Intel(R) and Yahoo!(R) to Bring the Internet to Television

Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel will allow consumers to enjoy rich Internet applications designed for the TV while watching their favorite TV programs. The Widget Channel will be powered by the Yahoo! Widget Engine, a fifth-generation applications platform that will enable TV watchers to interact with and enjoy a rich set of “TV Widgets,” or small Internet applications designed to complement and enhance the traditional TV watching experience and bring content, information and community features available on the Internet within easy reach of the remote control. The Widget Channel will also allow developers to use JAVASCRIPT^®, XML¹, HTML¹ and Adobe Flash® technology to write TV applications for the platform, extending the power and compatibility of PC application developer programs to TV and related CE devices. In addition to supporting the Yahoo! Widget Engine, Yahoo! will also provide consumers Yahoo!-branded TV Widgets that are customized based on its category-leading Internet services.

TV Widgets will enable consumers to engage in a variety of experiences, such as watching videos, tracking their favorite stocks or sports teams, interacting with friends, or staying current on news and information. Viewers will be able to use TV Widgets to deepen their enjoyment of the programming they are watching, discover new content and services, or share their favorites with friends and family. TV Widgets can be personalized because they will be based upon popular Internet services such as Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Sports, Blockbuster^® and eBay^® that viewers have customized for use in their daily lives.

“TV will fundamentally change how we talk about, imagine and experience the Internet,” said Eric Kim, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Digital Home Group. “No longer just a passive experience unless the viewer wants it that way, Intel and Yahoo! are proposing a way where the TV and Internet are as interactive, and seamless, as possible. Our close work has produced an exciting application framework upon which the industry can collaborate, innovate and differentiate. This effort is one of what we believe will be many exciting new ways to bring the Internet to the TV, and it really shows the potential of what consumers can look forward to.”

“On the PC and mobile devices, Yahoo! is a leading starting point for millions of consumers around the world,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo! Inc. “Yahoo! aims to extend this leadership to the emerging world of Internet-connected TV, which we call the Cinematic Internet™. By partnering with leaders like Intel, we plan to combine the Internet benefits of open user choice, community, and personalization with the performance and scale embodied in the Intel Architecture to transform traditional TV into something bigger, better and more exciting than ever before. By using the popular Yahoo! Widget Engine to power the Widget Channel, we intend to provide an opportunity for all developers and publishers to create new experiences that can reach millions of TV viewers globally. Yahoo! plans to enable the Cinematic Internet^™ ecosystem, which will benefit consumers, device makers, advertisers and publishers.”

Widget Channel Framework and TV Widget Developers

Underlying the Widget Channel will be a powerful set of platform technologies, including the Yahoo! Widget Engine and core libraries that expose the powerful functions enabled by the Intel Architecture. The Widget Channel framework will use established Internet technologies to dramatically lower the barrier of entry for developing applications optimized for TV. To help create new TV Widgets for the Widget Channel, Intel and Yahoo! plan to make a development kit available to developers, including TV and other CE device makers, advertisers and publishers. The Widget Channel will also include a Widget Gallery, to which developers can publish their TV Widgets across multiple TV and related CE devices and through which consumers can view and select the TV Widgets they would like to use.

Intel and Yahoo! are working with a range of industry-leading companies that are planning on developing and deploying TV Widgets, including Blockbuster¹, CBS Interactive¹, CinemaNow¹, Cinequest¹, Comcast¹, Disney-ABC Television Group¹, eBay¹, GE¹, Group M¹, Joost¹, MTV¹, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.¹, Schematic¹, Showtime¹, Toshiba¹ and Twitter¹. These and other companies and individuals will be able to innovate, differentiate and deploy TV Widgets across multiple TV and related CE devices using the Widget Channel framework. Additional information on the Widget Channel framework and the Yahoo! Widget Engine can be found at www.intel.com/go/celink and http://connectedtv.yahoo.com/newsroom.

