The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack branded The Widget Channel. Yahoo! spent about two years customizing Yahoo! Widget Engine for high-definition televisions and hardware-accelerated graphics displays. Yahoo! will pitch its widget engine for televisions, display advertising integration, and customizable widget gallery to cable operators, television manufacturers, and other major consumer electronics companies as Yahoo! seeks a prominent role in what it calls the "Cinematic Internet."
Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV
The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack branded The Widget Channel. Yahoo! spent about two years customizing Yahoo! Widget Engine for high-definition televisions and hardware-accelerated graphics displays. Yahoo! will pitch its widget engine for televisions, display advertising integration, and customizable widget gallery to cable operators, television manufacturers, and other major consumer electronics companies as Yahoo! seeks a prominent role in what it calls the "Cinematic Internet."
