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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Intel designs Entertainment PC

"One of the first products to come out of [Intel's consumer] effort will be the Entertainment PC, or EPC, a fully-fledged Windows XP Media Center PC that more closely resembles a VCR. There is no keyboard, and people operate it with a remote control. Instead of having its own screen, it sits on top of a television set. Ideally, consumers will use these as a vault for storing music, viewing pictures or video, or recording TV programs just as a TiVo box does," reports CNet.

"Intel designed the machine but is licensing it to PC makers."

Comment: presumably this will be something like the UK-designed Media Center PCs from companies such as Hugh Symons Computing Solutions....

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