NEOTION Pocket Recorder: the original credit card size Digital VCR that simply slots into your Flat idTV set!

AMSTERDAM — The Neotion Pocket Recorder (NPR) is the very first miniature digital recorder for TV sets that is leveraging on ubiquitous SD-Cards. Get control over Live TV (pause and rewind), proceed digital recording of the programs, enables seamless PC/TV path, “¦ at last a truly simple and discreet low cost device that shall enable the masses to step into the Television of the Future experience!

No need anymore to acquire an expensive HDD based PVR to start getting fun over controlling live TV: the NEOTION Pocket Recorder shall be available below €90 street price. With a simple memory card of 4, 8, 16 or even 32 GB (SD Card format being today the most popular and the less expensive one), the NPR shall enable a wide audience to get access to the time-shifting function. Users could then pause the Live – the TV program being temporarily stored on the SD Card. Thereafter, one could carry on watching this recorded content as normal, or navigate into it using the fast forward & rewind trick modes, and even catch back at anytime the real live emission.

At last an ultra simplified Digital VCR: with the NEOTION Pocket Recorder, we are luckily back into the old time simplicity of use of the VHS Tape Recorder – but this time with a pure Digital Quality! While the VHS recorders had eventually performed to enter in next to all TV households, Digital PVR are today mainly deployed through Pay TV operators, and are unfortunately often over engineered and too complex to use for the majority of the people. With the NEOTION Pocket Recorder, everything gets so simple! Thanks to its few basic functions, it is possible to record, to store, to watch and to erase TV programs on the SD-Card using your TV remote control and an easy, intuitive, but efficient, navigation menu.

Do turn out your legacy LCD or Plasma idTV set”¦ into a real TV Media Center; and then simply access with your TV remote control to any distant PC resources connected throughout your Home! The NEOTION Pocket Recorder can also serve – thanks to the Neotion TV Media Player freely bundled – as a Media Center enabling the seamless connection of one or more PC Computers to the TV set. Using a straight Ethernet cable, or other means like wireless WiFi or even Power Line (HomePlug), one can hook his network to his main TV set, and from there onward, enjoy in the living-room with family & friends all of the multimedia contents remotely stored on his PCs (being photos, music, videos, Web TV or radios, Web 2.0¹“¦) – thus via an ultra simplified navigation scheme and without having to bother with the multiple codec used. Doing so, it becomes also possible to upload the contents recorded on the SD-Card to the PC, for either later uses – like video editing purposes – or even for burning DVD to create a personal video library.

Thanks to the NEOTION Pocket Recorder, Time Shifting, SD-Card recordings and PC/TV Convergence are all happening right into your Flat TV in the living-room, so simply, and without cluttering the place with cables, neither any new big extra Box. These are often complex, they draw much power, and they are still expensive to purchase”¦ NEOTION keeps on shaping, in particular through an active participation into essential Industry Standardization organizations such as the CI+ Forum (together with Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, Philips, and Smardtv), a bunch of innovative and scalable solutions sustainably aiming at digital convergence, TV centric streamlines approaches, and ease of use.

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