LAS VEGAS — The push toward home networking continued at CES yesterday, as Intel and Sharp demonstrated a prototype LCD television that links to a PC and to the Internet. Intel engineers at the show used a TV remote control to show how the high-definition Sharp Aquos could be connected to an Intel Viiv PC, and subsequently to the Internet, to download and view an episode of the television show, "Heroes."
"Rather than being linked directly to the broadcast, I can now download it to my PC and watch it anytime I want to," noted Bryan Peebler, capability manager for Intel's Consumer PC Group.
Intel engineers said that the heart of the networked system is its Core 2 Quad Processor, which the company has begun to market to mainstream PC buyers. With four processing cores, the Core 2 Quad showed that it is able to simultaneously handle multiple tasks.
"You can do a virus scan while watching high-definition content or yoy can play a game and run Photoshop," Peebler said. "Multi-cores are particularly good at multi-processing."
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