The television was the first screen to appear in our home, yet it has become the last to connect to the Internet. The first “connected” TV and Blu-ray players appeared in 2008 and, from the outset, they merely offered basic … Read more
This post is on behalf of Lance Koenders, Director of Marketing for Intel’s Digital Home Group. There has been a lot of chatter over the past several months around smart TV and the future of your television. If you aren’t … Read more
There has been some confusion online about Intel Insider. So here are the facts: Is it DRM? There have been stories describing Intel Insider as a ‘DRM’ technology. DRM means ‘Digital Rights Management’ and is used to control the use … Read more
As Logitech and Sony prepare to launch their smart TV products, each based on the Google TV platform, it’s worth taking a look at what is going on in this category, and why a processor like Atom (and specifically the … Read more
Recently my colleague Ryan Parker, the director of energy for Intel’s Embedded and Communications Group, had an opportunity to meet with CBS Interactive producer Sumi Das to demonstrate Intel’s Home Dashboard demo for a video segment. Watch as he explains … Read more
Watching TV with people has been a lifelong habit of mine. My grandparents always had a TV, for sports and for the soaps, and upgraded to color with the invention of one day cricket. A trip to my grandparent’s house … Read more
A defining tenet of the User Experience Group holds that to truly drive user-centered technology development, we must look beyond our own experiences to understand how people around the world live and how they use technology. We are not our … Read more
As many of you might know, GoogleTV was launched nearly a fortnight ago, and is clearly the first in a number of SmartTV experiences that will become available on the market soon. Thinking about TV futures is, then, very timely. … Read more
The amount of innovation the TV has seen in the past year, and last couple of years, is astounding. If you can think back to the pre big-screen HD movement, consumers more or less purchased TVs with a bigger (and … Read more
We recently conducted a series of demo show events internally across Intel and externally for analysts, showcasing how we’re re-imagining the TV from yesterday to Smart TVs with amazing user experiences moving forward. The response has been overwhelming and we’re … Read more
