The battle for your living-room real estate rages on. Internet-connected HDTVs featuring on-demand movies, real-time weather, news and more are available from most TV manufacturers.

While watching a TV show, you can track an eBay auction or tweet on Twitter in a separate window on the screen. Weather updates run unobtrusively along the bottom of your high-definition TV display. Movies, increasingly available in HD, are rented, streamed and available to watch almost instantly, all with the push of a button on the TV remote control.

Internet HDTVs are still new and technology advancements, particularly in the area of HD video streaming, are sure to expand programming in the months ahead.

The days of a laptop on the couch and an assortment of dusty boxes underneath the TV may be coming to an end.

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