{"id":7665,"date":"2012-03-13T05:31:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T05:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2012-03-13T05:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T05:33:50","slug":"intel-eyes-internet-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/7665\/intel-eyes-internet-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel eyes Internet TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chipmaker <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307489-Intel\" target=\"_blank\">Intel<\/a> Corp is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the effort.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s top chipmaker plans to create a &#8220;virtual cable operator&#8221; that would offer media companies&#8217; TV channels in a bundle over the Internet, the WSJ said.<\/p>\n<p>An Intel spokeswoman declined to comment on the story.<\/p>\n<p>The product could use an Intel set-top box and Intel&#8217;s name, and the chipmaker has told its potential partners it wants to start the service before the end of the year, the WSJ said.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Intel wound down its efforts to make chips for digital &#8220;smart&#8221; TVs, although it continues to make chips for set-top boxes.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, it formed the Intel Media business group, headed by former BBC executive Erik Huggers, aimed at promoting digital content on Intel-based platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chipmaker Intel Corp is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,305,1667,1934],"class_list":["post-7665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-intel","tag-internet-tv","tag-wall-street-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7667,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions\/7667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}