NVIDIA ANNOUNCED THE Personal Cinema last year, and a lot of people let out a sigh of relief. Finally, some capable competition for the integrated digital video graphics crown had arrived. Up until the Personal Cinema's launch, there really wasn't a competent competitor for ATI's All-In-Wonder series of graphics cards (well, unless you count Matrox). These cards were based off various Radeon cores. They integrated TV tuners for couch potatoes and a slew of video input and output ports for video editing, and NVIDIA didn't have anything even close.

But ATI has a head start several years long. ATI has a pretty good product in the DV graphics card arena, their Radeon 8500DV. NVIDIA, on the other hand, still has its inaugural Personal Cinema in Visiontek's Xtasy Everything 5594. Though both target roughly the same audiences, the cards and philosophies behind them couldn't be more different. Can NVIDIA match ATI's All-In-Wonder experience with its first shot at the market? Let's find out.