Why isn't Viiv working for Intel?
NEWEST MULTIMEDIA PC BRAND HASN'T GENERATED MUCH BUZZ
The most common Viiv approach seems similar to Apple TV. A media adapter gizmo sits next to the TV, and connects to a personal computer. The delay in availability of the media adapter gizmos and a new media-aware OS (i.e. Vista), have taken some of the wind out of the sales of Viiv.
One of the "gizmos" is described in the September 2006 article below -- but it's still in beta and currently only supports presentation of photo and music from the attached PC to the TV: Don't even think about moving media in the other way.
DirecTV's Viiv box almost ready for prime time
I'm still not clear why a PC needs Viiv to do this. Fast boot and power-on via LAN perhaps?
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NEWEST MULTIMEDIA PC BRAND HASN'T GENERATED MUCH BUZZ
The most common Viiv approach seems similar to Apple TV. A media adapter gizmo sits next to the TV, and connects to a personal computer. The delay in availability of the media adapter gizmos and a new media-aware OS (i.e. Vista), have taken some of the wind out of the sales of Viiv.
One of the "gizmos" is described in the September 2006 article below -- but it's still in beta and currently only supports presentation of photo and music from the attached PC to the TV: Don't even think about moving media in the other way.
DirecTV's Viiv box almost ready for prime time
I'm still not clear why a PC needs Viiv to do this. Fast boot and power-on via LAN perhaps?
- mark 3-13-2007 4:16 am