Convergence of PC + TV
29Sep03
TVs with ethernet, and Dell selling LCD TVs. It’s all coming together finally, and it’s good for us!
TVs with ethernet, and Dell selling LCD TVs. It’s all coming together finally, and it’s good for us!
Along similar (but slightly more traditional) lines, there are a couple of companies that are now making video tuners for LCDs (sort of like a stand-alone tuner card for your PC)–they let you use your monitor as a TV, and have computer pass-through so there’s no recabling to mess with when you want to use your computer. My little sister just got a Viewsonic NextVision N4 (http://www.viewsonic.com/products/video_box_nextvisionn4.htm) and loves it–despite a bad review on Amazon… I’m waiting for my ATI tuner card (with TiVo-like capabilities) to arrive from Amazon any day now… :-)