[opendtv] Motorola Announces Home Media Architecture, Extending DigitalVideo Recording Capabilities Throughout the Home
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:32:38 -0400
Motorola Announces Home Media Architecture, Extending Digital
Video Recording Capabilities Throughout the Home
- May 3, 2004 08:04 AM (PR Newswire)
Motorola's Solution Provides a Cost-Effective Way to Share Digital
Entertainment Programming Across 'Connected Home' Devices
NEW ORLEANS, May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT)
today announced that it has extended the functionality of its industry-leading
digital set-top platform with the introduction of the Motorola Home Media
Architecture (HMA). Providing cost-effective hardware and software solutions,
Motorola HMA enables operators to bring the experience of multi-room digital
video recording (DVR) and media distribution functionality to their
subscribers.
As part of Motorola's "connected home" strategy, Motorola HMA allows
consumers to enjoy access to stored media on connected devices throughout the
home. Motorola's highly scaleable and extensible architecture enables
operators to deploy a basic multi-room DVR solution by leveraging legacy
digital set-tops and currently deployed interactive program guide (IPG) or
video on demand (VOD) applications. The architecture also provides a growth
path to enable advanced services and capabilities utilizing technology from
Ucentric Systems, a provider of home media networking software.
These advanced capabilities of HMA, enabled by Ucentric Systems Multi-TV
DVR technology, add a new level of in-home media networking. In addition to
enhanced multi-room DVR functionality such as management of recording and
viewing resources across the entire home network, advanced HMA leverages
standards based IP technology to enable subscribers to connect a range of
compatible devices through their in-home network. Consumers will be able to
configure set-tops, digital cameras, camcorders, mp3 players, laptops, PCs and
mobile phones through a simple user interface.
With a Java-based open architecture for applications, the advanced
capabilities of Motorola's HMA solution offers service providers the ability
to introduce new IP-based services in areas such as home security, home
monitoring, smart home management, remote education and remote health
management.
Motorola's basic multi-room architecture provides an easily-deployed
solution for the access of DVR content throughout the home. Specifically, the
solution enables content recorded on a DCT6208 or DCT6412 digital video
recorder set-top to be accessed from any HMA-enabled DCT digital set-top.
Further, the solution allows for the continued use of current program guides
and application suites.
Using IP-over-coaxial technology developed by Entropic for the Multimedia
over Coax Alliance (MoCA), the HMA enables "whole-home" networking for core
and advanced digital set-tops already in the home. The Entropic technology
enables multiple standard and high-definition video and data services to be
simultaneously distributed throughout the home, over existing unmodified
coaxial cable, without the need for a service call by a technician.
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