Who needs Intel Viiv and AMD Live?

[Bob Crabtree]

The rise and rise of broadband, digital media downloads and around-the-home streaming are helping to make the latest version of Microsoft's Windows XP Media Center Edition a sensible option rather than the duck-out-of-water that other versions seemed to be. But are the personal computer industry's two bitter CPU rivals muddying the pond with their enhancements to MCE - Intel ViiV and AMD Live?

That's the question we've been debating among ourselves of late and it's recently been posed publicly by siliconvalley.com columnist Mike Langberg and taken up by Jeremy Reimer over at arstechnica.com. Langberg and Reimer are largely agreed that confusion is set to reign among consumers because of these selfish initiatives - and it's hard to fault their reasoning.

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Do you agree or think that Intel and/or AMD are moving the digital home forward, rather than slowing it down?

[Bob Crabtree]

Glad to know we're all cool about this!

[herulach]

To be fair, it seems to be a bit mountain out of a molehill, you dont see people getting confused about centrino.

And were in that situation with music downloads now, the number of people i know who use itunes store (or default settings and rip to aac) and then complain they cant play them on their non apple players.

Until theres one unified platform for everything (which i sincerly hope is never the case) then joe average is gonna be confused, theres nothing anyone can do about it.