Intel Architecture

Intel Architecture (IA) is at the heart of millions of PC-, MID- and server-based Internet clients, which has helped enable the proliferation of Internet-based content and services while providing users with an uncompromised Internet experience. Accelerating the delivery of the Internet to the TV, Intel today extended performance, headroom and connectivity of IA into a new family of “purpose built” system-on-chip (SoC) media processors for Internet-connected CE devices, including optical media players, U.S. cable set-top-boxes, digital TVs and other connected audio visual products.

Intel’s first CE IA-based SoC, the Intel® Media Processor CE 3100 (formerly “Canmore”), is a highly integrated chip which includes a high-performance IA core and other functional I/O blocks to enable high definition video decode and viewing, home-theater-quality audio, 3-D graphics, and the fusion of the Internet and TV experiences. The Widget Channel software framework is designed to work with a new generation of Internet-connected CE devices based on Intel’s purpose built SoC. The hardware and software compatibility of IA also provides support for broadcast and Internet content.

Intel also plans to release the Intel Media Processor CE 3100-based hardware development system called the “Innovation Platform” which will provide the initial development and validation environment for developers of TV Widgets on the Widget Channel.

An Open Framework

Finally, Intel and Yahoo! are working with industry members to promote the development of open and consistent standards necessary to grow the TV Widget ecosystem. As part of their efforts, the companies are sharing an early version of a development kit for the Widget Channel with selected TV Widget developers now.

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Samsung teams up with Yahoo to bring TV internet service to your sofa

It may not seem like much, a matter of a few feet, negotiating a corridor and a couple of doorways, but it has become one of the technology industry's greatest challenges - dragging the internet away from the family PC and out of the home office and putting it on the television set in the lounge. After years of watching others fail to achieve it, Samsung Electronics believes that it is about to succeed.

This week the world's largest consumer electronics company will tell the IFA industry fair in Germany that it is partnering Yahoo! to provide content for a new integrated internet access service in its televisions. The InfoLive service will provide news, finance and weather information from Yahoo!, directed from the remote control. Samsung plans to provide the service on Series 7, 8 and 9 televisions in Canada, Australia, and Singapore and in selected countries in Europe by the end of this year.

As ever with such advances, timing is everything. Previous attempts have failed not because the technology was lacking but because the audience was not ready to give up the big screen to anything other than a television programme or a film. Interactivity came a poor second to sitting and watching.

But tastes are changing. Consumers are much more used to interactivity across all media, from radio phone-ins and X Factor-style votes to internet blogs and comments, and they are embracing the combination of net and television. One survey, for example, found that 43 per cent of viewers of the Super Bowl in February surfed the web on their laptops or mobile phones while watching the game on TV.

Samsung believes that it has surmounted the problem of navigation by not swamping the big screen but by adding bite-sized interactive choices. Users will be able to watch a programme while a tickertape of news items, share prices or weather forecasts runs in tandem with it. The content is accessible via an integrated Ethernet port or via Samsung's wireless LAN adapter, which connects to the viewer's broadband service.

Moreover, Samsung is seeking interactive success on several fronts. Separately, it is a partner for a venture between Yahoo! and Intel, the chip-maker, to develop what is being called the Widget Channel of interactive content. In due course, viewers may be able to check their eBay auction, view a friend's photos and instant message friends, all using the remote control from the comfort of their armchairs.

Jungwoo Park surveys these prospects from his office in the Samsung tower south of Seoul. The head of the digital media division at Samsung Electronics sees them as part of the battle to make Samsung's televisions the centre of entertainment in every living room. According to Dr Park, televisions will be the company's big driver of growth for the next five years.

“We want televisions to be centre of the home network,” he said. And the key to that is a change in Samsung's strategy. Until now, it has kept out of the game of providing content, concentrating on developing its market-leading range of high-definition sets. Now, according to Dr Park, the solutions are not just about hardware but about the software that televisions carry.

Samsung Electronics, with significant market shares in mobile phones, LED screens, white goods and other items, powered its way to a $105 billion worldwide turnover in 2007. Amid this year's global economic woes, Dr Park argues that he should provide premium products with added value to keep the customers spending.

He foresees a time - perhaps only five years away - when TV sets will been connected wirelessly to a range of devices that will “talk” to each other automatically, downloading pictures, streaming video, music and games. “No stress,” Dr Park said, with a smile.

