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ADB and Osmosys combine to achieve DLNA® certification and UPnP™
certification for home networking solution, ensuring
interoperability between consumer electronics devices throughout the
home.
Other Topics:
TVoDSL,
IPTV Convergence Encoding Solution, Digital Home Alliance
Advanced Digital Broadcast
December 12, 2007
Geneva, Switzerland -- Advanced Digital Broadcast, a leading
supplier of digital TV systems and software solutions for
interactive television, announced today that its latest
home-networking enabled digital video recorder (DVR), the ADB-5000
series, powered by Osmosys (www.osmosys.tv) HomeNet software, has
gained certification from the Digital Living Network Alliance™
(DLNA®) (www.dlna.org ). The combined home networking solution will
ensure, simple, fast and effective networking of compatible devices
in and throughout the home. The DLNA® comprises a number of leading,
world-wide consumer electronics, computing industry and mobile
device companies who share the same goal – to enable an environment
for the seamless sharing of new digital media and content services
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The ADB and Osmosys
solution is one of the first to implement and be granted DLNA® v1.5
certification, and will allow ADB’s set-top boxes and DVRs to share
content, such as video, photos and music with other DLNA® certified
devices around the home. The solution will ensure that digital
television operators can deliver convenient and flexible content
sharing to their customers with the additional peace-of-mind of
having an industry recognised certification based on interoperable
standards.
DLNA® certification ensures interoperability between devices as it
is based on open standards and allows consumers to actively share
their digital content with different devices around the home. For
example, a DLNA Certified™ device connected to the ADB-5000 series
DVR with Osmosys software will be able to access previously recorded
content on the hard disk drive and play it back from any location
providing a great deal of flexibility. The solution has also
achieved UPnP™ (www.upnp-ic.org) certification – UPnP™ is specified
by the DLNA to provide simple and effective device networking in the
home – a second endorsement of ADB’s progress in the sector. All of
ADB’s product solutions are compatible with the industry’s leading
conditional access (CA) and Digital Rights Management (DRM)
solutions to ensure complete network security.
ADB has witnessed great interest from digital television operators
towards home networking; DLNA® certification further endorses ADB’s
position in having a market-ready solution. Due to the modularity in
the software, the solution can be ported independent of middleware
and conditional access solution to enable digital television
operators to offer attractive, value-added features to consumers and
the company will make DLNA Certified™ devices available to operators
Q1 2008.
“We are delighted to be one of the first set-top box solution
providers to achieve these important certifications and therefore
able to offer standards based home networking”, commented Karl
Tempest-Mitchell, Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing at ADB.
“It is essential that ADB is in a position to offer solutions that
provide operators with new methods of differentiating their services
against their competition – the flexibility of standards-based,
content sharing achieves this as we move forward to the advent of
fully integrated home networks. Consumers have already embraced the
flexibility that new, soft media can offer and we believe that
content sharing across a home network is the next step in this
evolution”.
About the DLNA Alliance
www.dlna.org/en/industry/pressroom/
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