Combination of TV and Internet with Intel and Yahoo

There have been companies such as WebTV who tried to combine Internet capabilities and television viewing and have failed in the past, but there has been some success stories such as DirectTV initiative and Viiv, But now Santa Clara said they have found a a way to pair the two types of contents seamlessly.

At ADF this week, a new widget channel was announced by Intel who are in partnership with Yahoo, the concept is said to finally entice viewers into viewing the television as a portal through which they are able to access online data.

The Widget Channel will be powered by an Intel system-on-a-chip (SoC) product, and will contain “a high-performance Intel architecture processor core, multi-stream high-definition video processing, integrated graphics and lots of other functional units to aid set top boxes and other CE devices run multiple widgets concurrently with TV programming.” We presume these first devices will be based on the Intel CE 3100 the company announced today.

So Intel and Yahoo have designed a flexible system, and it will be capable of displaying widgets from multiple vendors and providers.

Source: arstechica