Comments on: Intel's chips taking on new work

Chipmaker wants to get PC tech into places it currently doesn't dominate: consumer electronics and telecommunications equipment.

[ferrox]

Intel's new chips-a great idea if intel is listening

Go to the store.
One of those big consumer electronics and or computer stores.

There are those $500,000.00 plasma and flat screen TVs.
Satellite receivers and projection TVs.

What don't you see?
Not ONE television, from $100.00 to $1,000,000,000.00 with a
USB port! Most of the DVD players, 100% of the ones I saw, SAME
THING!

Ya' know, about that new Apple TV box thingy that lets you send
images from computer to TV and back again? How about this,
marry that thing up to a Tivo, call Comcast and tell them, to
download all your favorite shows for the next three months onto
your 460 GigaByte hard drive and you will watch at least three
hours of commercials a week, heck let the commercials run
nonstop ion a dedicated channel from the hard drive-what
happens? NO ONE IS LISTENING AND THE CONTENT IS NOT
AVAILABLE EVEN FROM ITUNES, I know I TRIED ALL OF THIS!
Yeah, all this new techy is great, sure it is, oh yes it is, but the
people controlling the content need a spinal tap and a major
dose of open mindedness-people!
Customers, WILL PAY for what they want! We drive small ugly
cars for years just so we can buy a new Mercedes, Cadillac,
Bentley, Bugatti, eventually.
But intel,..I make it simple for you, put firewire, and USB on my
TV just like it is on my digital camera. Get rid of those funky
audio jacks from the age when Betamax was still kicking.
Make surround sound work BETWEEN electronic devices. Give
me the doorbell, wirelessly over my computer based intercomm-
a Universal Sound Buss (USB) such that all devices can share one
set of speakers without reprogramming the orbit of the sun
through the universe(put the equivalent of MAC addresses on
the speaker controller and put it in the speakers?!?).
OH AND INTEL DO NOT BE THE LAST COMPANY TO PUT A HEAD
UP DISPLAY (or projection) CLOCK AND RSS FEED ON MY
TELEVISION cause if you are, I will be forced to make it and
corner the market by getting the Chinese and Indians to build
and program it for me,..and,..I just would NOT want to hurt you
like that.

Okay, I am customer and I have spoken.
Are you listening,...?

[ben::zen]

Listen? We can't comprehend

Your writing style needs to be more structured if you want anyone to listen or read your rants. That was my first point. Secondly, for USB (Universal SERIAL Bus) to truly be useful, it will need to have a real interface to be used. Also, it is only just reaching speeds where the transfer of video/audio would be useful. The RCA a/v jacks are just fine, especially for legacy equipment. I can hook my mp3 player in via a Left/Right stereo plug adapter. the Apple TV is supposed to recieve the data from iTunes, not the other way around. Finally, sound does work between devices, it's simply that no one needs their doorbell hooked into their HiFi decks.
As for the RSS feed... do you *really* want your TV to need an IP address? we should switch over to IPv6 right now then, because otherwise you will be in for a rough time, as our pool of addresses is rapidly depleting.