We're not sure who let Yahoo! into Intel's party in San Francisco, but the two sure are getting along great. Much to the
chagrin of Mark Cuban, these two actually believe that there's a future in
internet TV, particularly if you force it down people's throats. Intel spent the bulk of its time talking up the Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly known as
Canmore), which would theoretically be installed within HDTVs and enable users to access internet-based content without the need for an additional set-top-box ('course, the STB is still optional). That's where Yahoo! comes in -- it's hoping that its Widget Channel will encourage users to utilize its services when watching re-runs or other lackluster material in order to get news, weather and other related information right on the living room set. Not that this is a
totally new concept, but these two surely have the power to push it one step further. Lots more information and pictures in the links below.
Update: It's
official... surprise!
Read - Intel / Yahoo preview plans for Widget Channel
Read - Images of the tech in action
Read - Gigabyte Intel box (first product to use the CE 3100)
posted Aug 20th 2008 3:30PM
I really dislike widgets.
Look alot like a wii, i wonder if intel stick with their intel chipset for this, if is then is fail, their chipset sux.
fail
Huh. I wonder if this is related to the Widgets feature that DirecTV is starting to beta-test on their set top boxes. DirecTV's media sharing features once required Viiv (before that died) so they seem to be close with Intel on a few things.
It would make DirecTV's forthcoming Widgets feature much more useful if it was a standard backed by Intel and Yahoo. If it's different and incompatible, that would be incredibly frustrating.
Wow, TV streamed over the internet! What an invention! I bet noone ever thought of that before!