Yahoo Widget Engine - Every TV

People are sick of just watching TV. They want to be able to see the new mail headers, tweeted messages and updates in the feedlist while watching the broadcast. Soon all this will be possible.

Intel and Yahoo have announced a joint initiative to deliver web content on top of a television signal, so that TV viewers can browse the Internet while watching their favorite program without removing their hands from a regular D / U console.

The content will be displayed on the left side of the TV screen or at the bottom in the form of a ribbon of widgets, between which the user can switch without interrupting the usual broadcast (see the video demonstration ). Used engine Yahoo Widget fifth generation. Of course, the bulk of the content will be supplied by Yahoo: this is the weather forecast, news headlines, Flickr photos, sports scores, stock quotes, etc. (there will be a choice of hundreds and thousands of widgets), although independent developers can also create their own programs based on Yahoo Widget Engine. The new interactive service is tentatively called the “Widget Channel”, that is, the “widget channel”.

Negotiations have already begun with cable television operators in the United States, as well as with television manufacturers (an Intel CE3100 media processor , codenamed “Canmore,” which, among other things, has the ability to process two HD video streams in parallel, supports 3D video, 7.1 sound, three-channel DDR2 800 MHz memory controller and much more). Intel promises that the first televisions with this chip will appear in the first floor. 2009
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If the initiative does succeed, it will be the most fundamental change in the concept of television in its entire history.

By the way, now Yahoo is actively promoting its platform Yahoo Widget Engine for implementation not only in TVs, but also in mobile phones of all manufacturers.