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And Chris Lanier, a student at the University of Houston, uses his network-enabled Xbox to link his living room TV to his office computer, which he taps for Web offerings and for archived video.
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Mr. Lanier in Houston, for instance, uses a 37-inch Panasonic TV that displays signals in the 720p format, which is short of the highest definition.A higher-resolution set is ,not worth it for that screen size,, he said.
,As soon as you get up to the larger screen size, then it becomes a benefit depending on how close you are to the TV,, he said. ,Based on how far I sit from the TV, the benefits aren,t going to be seen by my eyes.,
One big advantage of the open-ended PC platform is its adaptability to third-party products.Hauppauge, for example, makes a $99 HDTV tuner that converts broadcast HDTV signals into PC files that will play on Windows Media Center, where they can be watched later.
While many welcome this flexibility, it can also complicate matters.Mr. Lanier, for instance, began with a full PC in his living room, but moved it back to his office and replaced it with the simplified interface provided by his Xbox.