Intel Unveils TV Chip

blog.laptopmag.com - 8/20/2008

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Not content to have its products in your pocket and your bag, Intel has set its sights on your entertainment center. At IDF today, the chip maker introduced the Intel Media Processor CE 3100, which can be embedded in television sets to bring Internet capability to the tube. The processor can also be put into [...]

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Engadget: Intel and Yahoo! envision embedded internet TV

SlashGear: Intel embedded IPTV system announced: Yahoo! Widgets, HD downloads

Gizmodo: Intel's Latest System-On-A-Chip is For Web Enabled TVs, Set-Top Boxes [Intel]

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Intel and Yahoo! envision embedded internet TV
Engadget — ... 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. 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)Permalink ...

Intel embedded IPTV system announced: Yahoo! Widgets, HD downloads
SlashGear — ... Gigabyte has already developed a set-top box using the Media Processor CE 3100 and including the Yahoo! Widget Channel, which Laptop Mag spent some hands-on time with; they reported it smooth and sleek, with promising functionality such as Blockbuster films on demand. Samsung and Toshiba are both confirmed as looking into using the CE 3100 in upcoming products. ...

Intel's Latest System-On-A-Chip is For Web Enabled TVs, Set-Top Boxes [Intel]
Gizmodo — ... with the internet connectedness to run widgets from Yahoo's Widget Channel on TVs and STBs like the mockup you see here. Great, another web-connected TV platform. Intel and Yahoo's solution can pull down Flickr photos, weather, and related TV content and dump it into widgets along the bottom of the screen. It's nothing we haven't seen before. But at least now Intel's FCC plea for mandatory ethernet jacks on all STBs makes a lot more sense. The folks at Laptop had a chance to walk through the interface: ...