro 8MB using software decoding then a Wii should be no problem....
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