Intel wants to tv cable services offering in the U.S.

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Intel would have plans to in the United States a virtual cable provider, the tv channels over the internet to customers. The manufacturer would be working on its own set-top-box and all of the end of 2012, with the services like to start.

Intel would his plans have unfolded to media companies, writes The Wall Street Journal. Among other things, it would concern prices have requested to channels or programs to be allowed to give, but concrete agreements would still not be closed. The tv service would be using Intel technology be offered, but apart from the set-top-box, it is not specified to what technology is. Lack of bandwidth would not be a problem; Intel would be the media companies ‘ promise that the image quality at low bandwidth levels. Incidentally, it took Intel in 2010, the set-top-box division of Texas Instruments.

Intel wants more foot on the ground, get on the tv market and took last year the decision are business unit for tv products to significantly reorganize. Last month, it announced that Intel’s new Atom socs for smart tvs from Samsung. In 2005, it introduced Intel all the Viiv platform, which the the living room wanted to conquer. By Viiv had to consumers their pcs more like consumer electronics, and it also had compatibility for tv’s. The platform, however, came barely of the ground.