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Soon to be release PURE North America new range of digital and internet-connected radios. It is not clear when these two radios will be in the shops. Below are the Sensia and Sirocco 550, PURE's line of next-generation connected radios which transform how we access, store, share and interact with digital entertainment such as music, internet radio and podcasts. These are two of the five digital radios PURE is planning to introduce to American market.

PURE has announced the release of three of their digital and internet-connected radios, which they hope to woo the US. The three models released are EVOKE Flow, Oasis Flow, and Siesta Flow.  These will be available for purchase within America from July 1, 2010. According to PURE, North America is a connected market and PURE radios will help consumers access, store, share and interact with digital entertainment such as music, internet radio and podcasts.

As part of their 100th anniversary Denon as announced the release of ten AV Receivers. They are release as part of the Retail Home Theater series and should be in the shops in the next coming months. These new models feature significant enhancement over previous models, first of all they come with HDMI 1.4s Repeater Inputs with 3D - as standard, Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) support and Audio Return Channel.

Denon is celebrating 100 years in business this year and has announced the release of two Blu-ray players and ten Audio/Video Receivers.  The new systems are due out in the coming months and promise the latest in home entertainment. Features include media streaming, auto firmware update and the ability to integrate with other home control systems.

MIPS announced this week that they are forming a collaborative partnership with Imagination Technologies.  Both companies will combine their specialist areas; MIPS, a specialist in processor architecture and cores for connected home devices and Imagination, a specialist in communication and multimedia (graphics and video) and the owners of POWERVR^tm, a Universal Scalable Shader Engine (USSE) base graphic accelerator.  MIPS

Sonic Solutions today introduced RoxioNow^tm, a wider technology platform to facilitate the new way of creating and enjoying media content.  According to Sonic the RoxioNow brand will replace CenimaNow as Sonic digital media solutions that it runs for it partners. Also RoxioNow is to offer more to businesses and consumers.

Seagate announced that they begun distributing Paramount movies on some of its FreeAgent Go portable hard drives.  The deal with Paramount Digital Entertainment has allowed Seagate to ship specially marked FreeAgent Go hard drives with some of Paramount’s movies.  Seagate said the drives are already available for purchase, with a free copy of Star Trek (2009).  Other titles are available but require you to buy the license to unlock and view

Which system would you use consolidate all the audio files on your home PC with those streaming from the web onto one system, and then play them through your central home entertainment system? No need to think too hard, NuVo Technologies has answered this question with the release of the Music Port Server. The Music Port Server has the capacity to store thousand of audio files and stream over 100,000 internet Radio Stations through Radio Times and other online media services.

Microsoft has announced that Silverlight is to be embedded as a System on Chip (SoC) solution for manufacturers and developers of set-top boxes, Blu-ray disc players, internet connected TVs and other connected home devices. Microsoft said they are working with Intel and Broadcom on the new architecture and visitor to this week’s NAB Show in Las Vega will see a demo version of the technology.
 

In an agreement with Cello, a manufacturer of LCD TVs, Sky the UKs leading digital TV supplier and 3View, a provider of hybrid DTT (digital Terrestrial Television) and IPTV set-top boxes; the Sky Player is to launch on a new range of set-top boxes and internet ready television sets.