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Add-In Video Cards Give New Life To TV-PC Concept Devices provide personal computers with many of the same features as a TiVo-style set-top box.(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)(COMPUTERS MADE PLAIN)

Investor's Business Daily

| June 06, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Investor's Business Daily, Inc. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Ted Needleman

Once again, "convergence" is a hot buzzword in the computer industry.

It's a word we've heard many times before. And each time it reappears, it seems to mean something slightly different.

Today, the term generally applies to the new video capabilities of personal computers, especially the way in which they're becoming more like televisions. It also refers to the use of streaming video on hand-held devices and cell phones.

Actually, TV on your PC isn't all that new. You may remember Gateway Inc.'s Destination computer, a PC with an integrated television. The Destination, equipped with a Pentium II processor, came with …

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