Silicon Mountain debuts Atom-based Allio Lite LCD TV-PC
By Donald Melanson 
posted February 2nd 2009 5:17PM
posted February 2nd 2009 5:17PM
It's just been a few months since Silicon Mountain rolled out its first Allio LCD TV-PCs, but it looks like the company has already found some room for expansion courtesy of everyone's favorite cost-reducing processor. While the TV portion of the 1080p 42-inch model and 720p 32-inch model each remain identical to their predecessors, the innards have taken on more of a netbook/nettop flavor, with each packing a dual-core Atom 330 processor, along with a 250GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and a DVD drive (no Blu-ray option, it seems), plus Windows Vista Home Premium for an OS. That, as you might expect, lowers the cost of entry a tad, with the 42-inch model now demanding $1,599 (the same as the full-featured 32-inch model), while the Atom-based 32-incher will run you $1,299.
Yea... Graphics card? if it had a ATI or nVidia card, it could do H264. If it has Intel, it can't. How much cost cutting did they do?
Will it run Crysis?...
Right so you want the consumer to buy a brand of television most have never herd of. A 42 inch at that for 1600 bucks. Come on I just bought a Philips 42' 1080p 120hrz for 1k plus shipping from dell. I can live without an atom processor in my tv.
42-inches is soooooo 2008! (that's what she said)
if they added led backlighting would that make it 2009? maybe the atom and os was an after thought to bring up the price of the tv and whoopee it's got a processor. hmm probably their marketing must have been thinking in order to differentiate their products they need to throw in the wow betcha factor like your tv doesn't have it and it's more power efficient than your htpc... could that have been on their marketing groups sketchbook?
Could the Atom even do BluRay? I know the single core one cant do 1080p (it can barely do 720p sometimes).
Obviously the TV is only 720p, but it would still have to handle the 1080p format of BluRay.
Anyways, its a no-name brand, and its quite expensive given the poor resolution. Get me something from a large name manufacture, as well as nVidia's Ion platform, and integrated BluRay, and then we can talk.
This might me pretty useful, it wont be cost affective, but no computer to lug around or hide
Let's all buy 10" netbooks instead.
I mean, what do you do with a processor in a TV?
I heard the build quality was crap. Like they pretty much saw a hole in the back of the TV and hot glue some PC parts wherever they find room. Then they ship it and it is DOA because everything fell off.
I guess its going to become trend. BTW why not put a ATOM based small computer in every TV? It will make TVs more smart and they can connect to home network and you can see youtube etc on them, you can push video to them ...
I guess every TV will have a computer in it (and windows/Linux) in it soon.
Perhaps the next important trend after Netbooks.
Wow, very cool... Would like to see how boxee would run on it.
silly company, silicon is found in VALLEYS.
would like to see how the boxee would run it as well, way cool
Tv on Pc
This sounds like a no name brand to me, and the res is low
http://www.tvforyourcomputer.com