What more could the penurious industry want than putting the burden of connecting a plethora of broadband-enabled technology on the shoulders of the CE guys?
For one thing, a more accelerated timetable than the one laid out by Tony Werner, Comcast’s CTO, who said that if all goes right (which it rarely does), Silicon Image products would be ready for field trial deployments late in 2009. That depends on cooperation from a consumer electronics industry that has been burned so often by cable that it’s covered with ugly purple splotches.
“The CE industry is very interested in it simply because it simplifies their life,” said Steve Tirado, CEO of Silicon Image, who usually deals with CE manufacturers with his company’s core chips for high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI).
