Smart Home (connected home, home networking) News

Toshiba Corporation to bring its leading-edge technologies to CEATEC
Sep 26, 2008 – Toshiba (Tokyo:6502) has announced the product and technology innovations that it will spotlight at CEATEC. TVs empowered with the Cell/B.E. multi-core processor take visual entertainment to a new level.
News categories: Toshiba, DVD, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Sling Media Begins Shipping Slingbox PRO-HD
Sep 25, 2008 – Sling Media (NASDAQ:SATS) has announced its Slingbox™ PRO-HD in the USA and Canada. The Slingbox PRO-HD is capable of streaming HD content from a home television source to a laptop or desktop computer in and around the house.
News categories: Sling Media, Canada, Digital TV, Placeshifting, Smart Home, USA

Motorola Makes Media Mobility A Reality With Launch Of Multimedia Set Top Platform
Sep 25, 2008 – Set top boxes based on a new Motorola (NYSE: MOT) multimedia platform allow users to transfer content to and from a mobile phone. KDDI (Tokyo: 9433) is launching a new service 'au BOX' using set tops based on the platform.
News categories: Motorola, KDDI, Digital TV, DVR, Japan, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

Macrovision Signs Tru2way™ Implementer's and OpenCable™ Contribution Agreements with CableLabs®
Sep 16, 2008 – Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN) has announced that it has signed a tru2way™ Implementer's Agreement with CableLabs®. The agreement will permit the company to build products based on CableLabs' tru2way interactive cable architecture.
News categories: Macrovision, tru2way, Cable TV, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, USA

NEOTION Pocket Recorder: the original credit card size Digital VCR that simply slots into your Flat idTV set!
Sep 13, 2008 – The NEOTION Pocket Recorder (NPR) is the first SD-Card based digital recorder for TVs. The NPR allows control over Live TV (pause and rewind), digital recording, and Ethernet connection to the PC, all in a low cost plug-in card.
News categories: NEOTION, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Media Player, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

EchoStar Europe goes 'beyond the box' with unique 'however, wherever and whenever' set-top box innovations at IBC2008
Sep 12, 2008 – EchoStar Europe (NASDAQ: SATS) plans to launch a range of device functionalities at IBC2008 including 'Set-top Box Health' diagnostics, an 'Advertising Behavioural Measurement' system and exclusive Sling Media™ place-shifting and home-networking.
News categories: EchoStar, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Placeshifting, Set Top Box, Smart Home

SoftAtHome Strengthens its Solution with Bluestreak Technology to Provide Further Innovation in the Digital Home
Sep 12, 2008 – SoftAtHome has announced that it has licensed Bluestreak Technology's MachBlue™ platform. MachBlue runs Flash®-formatted files with a series of custom ActionScript functions on iTV, set-top boxes (STBs), Web tablets and mobile devices.
News categories: Bluestreak, SoftAtHome, Digital TV, Gateway, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV

Tilgin radically reduces the cost for Personal Video Recorder enabled IPTV services
Sep 12, 2008 – Tilgin (Stockholm: TILG) has announced a new cost-optimized Mood 400 IP Set-top that greatly reduces operator costs for deploying a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) enabled IPTV service.
News categories: Tilgin, Content Distribution, DVR, IBCShow, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Experience the best in digital TV with Pace @ IBC
Sep 12, 2008 – At IBC, Pace (LSE:PIC) will be demonstrating how it is bringing the worlds of broadcast and broadband closer together as we move towards convergence in home entertainment technologies.
News categories: Pace plc, Broadband, IBCShow, IPTV, Set Top Box, Smart Home