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Streaming21, SAMPO and Microsoft Taiwan Announce Digital Home
Alliance
Other Topics:
IPTV Home Networking Certification,
TVoDSL,
IPTV Convergence Encoding Solution
Streaming21
December 13, 2007
Unveil Windows Home Server Innovations at SAMPO Press Conference
Taipei, Taiwan -- Streaming21, the world leader in broadcast-quality
streaming solutions, Sampo (TSE:1604), the leading 3C brand for
electrical home appliances, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: "MSFT") Taiwan
held a press conference today to announce the formation of the
Digital Home Alliance and publicly debut co-developed digital home
innovations. The companies are bringing to market end-to-end digital
home solutions aimed at connecting the digital home with the
networked world via "killer" applications developed by Streaming21,
based on recently released Microsoft Home Server and fully
integrated with Sampo consumer electronics. |
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Eric Chen, Chairman of
Sampo said, "Digital home ecosystem integration is the key factor
for success in the future of the digital home. Sampo, Streaming21
and Microsoft Taiwan have worked closely throughout the product
integration and development cycles to create compelling digital home
innovations unlike any others on the market today. We believe they
will add value and differentiate our consumer appliances sold around
the world."
At the press conference, Sampo will showcase its branded Home Server
appliance which enables compelling services on newly launched
digital home appliances like the IP Refrigerator, IP-STB and 42" LCD
Full HDTV (supporting 1080p with HDMI) which features embedded STB
and supports DLNA and UPnP standards via wired or wireless networks.
The open web-based platform makes it easy to add unlimited
applications for service expansions and allows users to subscribe
their preferred services via Home Server. This unique Home Server
allows users to manage personal content (such as photos, videos and
music), enjoy internet community content (web photo albums and video
sharing for example) and display real-time internet content
(Internet news, weather, stocks and more) on TVs. It also offers
many intriguing features such as Personal Video Recording (PVR),
streaming music, IPTV, VOD and many more. The open web-based
platform makes it easy to add unlimited applications for service
expansions. Personal broadcasting and commercial content services
such as Internet radio, movie rentals or home karaoke services are
forthcoming.
Also in the spotlight is Sampo's Internet Refrigerator, which can
act as the central control center for the kitchen. The Internet
Refrigerator, with a 15" touch screen panel enables many interesting
new services such as food management, on-demand cooking tutorials
and recipes, video on demand, RSS feeds, streaming music, and more.
Internet radio, IP surveillance and other communication features
will be available soon.
To drive the digital home market worldwide, Streaming21, Sampo and
the Microsoft Windows Home Server Team will continue to build and
expand a solid digital home ecosystem through this strategic
partnership.
About Streaming21
Streaming21 is the world leader in providing interactive IPTV and
Digital Home solutions over Fixed-Mobile-Convergence (FMC) and open
networks. The solutions successfully enable fixed, mobile, or xSP
operators to generate revenues from services delivered across
heterogeneous networks. Streaming21's groundbreaking technologies
enable digital video entertainment anytime, anywhere and on any
device. Built upon a revolutionary and patented architecture,
Streaming21's solutions enable the deployment of rich-media services
with carrier-class scalability, 24/7 operations, and
broadcast-quality delivery. The solutions use standard hardware to
lower the total cost of ownership and can deliver content to more
users concurrently with patented technologies. The platform is open
and flexible to readily integrate value-added services. To learn
more about Streaming21's solutions and industry leading partners,
please visit www.streaming21.com.
About Sampo
Sampo is the leading 3C branding and
manufacturer company for electrical home appliances. The company is
committed to deliver industry-leading combination of quality,
reliability and value as well as commercial channels to consumers.
Sampo provides a variety of consumer electronics including Display
(LCD TV, PDP) and Home Appliance (Air conditioner, Refrigerator,
Microwave oven, Home Server and Washing Machine). Sampo also has its
branding company, Maxent headquartered in California in the US,
delivering its consumer-focused, price-leading Maxent products
through retail and warehouse stores nationwide. To learn more about
Sampo, please visit www.sampo.com.tw.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader
in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses
realize their full potential. MS-DOS, .NET, Office XP, 2007 Office
system, Windows, Windows Server, Windows 3.0, Windows 95, Windows
98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista are registered
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. To learn more about Microsoft,
please visit www.microsoft.com.
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