Intel to Make DVR PC

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Intel to Make DVR PC

Looks like Intel is working on Entertainment PCs, running the Windows Media Center XP OS.

An Intel VP shared a lot of these ideas a couple weeks ago in a keynote speech. Here's some of his evangelizin':

The power of the Entertainment PC is awesome. It's a consumption device. It's a device that you lean back and consume the information from. I've shown you the audio space, we can deliver the very best audio capability out of the PC based on Grantsdale. We've talked about the ability of an integrated access point to have all of the network show up here. And then premium content. We're making tremendous strides forward, for example with Movielink and also the studios.

Skim through the rest, it's not all some Intel higher-up seeing people as consumption machines (you know the old saying about the image most CEOs have of their customers? Consumers are just a big mouth that eats products and shits cash.), there's a good bit about how to publish your own photos and music to the devies in your home as well.

by Matt Haughey March 8, 2004 in News

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I really don't think it's a Tivo marketing problem. I think we technically inclined folk VASTLY overestimate the willingness of ordinary people to put up with complexity. I have a friend who just last month finally learned how to do a programmed recording on her VCR. It was only last year that she learned how to record one show while she watched another. All this on a TV with a VCR and over the air reception, so no cable box complexity is involved. And she is a very bright person who likes watching TV. It's just not worth it to her to concentrate hard enough to deal with the complexity of a VCR.

Now, multiply that complexity by whatever to get the complexity of using a Tivo, much less setting it up. And add to that the insecurity of having to buy a Tivo without really understanding how much it adds to that complexity.

I like technology and gadgets... a lot! But, even I was a bit nonplussed by using my ReplayTV with a cable box and an IR blaster. It was very slow and somewhat complicated. I much prefer my current TimeWarner SA8000 box which is much simpler, if a bit less functional (though it does have two tuners which makes up for any other functionality it lacks).

I really think most people don't want a complicated Tivo/VCR/DVD/TV setup, even if it will substantially improve their viewing experience.

-barry

Posted by: Barry at Mar 10, 2004 10:05:16 PM

Trend watchers have been predicting PVR take-off for over 4 years; some have even stated hard drives would be in 25% of television set by 2004 (?). The technology has been around for years to simplify integration and to give folks the ability to record one channel and watch another - seamlessly - but the enablers have purposely spoonfed the public with incremental technology advancements to perhaps pay off NRE (non recurring engineering) costs and/or steer people to specific branding. Whatever the case when it all works together, no matter what the source and who's remote is being clicked people will begin to buy in! VCRs were non discriminating - PVR's, guide services and digital tech is and it's a huge shame...

Posted by: tony at Mar 10, 2004 10:22:58 PM

MFFIP, Inc. announces the sale of a US Utility Patent Application designated DVR001. The disclosure includes innovations in the DVR field. Bids are being accepted on eBay, item number 5981167951.

Posted by: MFFIP at Jun 11, 2005 8:49:33 AM

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