DIRECTV joins the Viiv-olution

DIRECTV is clearly looking to extend their presence and now they've enlisted in the Intel Viiv army to help. No new products to show just yet, but the vision is forming and it appears to include DIRECTV content pretty much everywhere. The joint effort appears headed towards DIRECTV on PMPs, notebooks, and more, all courtesy of set-top boxes on the Viiv platform later in 2006. Also in the works is a PC tuner for satellite television (yo, it's about time!) so we can push that DIRECTV content on to all of those high-res displays we've been grabbing for our PCs. More is sure to follow, but for now we'll just dream about satellite content on every video device we own.

[DMills @ Jan 6th 2006 12:22AM]

Alright !



Bring it on and hurry up, my STB is going to need replacing soon. Mpeg4 is coming, Hurry up with this.

[Kel @ Jan 6th 2006 9:44AM]

"PC tuner for satellite television"



Fantastic! Except for the DRM that will most likely accompany it. Hackers, start your engines.

[Kevin @ Jan 8th 2006 7:51PM]

What cave have you been living in? Satellite TV tuners have been around for a minute. You need to get someone who is up on the latest gadets to do your reporting.



http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/products_digitvtuner_dvbs.asp?show=1

http://www.lifeview.com/usa/html/products/PCITV/lifetv_satellite.htm

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_nexus.html