No idea how HDTV comes into the picture.

That's the beauty of HDTV: Its input/output format is VGA. An HDTV display is essentially a VGA display with a custom resolution.

With the proper cable (and a custom resolution set up in PowerStrip), I can plug my computer directly into my widescreen HDTV set and have the computer output display directly on the TV screen. There's now a whole group of people who are using a DVD-equipped computer as a Home Theater PC (HTPC) in this fashion. And there are some games (most notably, those based on the Quake3 engine) which have a custom screen size in their options menu, specifically for playing in widescreen HDTV mode.

Back to the original topic: One other possible solution not yet mentioned in this thread is to get a TV-tuner card for the PC. Those are cheap, common, and work pretty decently.

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Tony Fabris