The past two years or so has been good for the Home Theater PC market. Never before have we come so close to total convergence of the PC and Home Theater setups. Back in 1996 or so when convergence was attempted by various PC manufacturers such as Phillips, Gateway, and Compaq, their attempts weren’t too successful. The problem back then was the high costs of the systems. Gateway’s Destination XTV was one of the popular models that came with either 27” or 32” CRT television and carried a price in the $2000 range while Phillips had their high end Marantz Preamp coupled with a computer called the DVX8000. The thing was the systems were nothing more then expensive DVD players that allowed you to surf the internet on your TV.
sudhan
Apr 21, 2004, 07:51 PM
