Intel recently confirmed some details about its upcoming TV device and over-the-top (OTT) TV service, declined to comment on others, and revealed that its planned set top box won't include facial recognition technology. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Eric Huggers, the head of Intel Media, said the chip giant's upcoming TV device would be just one part of an "Internet-based service that doesn't only serve up on-demand programs but overhauls live TV as well." The proposed service, being stitched together by a 350-person team under Huggers' leadership, would involve a massive back-end server operation "to record every piece of programming aired—local, national, and international—and store it for at least three days in the cloud," the Journal reported. Users of Intel's device could tap into those servers to view anything aired on TV in the past several days, with the ability to go back to the start of programs they're viewing without a local DVR. "This is live TV, but you can rewind it," Huggers told the paper. Read more here --> pcmag.com
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