The HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7780n Desktop PC ($1,600 direct, $2,020 with 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor) is not for the passive channel-surfing consumer. Rather, it's a high-end multimedia PC for the video enthusiast who wants to do something serious with all the camcorder footage he or she has taken over the years. The m7780n has an HDTV tuner and HD DVD drive (playback only), so you can enjoy watching HD content through several means as much as you do creating and editing it. This system lives in both the video-playback and video-creation worlds, though not quite perfectly in either.