Intel and Tivo Partner Up

yapplejax writes "Intel and Tivo are partnering on a PC platform in hopes to standardize the platform. From the Associated Press: 'The goal of the Viiv label, he said, is to avoid consumer confusion and questions over interoperability. It also will ensure the products will work when the PC is being controlled from a distance via a remote control.'"

Comments

Wha?

[Volanin]

From the article:

- It also will ensure the products will work[...]

- All will run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Center operating system.

Hmmm... something feels really paradoxical here...

Good graphic

[OYAHHH]

Good graphic,

The Register has a good graphic per this announcement. See it at the bottom if the following page:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/30/tivo_backs _intel_viiv/

Corbett is an idiot

[LanMan04]

From TFA: "We basically accelerated the heck out of Wi-Fi," Corbett said. "We plan to do the same thing around digital entertainment."

Oh yeah, without Intel hardly anyone would be using Wi-fi! Thank you Centrino for making such a huge difference in the Wi-fi marketplace!

What an ass.

Re:"Viiv" rhymes with "five".

[theantipop]

I guess you've never worked retail. You learn to speak "customer" pretty quick. All you have to do is forget everything you know about what you're selling and you're on the same boat they are.

Avoid confusion?

[Anonymous Coward]

The goal of the Viiv label, he said, is to avoid consumer confusion

I'm confused by how to even pronounce Viiv.

Re:Avoid confusion?

[generic-man]

You're reading it upside down. It's an inside joke to the guy's logic class.

ViiV -> /\!!/\

"AND!! AND"

Which one?

[Volanin]

So... which one is better?

viiv or emacsscame?

No flamewar intentions.
Karma burn mode on!

Just great.

[Sierpinski]

It also will ensure the products will work when the PC is being controlled from a distance via a remote control.'"

So my jerk neighbor can fill my hard drive up with HGTV while I'm away on vacation because he bought one of those programmable universal remotes or something similar? I might lose all my episodes of Golden Girls and Designing Women! Oh the horror!