"My biggest reason for purchasing a Visiontek video card had always been the lifetime warranty, a rarity out of all the ATI partners."

Quite what real guarantee a lifetime warranty gives is probably something which in not enforceable and therefore just deliberate spin.

Sylvie, ...[re It was written on Friday]

Don't worry about it, although you are most probably not anyway.

Proper Preparation and Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance Permitting Protocol Positioning with a Sane Disregard of Haste.

* Some would Tell you that Nothing just Happens and Everything is therefore Planned, but IT is a Big Concept to embrace well enough to Enable Lead.

My biggest reason for purchasing a Visiontek video card had always been the lifetime warranty, a rarity out of all the ATI partners.

However, now that XFX joins the lifetime bandwagon (make that double), they have suddenly lost that edge they once held. Yet, they still charge massively for their reference cooled cards. At the same time, XFX cards backed by "more warranty" actually cost less especially through rebate programs. I am not surprised why Visiontek would fall to its knees. Probably their legs got shot off by all other vendors who actually price their products competitively.

Gee, this was reported about on Firday.

But you talk about it like you just found out today.

You also used quotes from the story that originally announced it.

Nice reporting there

I would expect no more from you.

I wonder if and how long this comment will stay up...

How much money did ATI spend on developing the Theater 550 chip.
A chip that was capable of decoding all the worlds television standards. Visiontek decided that they would only make a card that worked in markets that used the NTSC standard (namely Nth America).
How much of a saving this moderfication in using less components saved them is anyones guess.
Narrow mindedness in not selling poducts to a global market can only lead to a deminishing customer base and ultimatly lower profits.