Back in February 2013, Intel unveiled ambitious plans to enter the online TV market. Now those plans appear to be in trouble-- according to AllThingsD the company might scrap the project should it fail to find a partner in the near future.
Anonymous sources say Intel is in talks with Amazon and Samsung, in the hope of getting help of the both funding and distribution variety. The two companies refuse to comment on the story, at least for now.
In development at a separate media division formed by over 300 ex-Apple, Jawbone, BBC and Microsoft employees, the Intel take on "over the top" pay TV services was to provide live TV via the internet (with smaller channel bundles than what cable companies offer) and a "Catch Up TV" video-on-demand services.
The company also revealed the services uses the high-efficiency H.265 video compression format (formerly known as HEVC), a codec the majority of STBs lack the power to decode.