After all, your monitor already has the necessary resolution, and a PC is well suited for HDTV's interactive capabilities. Instead, the company licenses its software to hardware manufacturers. Ravisent announced this week that all of its players shipped since mid-1999 support the various USA HDTV formats defined by the Advanced Television Standards Committee. For the time being, nothing.
Player software is a small part of the HDTV PC requirements.
Probably not before summer. There will also be upgrade kits containing a card and all of the necessary software, including the player. In other words, having an HDTV-ready player now is totally irrelevant. They might, for instance, include animation-intensive Web pages. PCs, designed from the ground up to be interactive and always equipped with keyboards and mice, will make the perfect tools for such high-bandwidth multimedia.