Intel invests in effort to bring PC gaming to TVs

Posted Sep 27th 2009 3:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Hardware

The idea of the living room PC where people can play PC games on their big screen televisions is a dream that's been around for a long time. However it's never really gotten mainstream traction. Now PC processor maker Intel is using its big investment mucles to a new effort called GameTree.TV, a games-on-demand project from company TransGaming.

You may have heard of TransGaming. They have created software to allow a number of PC games to run natively on Macs and Linux boxes. Now they are working on this new effort which will use a set-top box (powered by Intel's CE Media Processor) to allow PC games to be downloaded and played on demand for a person's TV. Specific financial details on Intel's investment in GameTree.TV were not disclosed. TransGaming hopes to launch GameTree.TV sometime in the second quarter of 2010.

Tags: gametree.tv, gametreetv, intel, transgaming

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Why not just use a HTPC form-factor PC?Posted at 6:53PM on Sep 27th 2009 by Einhanderkiller

They should just start adding Light Peak ports to new televisions:
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htmPosted at 7:09PM on Sep 27th 2009 by open0source