Intel Shows-Off Entertainment PCs In The Digital Home

Soaring sales of digital cameras, music players, CD/DVD players, digital TVs, personal video recorders (PVR) and a slew of other digital devices highlight the pervasiveness of digital entertainment. Consumers who want to enjoy this vast selection of digital content on their home TVs and stereos now have an easier way to do this due to this new category of the PCs: the Entertainment PC.





As the media "command center" of the digital home, Entertainment PCs are designed to sit on an entertainment rack and work with a television set with a remote control or a wireless keyboard. It combines the functionality of home audio and video devices with the power of a high-performance multimedia computer.

A broad range of Entertainment PCs were shown at the digital home pavilion of the Intel Developer Forum Tech Showcase in Taipei. They included systems from Asus, Belta, FIC, Gigabyte, Tatung, TCL and Wistron.

In Intel's vision of the digital home, the PC, consumer electronics, wireless communications and digital content industries will work together to eliminate the boundaries between devices that both compute and communicate, and consumer electronics products that entertain. In the digital home, consumers have the ability to enjoy their content — entertainment and multimedia, on their terms with effortless, seamless, wireless access to any content, anywhere, on any device.

The Entertainment PC acts as a combined CD/DVD player and recorder, FM stereo and music server, and personal video recorder. By adding a broadband connection, an Entertainment PC becomes an on-demand entertainment store, allowing users to download the latest movies, music, news and more.

Based on Intel Pentium 4 processors supporting Hyper-Threading Technology and the Intel 915 Express Chipset, high-performance Entertainment PCs have the power to simultaneously perform demanding tasks such as watching a DVD while recording a live TV program or playing an interactive game while downloading a movie in the background. At the digital home pavilion of the Intel Developer Forum Tech Showcase, visitors can experience wireless gaming on a large plasma screen in the living room, extension of personal content such as music or photos to other devices around the home wirelessly, viewing of high definition video with a home theatre setting, and gain a first-hand experience of the versatility and quality multimedia performance of the Entertainment PCs.

Source: press release

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