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New alliance to push for digital TV on PCs

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Coming to a PC in 2001 will be the ability to receive digital television

signals, as Intel, Microsoft and a dozen other leading high-tech companies

announced the formation of the PC DTV Promoters Group. The alliance will promote

digital-television broadcasting over personal computers.

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The PC DTV Promoters Group was announced at the start of Intel's annual

Developers' Conference in San Jose. Members of the group include ATI

Technologies, Broadlogic Network Technologies, Conexant Systems, Decisionmark,

Hauppauge Digital, iBlast, InterVideo, Pinnacle Systems, Ravisent Technologies,

SCM Microsystems and Wavexpress.

These and other companies will build everything from receiver cards and

software decoders to viewers and antenna-selection guides. The potential for DTV

access on PCs appear both real and vast. Already, two-thirds of American homes

can receive digital television signals today.

The group members say personal computers are the best way of receiving

enhanced digital broadcasting and likely to be the least expensive as most PCs

need little more than an additional add-on card. DTV sets in comparison cost

upwards of $800.

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