WinHEC this week means lots of hardware news...NVIDIA issued a couple of press releases today, first announcing their support for TeraLogic's DTVPC system (allowing HDTV to be viewed on your PC) and second announcing their plans to integrate "transform and lighting" processes into their products. What the heck does that mean? Here's an excerpt:

By moving T&L calculations from the CPU to the graphics processor, there are more cycles available for modeling physics, artificial intelligence, character behavior and game play; areas that are severely lacking in modern applications. The benefit is two-fold, a world that both looks and behaves realistically.

In non-NVIDIA news, new reference drivers are available on Rendition's downloads page for Verite V2x00 based cards. These are Windows 98 native, and fully DirectX 6 compliant. Thanks Assassin. Finally, there's an interview with Dan Wood on GA-Source talking with Matrox' Senior product manager about the recently-announced additions to their upcoming G400 line.