http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/I think he meant the guy holding it was sexy, but he wants the item in his hand to go into the EUP.]]>Sep 24th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
Some things, like Video On Demand, involve conversations between the cable system and the back office software running in the cable companies head end. Again won't be helped by a faster CPU.

Things always look great in shows when all the equipment is unloaded and the cable lengths are near-zero. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Unfortunately, they are going right back to EU court too Im sure - especially with AMD so close to folding. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
Not much clue about economics, huh?]]>Sep 24th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
Actually AMD's troubles are not all their own making. Everyone likes to say that if they just developed a fresh processor that beat Intel's CPU's that they wouldn't be in trouble in the first place. That's a pretty stupid comment given the well documented histories of the past ten years in the two companies development's. AMD most certainly did do exactly that with the release of the AMD64 platform. They spent years competing with Intel on the bargain market, and proved very able even there with the AMD 586 line topping the Intel 486 and Original Pentium lines. They built up the company to the point they could invest, not millions, not tens of millions but hundreds of millions of dollars into the Athlon architectures. And they totally spanked Intel with the AMD64 processor line and did so for a period of 3 - 4 years. Unfortunately each new CPU architecture requires that same investment in dollars to pay for the R&D. Dollars that they would have made plenty of if not for Intel's use of extortion, threats and bribes to computer manufactures to keep their market share from climbing any more that it already had. You can't make new and better without the money to pay for it, and despite having the better processors for years on end they weren't bringing in the money needed to really spend on the kind of R&D required at that level. The position they are in atm was a combination of their own mistakes with the launch of a few of their later lines and also the desired outcome bought and paid for my Intel's huge coffers. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
so lets just say that Intel didnt extort the manufacturers and their sales were about 6% less than they are now. Would that really make a difference. i am sure chips take longer that 2 years to design much less get production to any measurable capability. Its called lead time. what then. AMD would be slightly ahead of where they are now and no more.

Lets say microsoft pulled an intel and a few software companies did not make apple compatible products. Would that make apple's innovation suffer? didnt think so. ]]>Sep 24th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Atom + a zillion dedicated processing units for video, audio and other media > Pentium M

And consumes less power, while at it.]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
so far no one broadcasts into 1080p exclusively, but you can find the content over the on demand channels, but the bitrates are so varying its not like everything is going to be blu-ray quality or better.]]>Sep 24th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
Most of the ESPN stuff is 720p, not 1080p. 720p (1280x720,60fps) uses much less bandwidth than 1080i (1920x1080,30fps).]]>Sep 24th 2009 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
I'm guessing it would be close to a decade before BrightHouse updates it's cable boxes around here. They will probably 1080finityP by then.]]>Sep 24th 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 4:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/
http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=1652

These cheap little units already do just about everything media-wise except record TV (mainly because they don't have the appropriate tuner hardware). Put a CableCARD or internal ATSC/analog cable tuner in one of these with Windows 7 and you're golden.

I guess it all depends on what the price differential will be between the new Atom CE4100 and a 330 with ION on board.]]>Sep 24th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/

(how long till cable companies phase out these for new boxes is the real question...)]]>Sep 24th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/intel-announces-atom-ce4100-for-insanely-powerful-cable-boxes-an/Sep 24th 2009 5:24PM