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Computer Companies Branch Out, Bringing High-Tech Gear to Consumers.

By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 10--LAS VEGAS -- The next DVD player you buy could be from Linksys, the computer networking company in Irvine. Your next telephone could come from its competitor, D-Link Systems in Fountain Valley. You can already buy a TV from Dell, the Texas computer company.

Computer companies have caught the consumer-electronics bug.

The businesses that used to make strictly computers and computer gear are moving into products for the living room, designed to work

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