ATi Radeon AIW 8500dv Review
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Today 3dXtreme takes a look at the ATi Radeon AIW 8500dv video card. Featuring the gaming core of the Radeon8500 with the All-In-Wonder features that have set ATi a notch above the rest.
"If you want a card that has top notch graphics and great gaming coupled with a TV tuner and further expandability you can't beat it. With the ATi All-In-Wonder 8500dv ATi has delivered as promised."
After more than two years of bitter legal battles, the labels asked a federal court last month for a monthlong time-out to concentrate on a settlement with the once-controversial start-up. Both sides said at the time they were close to finding common ground.
But that legal "stay" expired Sunday without the two sides reaching agreement. Both sides said Tuesday that the litigation would continue without a renewal of the time-out period.
"Given the current state of settlement negotiations, it didn't make sense for the record companies to agree to Napster's request to keep the litigation on hold," said Recording Industry Association of America General Counsel Cary Sherman.
Napster said it hadn't asked the courts for an extension, but that it did plan to continue settlement talks.
"Napster is continuing our settlement and licensing discussions with the major labels and we remain confident that agreements can be reached in the near term," Napster Chief Executive Konrad Hilbers said in a statement.
A representative of the RIAA, the trade group spearheading the lawsuit on behalf of the music labels, could not immediately be reached.
Napster has been negotiating with each of the Big Five record labels, hoping both for an end to the lawsuit, which closed its original file-swapping service, and for the rights to distribute major-label content through its new subscription service.
That's no small goal, even for companies not facing a lawsuit potentially worth billions of dollars. No other music start-up has been able to win licenses from all five of the major labels. Hilbers has said that he would consider launching without all five, but has said he expects to settle with all of them.