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Panasonic replaces Sony as Japan’s coolest electronics brand

Although much has been made of Sony’s recent resurgence under Sir Howard Stringer, the Tokyo monster may be surprised to learn that it has been toppled as the public’s favourite producer of quality electronics.

The finding comes from a survey of 600 people carried out in May by Japanese business newspaper, the Nikkei [subscription link].

Results showed that, “consumers who value qualities like refinement and excellent design tend to choose products made by Panasonic when they buy audiovisual devices like TVs and DVD recorders.”

The complex survey looked at products people already own and those they plan to buy next, with Panasonic rating highest in both cases for both TV sets and video recorders.

Sony, which has long been seen as the quality brand among Japanese electronics suppliers, came out amongst the rank and file that includes Sharp, Toshiba, JVC and Mitsubishi.

The Panasonic brand has traditionally been seen as solid but unoriginal, however a series of successful product launches, such as Viera TVs, since 2002 has culminated in a new sense of trust.

Nevertheless, the news isn’t all bad for Sony, as responses on video recorders and PCs showed there were more people interested in buying Sony gear in the near future than who currently use Sony products.

This suggests there may be some substance to the recent uptick in Sony’s perceived health.

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LG To Offer Blu-ray Player, LG BD300, With Netflix Streaming Access

The partnership between Netflix and LG Electronics announced prior this year’s CES is ready to enter in a new phase, as the LG BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player is ready for launch.

The South Korean maker said that the device, which is capable to play high definition Blu-ray discs, up-convert standard DVDs to 1080p and allow Netflix subscribers to instantly stream more than 12,000 choices of movies and TV episodes, will be available at retail starting this fall.
However, LG offered also a hint about the price, with the company officials saying that the new player, the LG BD300 Network Blu-ray disc, will be priced “well under $500”

Earlier this month, Netflix said it recorded its sixth quarter with profit growth in a row on the growing number of customers and the decreasing cost of adding.

The Los Gatos, Calofornia- based company posted a net income growth for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 of 3.8 percent to $26.6 million, or 42 cents a share. During that same period last year, Netflix earned $25.6 million, or 37 cents.

Netflix, which has more than 55 million discs and ships 1.9 million of them to customers each day (on average), saw its sales increase 11 percent to $337.6 million. The company’s leadership forecasted a second-quarter revenue of $334 million to $339 million.

Netflix reduced its prices last year in order to draw more customers. The strategy contributed to the firm’s lowest cost to bring on new subscribers since Netflix became a public company in May 2002. In May, the company introduced a new device, Roku by Netflix, which allows movies sent by mail to be watched on television. Netflix, which sends movies by mail, finished the quarter with 8.4 million subscribers, while net subscriptions rose 168,000.

Also, at this year’s E3 Business and Media Summit Microsoft announced its new collaboration with Netflix that will allow to the Xbox 360 users to stream shows and movies directly on TVs.

The new service is intended to complement the already-made available Xbox Live Video Marketplace, rather than to replace it. Those Xbox 360 owners who had already subscribed to Netflix and currently have an Xbox LIVE Gold account will get the service for free.

Netflix is competing with several similar services. For example, at E3, Sony launched its own movie and television sales and rental service through the PlayStation Network. The content is provided by Fox, MGM, Disney, Paramount and Sony Pictures and the TV shows are available for 1.99 dollars per episode, while the movies can be rented for prices between 2.99 to 5.99 dollars. Those customers who wish to buy a movie will have to spend 9.99 or 14.99 dollars.

And, of course there is Apple TV. So far, Apple’s device failed to be a success, but in January at MacWorld, Steve Jobs introduced a new, cheaper, version, along with the introduction of movie rentals on iTunes.

Apple TV Take Two has new software that ensures a seamless integration with Movie Rentals, allowing movie fans to rent and watch movies right from their widescreen TV, with no computer required. A 40-gigabyte model is sold for only $229, while a 160-gigabyte model costs $329.

Apple has added the movies to its iTunes catalog in September 2006, but due to the lack of initial support from the movies studios, the business was going slowly, compared to the sales of digital music. However, earlier this year Steve Jobs managed to convince all the major Hollywood studios to join iTunes and last month the Cupertino company said that iTunes customers are buying 50,000 movies per day.

