Digital TV comes to computers.(a television equipped with an prototype DTV receiver by Intel Corp.)

Broadcasting & Cable, February, 1998 by Jessell, Harry A.

A computer with rabbit ears? That's right, and executives at WETA-TV Washington are using one to watch digital TV. Technicians at the noncommercial station's offices in suburban Arlington, Va., flipped the switch on the unusual TV last week. Making it possible is a computer card slipped into the back of the off-the-shelf computer alongside other more conventional computer components.

The card is a prototype DTV receiver built by Intel Corp., the Santa Clara, Calif., maker of computer processors. Equipped with the card and either a rooftop or a set-top TV antenna, the computer picks up the signal from WETA-TV's experimental DTV transmitter four miles away and displays it on the computer monitor. Intel also had a hand in the...

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