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HP hopes to reach the living room

"Beyond the PC, a lot of people see the [cable] set-top box as the first consumer electronic device to embrace home networking technology," said Kurt Scherf, vice president of research at Parks Associates, a Dallas-based market research and consulting firm. "How many boxes are consumers willing to put up with?"

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