New Intel Chip for Digital TV Could Remake the Market

[Ray Austin]

Add windows to the mix and it would be the first TV known to be able to crash.

you can read about it here.

[paulw]

And don't forget the DRM crap that will stop you from changing channels or the volume during the ads..

[KRSESQ]

By contrast, the technology used by Intel employs vast arrays of tiny electronic shutters that can alter the amount of reflected light, an approach that may allow companies to make big-screen TV sets using rear-projection technology that matches or exceeds the quality of flat-panel TV's at a much lower cost than plasma and conventional L.C.D.

I'll believe that when I see it.

the low-cost display technology, which can be incorporated into the traditional rear-projection television sets, could lead to lightweight 50-inch screens only 7 inches thick for about $1,000, perhaps as early as the 2004 holiday season.

That, too.

Cool, never the less.

Kevin