In May, Apple has announced that it would sell movies through its iTunes on the same day as the titles are released in DVD form. Studios previously gave DVD releases a head start of as much as 30 to 45 days over other distribution outlets to help preserve a major income source.
Also, in April there were rumors that Blockbuster is secretly working on a device which will allow video content to be streamed directly to a TV. Apparently the content will be provided by Movielink, a former joint-effort of MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner, which was acquired last year by Blockbuster. Movielink has a library of 6,600 movies.

Also earlier this month, Amazon announced a new video on demand service called Amazon VOD, which will offer 40,000 movies and television programs. Amazon’s VoD will be available through Sony Bravia Internet Video link, a $300 device for Sony’s high-definition televisions. In the future Sony intends to embed the Amazon VoD as a standard feature.

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Web TV’s fast growth confirmed

Web video, and TV services like YouTube and the BBC’s iPlayer, are no longer confined to PC users, according to “Digital Media Devices Global Market Forecast,” just published by Strategy Analytics. A wave of recent announcements from major players such as Sony, Microsoft and Samsung confirms that internet-enabled TVs, games consoles and peripherals, such as Blu-ray Disc players, will soon deliver web-based content to millions of TV viewers around the world.

According to Strategy Analytics estimates, by the end of 2008 some 186 million connected TV devices worldwide will be able to access some form of internet content.

“The web video explosion has so far been restricted largely to PC users,” says David Mercer, VP and Principal Analyst. “Now it is moving to the TV screen. While business model and content partner issues are still to be resolved, the floodgates are open – web video is set to become a regular part of the TV viewing experience.”

Connected TV devices allow viewers to access the internet using a home broadband connection. The technology can be integrated into the TV itself, or more often is available through devices such as games consoles, set-top boxes, digital video recorders (DVRs) and digital media adapters like AppleTV. Sony recently announced that all of its TVs would feature web connectivity within the next three years. In the US, Sony will offer the movie, Hancock, over the internet, to owners of its Bravia TV sets, using its Bravia Internet Video Link.

“Internet connectivity is becoming commonplace across a wide spectrum of consumer devices,” says Peter King, Director, Connected Home Devices. “By 2014 more than two-thirds of all products sold will integrate Internet access.”
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Gadgets feed Web videos to TV

Damian Perez recorded digital video of his son, now 11 months old, when he was born, when he started eating and when he started crawling. Next, the Shoreham, N.Y., father and CPA wanted to watch the video on his living room TV.

Not so fast.

The Apple TV he had bought to view his digital video wouldn't support the format of the videos he had stored on his computer. So he had to first convert the files.

"It was definitely cumbersome, and I probably dedicated many more hours than I should have (converting)," says Perez. "All I want to do is show my videos, pictures and music on any TV in the house."

So in a bid to solve his file format problems, he preordered an upcoming device called a ZvBox. The gadget, from ZeeVee Inc. of Littleton, Mass., connects to a PC and the home's cable wiring. The device then displays whatever is on the PC screen onto an unused TV channel -- which can be viewed from any cable-connected TV in the home. ZeeVee expects to start shipping the $500 device July 31.

ZeeVee is just one of a number of startup companies that will be introducing set-top boxes or software in the coming weeks that will let consumers see on TV their digital photos, videos and other content from their personal computers or the Internet. While Internet-connected set-top boxes have been available for years, the companies say these latest products are sleeker, more affordable and easier to use. And many of the newer technologies claim to work with far more digital formats that existing devices.

Still, there are limits to these new set-top boxes. There are myriad formats and encryption methods for videos on the Web and on computers, meaning some videos may still not be accessible. And there's plenty of competition in the field, furthering the confusion.

Device makers are trying to tap into a small-but-growing market for Internet-enabled set-top boxes. The number of households with a device enabling Internet video on their TV is expected to increase worldwide to 300 million in 2012 from about 45 million last year, according to IMS Research.

