September 03, 2005

Philips to Make Media Center PCs

Gateway, Dell, and HP are going to have some mainstream consumer electronics competition in the area of HTPCs.

Intel will supply a processor, chipset and software for a Philips media centre that will allow customers to store and share photos, music and video in a single system, as they promote digital products for the home.

The PC-based Philips Showline Media Center will include a card that allows users to watch two TV channels at once, as well as a 250-gigabyte hard disk drive for storing music and photo collections and a recorder for DVDs and CDs.