Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Amino Communications | Subject: AmiNET500
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 November 2004
Middleware provides personal video recorder
Amino Communications today announced the availability of two major middleware applications for its AmiNET500 IPTV (Internet protocol TV) set-top box with integral PVR (personal video recorder)
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Amino Communications has added two major middleware applications for its AmiNET500 IPTV (Internet protocol TV) set-top box with integral PVR (personal video recorder). The new Minerva iTVManager 2 and Myrio Interactive 3.5 client software have now been ported to the AmiNET500, enabling telcos to seamlessly upgrade subscriber offerings to include PVR functions on live television broadcasts.
These include scheduled record from EPG, viewing one channel while recording another, pause, fast-forward and reverse, and slow motion frame-by-frame.
Both applications were demonstrated at TelcoTV in Orlando, Florida.
"PVR is a critical feature for broadband service providers to offer to their subscribers".
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"The timing of our launch positions us well as market adoption and deployment heats up".
"We are pleased to add the AmiNET500 to the list of Amino set-top boxes supported by the Myrio iDK", commented Ryan Petty, Vice President of Product Management at Myrio.
Roy Kirsopp, CEO of Amino Communications added: "Our close working relationship with middleware providers benefits the telcos, and their television subscribers, as we are able to offer new features like PVR which are fully integrated with their existing systems.
Our customers are already showing strong demand as they can now offer subscribers the AmiNET500 PVR as an upgrade option".
"PVR is generating a lot of interest in the IPTV market - once again, by working closely with Amino, we will provide a robust and tightly integrated solution to our customers", said Jean-Georges Fritsch, COO of Minerva Networks.
The AmiNET500 is a recent addition to Amino's award winning range of small, low-cost, high performance IPTV set-top boxes and contains an 80Gbyte hard disk drive which is capable of storing around 40 hours of programme material.
It measures just 184 x 240 x 56mm and combines IPTV decoder functions with a full-featured PVR, and ability to stream content to other devices.
The cornerstone of the Minerva IP Television Headend, Minerva iTVManager is a carrier-class, highly scalable interactive television services management suite.
iTVManager performs all of the operations necessary to manage the delivery of advanced television services, including live TV, video-on-demand (VOD), subscription-VOD (SVOD), pay-per-view (PPV) and personal video recorder (PVR).
Myrio Interactive is an end-user software application for set-top boxes that enables subscribers to watch digital TV, order a movie, listen to digital music, check the weather, and browse the web through their televisions.
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