AMD unveils living room PC reference design: world squints in wonder
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Nov 17th 2006 9:43AM
posted Nov 17th 2006 9:43AM
The days of finding brands like Microsoft, Apple, Intel, and Cisco limited to the office-space are long gone. Windows Media Center devices designed around Intel's Viiv platform and soon, Apple's iTV (or whatever the final name will be) are perfectly happy to snuggle up with the living room TV and a bowl of WiFi. So no surprise to find AMD coveting a cut of that turf too, with this, their new living room PC reference design -- a prototype AMD hopes will be copied by manufacturers to bring AMD's Live! entertainment platform to market that much faster. AMD's VP of Consumer Business, Joe Menard, said that these living room PCs "may come out next year" and might even include quiet running, fanless designs if we read into his comments just a bit. With Windows Vista Media Center installed, the device will then be capable of storing all your digital media for pumping back out the TV or other PCs on the home network. Yeah, we know, that's a lousy picture but it's all that AMD is offering -- come on AMD, nobody dances with the wallflower.
Haha "squints in wonder" is right. They couldn't bother to release a little higher-res pics?
Yeah... Another media center PC... Thats all we need... I would put up the cash if they promised a HD/Digital Cable tuner HDMI out and component out along with optical audio out... For lets say under 1,250k
1,250k? You'd buy it as long as it's less than 1.25 million dollars?
I solved all my problems of a GREAT media center PC, and it is called XBOX. XBMC rox.
It's npot a small picture. I think it's a "small" sized device with a system on a chip by AMD so it can be the ultimate 3 inch DVR.
This IS the iTV... why do you think Apple is ordering those AMD parts...
why buy this whn all the other one are on the market and aldo all the free os system that can and maby do so much more!!!
With this talk about Apple and AMD teaming up, Now we hear about this AMD device and before we heard about Apple's iTV, makes we wonder if the iTV with have AMD inside and if this is just AMD's branded version of it. Kinda like the panasonic version of the GameCube.
Oh well I'm just taking stabs in the dark.