Aimed squarely at making the TV a simple, interactive hub of the digital home media network, the Digital Interactive Interface for Video & Audio™ (DiiVA™) consortium today announced availability of the DiiVA 1.0 specification.
Adobe Systems Incorporated announced that they have extened the Adobe® Flash® Platform to connected digital home devices with an optimized implementation of Flash technology that delivers high definition (HD) video and rich applications to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices in the digital living room.
Triazz, a software solutions supplier of connected multimedia devices, and RMI, a provider of high-performance processors for communication and media rich applications, announced their partnership in developing a turnkey Home Media Player (HMP) solution.
Cisco announced that they will be using their Medianet cable service provider to deliver next generation digital home content. The medianet service provider is an intelligent network optimized for rich media that can help drive video strategy for enterprises, consumers and service providers. Cisco is the only company that, along with our partners, can address rich media from an end-to-end perspective by taking advantage of deep expertise in IP networking, video and consumer premise solutions.
Digeo, manufacturer of Moxi HD DVR and Moxi Cable today announced new features and enhancements to the Moxi High Definition Digital Video Recorder (HD DVR), further advancing the world's best DVR. The Moxi HD DVR has new services available directly from the on-screen menu including Internet video from YouTube, Netflix, Hulu and more streaming directly to the TV through MediaMall Technologies' PlayOn media server software as well as the streaming digital music service from Rhapsody.
According to this months issue of NewScientist magazine homes in Japan are to start installing digital wallpaper, before the end of this year. This is a very interesting concept, the ability to change the colour and theme of your decor whenever you want to.
Ubicom announced release of a new networked audio reference design for the digital home. Ubicom a leading developer and provider of system-level solutions to OEMs for a wide range of products including wireless routers, access points, VoIP gateways, streaming media devices, print servers and other network devices.
Trident Microsystems, a leader in high-performance semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Micronas Semiconductor Holding AG to acquire selected assets of the frame rate converter, demodulator and audio product lines of Micronas' Consumer Division. The consideration payable to Micronas will consist of 7.0 million shares of Trident common stock and warrants to acquire up to 3.0 million additional Trident shares.
+FrameChannel is a new service from Frame Media, Inc, an Internet platform for emerging devices in the "connected home," launches +FrameChannel as an easy way to syndicate content onto the FrameChannel platform.
Western Digital has entered the Media Player market with their WDTV Media Player. We are seeing a steady stream of announcement from home systems manufactures; I was last month that Western Digital announced their new the My Book World Edition NAS drive for the Connected Home market.