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Gateway Rolls Out Media Center that Plugs into a TV.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003
By Mike Freeman, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 4--Hoping to bring computers into the family room, Gateway has unveiled a new media center that plugs into a television and looks more like a stereo receiver than a traditional desktop.
Called the Gateway 901 Media Center, the unconventional device aims to nudge ahead the convergence of computing and home entertainment a key part of money-losing Gateway's turnaround strategy.
As photos, music and movies go digital, Gateway and other computer makers are betting that people will use computers to store and manage that content making the machines the centerpiece of the digital home.
At the moment, though, that convergence hasn't happened. And it...
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