Two of the companies, Ravisent Technologies and Conexant Systems, announced a partnership on Monday to develop HDTV solutions.

CNN: Coming Attraction: HDTV on your PC

Conexant's Fusion 878A chip will convert incoming video to streaming format and send it along the system's PCI bus.

CNN: Coming Attraction: HDTV on your PC

Our negativity isn't stopping one CopperGate Communications from following its heart, however, as it just announced this week that it would be taking the business off of Conexant Systems' hands.

ENGADGET: CopperGate buys HomePlug AV Powerline business HD