Can iMac have an external video source hooked up?

Thinking of getting new iMac with its 24" monitor of goodness. But currently I have a 19" HD LCD tv with an HD cable box and a PC hooked up to it. Am I able to do anything similar with a new iMac? Use the screeen to watch TV on?

There is no "obvious way" because an iMac is a computer, not a display, and there is no video input.
You can run Windows on the iMac, either using Boot Camp or a virtual machine program such as VMware Fusion, so that you don't need to use the laptop PC when you are at your iMac. Then, use network file sharing to transfer or sync data between the iMac and laptop PC. In fact, if there is a Mac OS X equivalent program, don't run Windows at all when you are at your iMac, and just transfer or sync the user data between the two computers.
You can use screen sharing to remote control the laptop PC from the iMac, which will simulate using the iMac's screen and keyboard to control the laptop. There is no direct feature to do this between Windows and Mac OS X, but there are free VNC applications. Run a VNC server on the laptop. Connect the laptop and iMac to a local network. Run a VNC client on the iMac, to view the laptop's screen in a window on the iMac's screen (or in full screen mode) and control it with the keyboard/mouse. On the iMac side, this is a good VNC client app
http://www.jinx.de/JollysFastVNC.html
The limitation of screen sharing is screen refresh speed. If the networking speed is fast, it will work reasonably well, but it will never be as fast as a real video output connection to a real display.

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