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kids might sit in front of a 17" screen and watch a movie but teenagers and adults just will not do it.....

There are two ways to counter this argument:

1. Computer monitors are often higher resolution than the highest-resolution broadcast HDTV standard. Hence their smaller size and higher cost. Some technophiles will only watch HD movies on their monitors, now.

2. Most mid- to high-end computer video cards come with S-video outputs; some come with component-video outputs; and you can get RF-output enabled cards as well. Likewise for the audio. Your computer becomes a very expensive DVD player for the few hours you're watching your movies. Then it goes back to being a very expensive calculator, telephone, mailbox, typewriter, and deck of cards.

Frankly, if DIG can pull this off, it might be the kick in the ass that the computer industry has been lacking over the past year. It could signal a new round of hardware upgrades, the way the proliferation of various types of online multimedia prompted everyone to trick-out their current machines.

--Blair
"I'm gonna get a lifetime subscription to George of the Jungle."