Perhaps more important, they are responding to a desire among consumers to combine activities conducted online with watching television. A 2007 survey from market researcher Yankee Group found that nearly 62 percent of all people surf the Web on their computers while watching TV. But among 13- to 17-year-olds, the percentage is 73 percent; of the viewers between ages 18 and 24, 72 percent surf while watching TV, according to the survey.

Another set-top technology expected to be released this summer is from Icron Technologies Corp. The Burnaby, Canada, company plans to sell a chipset to set-top box manufacturers and others that connects to the computer's high-speed USB port to display the PC screen on a TV set. The box would transmit the data wirelessly or over the electrical wiring in the home. Robert Eisses, chief executive of Icron, says a device using the chipset should sell for about $300.

And a set-top box called the Pod bypasses the PC altogether, for those who mainly want to watch Web video. It will allow viewers to search the Internet and stream online videos directly onto their TV sets. Made by Verismo Networks Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., the Pod is expected to be available in August for $99. Prakash Bhalerao, the start-up's chief executive, says the Pod comes with a program guide and search functions to help viewers find and play almost any video on the Internet.

Instead of set-top hardware, some companies are introducing software that lets viewers use a remote control to easily see their videos when their PC is connected to their television.

A New York-based start-up named Boxee last month started letting consumers download a version of its free software for Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers. Consumers who download the software and connect their computer to the TV using a special cable can play personal digital content, such as movies and music, as well as see content on the Web. Boxee says its software will be available on PCs running Windows later this year.

Similar to Boxee is OSXBMC, a free, open-source software program designed for Macs. In April, Chris Pirvan, a San Francisco-based engineer, downloaded OSXBMC and installed it onto a Mac mini, a compact and low-cost personal computer that is connected to his TV. Pirvan says he mainly wants to access digital copies of television shows he has stored on a connected storage device as well as Google Inc.'s popular video site YouTube.

Developers of Boxee and OSXBMC, which this month was rebranded Plex, say the programs play more formats than rival products directly from Apple, such as Front Row and Apple TV. Apple declined to comment for this article.

For those who already subscribe to set-top services, expansion to the Internet is on the way. TiVo Inc., which makes digital video recorders, has been steadily adding Web content to its set-top boxes since the start of this year, including YouTube, which it added last week. In March, TiVo released its Desktop Plus software for $25 that when installed on a PC can translate many formats of Internet video to play on TiVo and then send it to the set-top box.

Netflix Inc. and Vudu Inc. both use set-top boxes to stream movies over the Internet to a subscribers' television, but the titles are restricted to the companies' movie databases. This month, Netflix and Microsoft Corp. inked a deal where owners of the Xbox 360 can use the videogame console to stream movies and other programming from the Internet to their TVs.

Research still indicates that the idea of connecting a PC to the TV seems a daunting and cumbersome task for most consumers. According to a 2007 study of 2000 U.S. homes conducted by Parks Associates, a market researcher, just 2.5 percent had a PC connected to a TV in the living room.

That's one of the reasons television manufacturers are making the sets themselves Internet accessible. Companies such as Panasonic Corp. of North America, Sony Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. in recent months have added Web content to their Internet-connected TVs. Panasonic launched a series of flat-panel TVs in May that can access YouTube. Since the start of the year, Sony has added YouTube and CBS to its list of Internet offerings for TV owners.

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Peeking Inside The iPhone

Apple has the entire semiconductor industry wrapped around its little finger.

The 3G iPhone is out. Soon after, analysts scrambled to take the phone apart to pinpoint the major component suppliers for the device.

According to iSuppli, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) is spending $174.33 on components plus $50 in intellectual property royalties per unit. That hefty chunk of expenses doesn't even include the cost of assembly or a margin thick enough to pay all those Apple engineers. The unsubsidized selling price of the new iPhone is $399 for the 8 gigabyte model and $499 for the 16 gigabyte device.

Join the discussion: Whom do you see benefiting from the booming iPhone sales? Will hardware or software vendors become the iPhone's prime beneficiaries? Tell us what you think in the Readers Comments below.

Teardown analysis shows Infineon Technologies (nyse: IFX - news - people ) and Triquint Semiconductor (nasdaq: TQNT - news - people ) as the two biggest winners. Infineon provides the digital baseband processor, a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System transceiver chip, a power management chip and a global positioning system chip--an amazing total of four sockets. Triquint provides three power amplifier chips.

