Future is TV-shaped, says Intel
By Maggie Shiels
Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco

Intel said the TV of the future would require a lot of computing power

By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel.

It said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative.

“TV is out of the box and off the wall,” Justin Rattner, Intel’s chief technology officer, told BBC News.

“TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want.”

Mr Rattner said: “We are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet.

“People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven’t in the past.”

Speaking at Intel’s Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, he said the success of TV was due to the growing number of ways to consume content.

Today that includes everything from the traditional box in the corner of the living room to smartphones, laptops, netbooks, desktops and mobile internet devices.

Continuing the theme, Malachy Moynihan, Cisco’s vice-president of video product strategy, told IDF attendees to expect an explosion of content for such devices.

“We are seeing an amazing move of video to IP (internet) networks,” he said. “By 2013 90% of all IP traffic will be video; 60% of all video will be consumed by consumers over IP networks.”