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Watts up, Doc? They certainly are, thanks to the increased power demands of today’s supersized flat-screen TVs. And that worries energy sentinels

Streaming media players that relay Internet video content to TVs are becoming increasingly common–but ones that do it well and reliably for HDTV over a wireless network are less so. That’s why the Roku HD-XR is a real gem: For $130 (as of 11/24/09), it delivers high-definition content from Netflix,..

The HP Pavilion Elite E9120f is built around a 2.6GHz Phenom II X4-910 processor–one of AMD’s newer chips.

The Polywell Poly P5500C power desktop PC has a 2.93GHz Intel Core i7 870 processor. That isn’t the fastest CPU on the charts, but it’s swift enough to help the system come within 7 percent of the category’s speed leader, the Xi MTower PCIe 965

Q: Is there a difference in quality between HDMI and VGA when plugging a laptop into an HDTV?