Samsung still provides the application processor; Broadcom (nasdaq: BRCM - news - people ) has the touchscreen controller chip.

Samsung will, likely, eventually lose this socket since it is viewed as a potential competitor to Apple in the smart phone market, but for now it remains a key beneficiary of the 3G iPhone. Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) is after this socket with its Atom chip. So, too, is long-time rival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ). This week, AMD's new chief executive announced his intention of going after the customers Intel hopes to woo with its Atom chip.

And don't forget about Broadcom.

Broadcom currently has a touchscreen controller inside the 3G iPhone, as it did in the phone's first version. But it also indirectly benefits from Infineon's design win with its the GPS solution.

The Hammerhead II GPS chip was developed by Infineon in partnership with Global Locate, which was bought by Broadcom. Since there is a revenue sharing agreement in place with Infineon, Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger expects Broadcom to reap between 3% to 4% sequential revenue growth in the third quarter from sales of the iPhone and iPod Touch. On July 22, Broadcom reported a strong second quarter that topped analyst estimates.

I pegged the Broadcom stock as a bargain back in March, and since then the stock has risen quite a bit. My guess: It will move further up as functionality starts to consolidate from the board to the chip. The stock is currently trading around $28 with a market cap of about $14 billion. Our valuation analysis pegs the stock at $39.30.

Going forward, there is going to be more consolidation of various functions now on the motherboard into single chips, and in that convergence device movement, Broadcom and Infineon are both strong contenders. Infineon announces earnings on July 25.

On the memory side of the equation, once again, Samsung seems to be the big beneficiary. Apple, which sold about a million 3G iPhones in the first weekend alone, has reportedly placed an order for 50 million 8 gigabyte NAND Flash chips with Samsung, following an order of 25 million chips in June.

Samsung has recently made efforts to reduce oversupply of NAND, and this huge order would lead to its reducing supply to other customers. The NAND market has been reeling under falling prices and oversupply despite increasing demand. There are reports that Apple might change this situation with the huge demand for 3G iPhones and its ripple effect.

The companies on our list are not the direct component suppliers to Apple, but, rather, those most likely are reaping royalties due to their intellectual property positions: Qualcomm (nasdaq: QCOM - news - people ), InterDigital and Tessera. (Full disclosure: Tessera is a stock I own. I have also consulted for the company.)

Interdigital licensed an undisclosed amount of intellectual property to Apple last year, but details are scarce. Interdigital reports earnings in early August. Tessera still owns patents for chip packaging that enable electronics miniaturization. I'd bet it is reaping royalties from iPhone sales too--and will until its key chip scale packaging patent expires in 2010.

Finally, Qualcomm may also be cashing a significant chunk of Apple's $50-per-unit royalty fees. I estimate that Qualcomm could be making as much as $20 on every 8 gigabyte (and $25 on the 16 gigabyte) phone. The company owns a substantial 3G IP portfolio, and stands to make royalty on every code division multiple access-based phone.

Investors cheered Wednesday when Qualcomm at last settled its long-standing patent dispute with Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ). Qualcomm is currently trading at around $45, though our estimated valuation is closer to $50. Qualcomm flew up to a new 52-week high of $54.51 Thursday morning, on the wings of the Nokia settlement and the 3G iPhone.

Many of these vendors planning their lives around the iPhone are also wondering what Steve Jobs has up his sleeves regarding Apple's own semiconductor plans. There has not yet been any hint from Apple about how it will use its $278 million acquisition of microprocessor design company PA Semi. Since the company still has a $20.8 billion cash reserve, Jobs could acquire a few other key component vendors.

And that's just the hardware side. Jobs himself has said that Apple's secret sauce is software. Apple's alliances with vertical application developers will become another important trend to watch.

Join the discussion: Whom do you see benefiting from the booming iPhone sales? Will hardware or software vendors become the iPhone's prime beneficiaries? Tell us what you think in the Readers Comments below.

Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies and writes a business blog, Sramana Mitra on Strategy. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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