Intel’s Latest System-On-A-Chip is For Web Enabled TVs, Set-Top Boxes
Only a month or so after announcing intentions to dabble in the SoC game for embedded systems, Intel’s showing off its first iteration at the Intel Developers Forum. The CE 3100 (previously known as “Canmore” in Intel speak) combines HD video processing, “home theatre quality” audio and 3D graphics 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.
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The only thing surprising or interesting about this ‘news’ is that hardware manufacturers and content providers have taken so damn long to wake up to this idea.
One day, hopefully soon, we will have access to a $300 box the size of a decent hardback novel that runs whisper quiet, uses minimal power, is broadband-connected, can receive digital tv and record whatever we like in DRM-free open formats.
Of course this will all be accessible in a big-screen readable format using a remote control and our media will be enriched by quality metadata from the interweb.
The surprising thing is that it’s taken a monopolist like Intel, and the massive consumer goods companies that build extremely expensive displays, this long to provide anything even close to that experience. YET WE ARE STILL NOT THERE YET!
How many ViiV, TiVo, PSX3 “Play TV” and similar half-arsed solutions do we have to tolerate before someone can put together the full box and dice?