[Paul C. Jesup]

On Ms. Diaz, a regular on People magazine's list of the world's most beautiful, Mr. Swann writes, "the magazine's editors -- and most of the Western world -- do not have high-definition TV. If they did, they would see that Diaz's face is spotted with small pockmarks, the unfortunate consequence of a longtime acne problem.

Well yes and no. Today's standard computer monitors can handle the resolution of HDTV without a problem. By the way, some computer video cards are designed so that they can use an HDTV instead of a computer monitor if a person wanted to do that.

This is kind of ironic, everyone in the entertainment industry have been harping for more clearer television and when they get it that, they get a little more than they asked for.

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By the way, some computer video cards are designed so that they can use an HDTV instead of a computer monitor if a person wanted to do that.

You're probably thinking of the DVI interface - most HDTV monitors already have a standard 15-pin VGA port attached, letting you use it as a computer monitor with any ordinary graphics card. But, of course, that's an analog link, versus the DVI port, which is digital all the way through...