Free Newsletters :  Why Your TV Will Have Intel Inside  The chip
giant is working on a smart TV product. But why? (Page 1 of 2)
Reports say Intel will announce in February a new smart TV
platform and set-top box.  Surprisingly, Intel is not just
making hardware; they're reportedly wheeling and dealing in
Hollywood to ink deals with studios that would enable Intel to
"unbundle" shows from their networks, so that people could order
TV shows without subscribing to a cable package.  One report
says Intel will roll out the service city-by-city slowly over
time in order to make these deals. They'll start with small
markets, and demonstrate the business viability of their model.
That model may include facial recognition technology to
essentially determine demographic information about viewers,
including age and gender so that ads can be more narrowly
targeted.  It may also include technologies like high-speed
video downloading capability, huge-capacity DVR storage, video-
conferencing and many others.  It seems unl