HP's Visual Fidelity home entertainment swarm

We're likely to see a whole mess of home entertainment related gear the next couple days, and HP's kicking us off with a whole slew of gear. They've got a new line of microdisplay rear-projection Pavilion TVs due late this summer in 58 and 65-inch 1080p, as well as 50 and 58-inch 720p resolutions (both progressive formats? Nice!); 42 and 50-inch Pavilion plasma EDTVs; 26, 32, and 37-inch Pavilion LCD TVs—and apparently all their new digital TVs will roll with CableCARD, too. The bigger news, however, is that their z555 and z557 high-def Digital Entertainment Center PCs are finally coming out (we saw the z555 at CES); we can expect a full complement of three tuners (one ATSC, two NTSC), a 250GB and two 300GB drives, respectively, for some serious Windows Media Center 2005 goodness.

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