14 DAY TRIAL // Looks like it is the recall season as also ATI initiated a massive recall campaign focused on its rather new TV Wonder 650 graphics card, which is silently disappearing from the North American retail market. The company has not issued a press release regarding the recall in which it should explain the reasons for this sudden move. However, several e-mails came at DailyTech in which the customers say that ATI's TV Wonder is disappearing from the shelves.
An ATI insider told DailyTech that: "The TV Wonder 650's have been removed and were mostly in Best Buy chains. They claimed to have 40 channels, but only about 30% to 50% of them worked."
"Retail chains such as Best Buy were the first to take the new cards off store shelves. A few readers have emailed DailyTech claiming that ATI TV Wonder 650 was already off the store floor this morning. One DailyTech reader emailed us to claim, ATI has also asked Best Buy stores to note to customers that a "similar product [will be released] in the near future." At this time, no word has come out on what the new product actually is, or if the defective card actually made its way to customers," writes Daily Tech.
The recall strategy seems to affect only the Best Buy store chain, but the editors fear it may as well hit others such as Fry's Electronics. Daily Tech also cited an ATI insider who said that indeed, something is going very wrong with the products, but the problem hasn't been revealed up until now.
On the other hand, it looks like only the ATI Wonder TV model 650 is recalled, as the 200 remains untouched on the shelves.