Smart Home (connected home, home networking) News

IP Vision Signs Agreement with Entriq for Hybrid Platform
Sep 7, 2007 – IP Vision, the UK's independent hybrid DTT/IPTV specialists, has announced an agreement with Entriq, the world leader in pay media, to build a fully integrated service for the delivery of on-demand video content directly to digital terrestrial TV receivers.
News categories: Broadband, Content Protection, Digital TV, DVR, IBCShow, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, Terrestrial, UK

Texas Instruments and Thomson Showcase Video over IP Services in Inaugural IPTV Zone at IBC 2007
Sep 7, 2007 – Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) and Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS) are working together to create inventive products for digital video customers based on TI's DaVinci™ technology and Thomson's leading expertise in digital video technologies.
News categories: Texas Instruments, Thomson, Digital TV, IBCShow, IPTV, Semiconductor, Smart Home, Tablet

Nokia Siemens Networks and Intel jointly expand IPTV solution with Home Networking
Sep 7, 2007 – At IBC in Amsterdam, September 6 - 11, 2007, Intel and Nokia Siemens Networks will demonstrate Digital Home Networking features that enable simplified content access.
News categories: Broadband, IBCShow, IPTV, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Pace demonstrates standards-based whole home digital TV using DLNA
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology (LSE:PIC) has announced that it will be joined at IBC by Macrovision to demonstrate how operators can use Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) specifications to enable a whole home multiroom offering for their subscribers.
News categories: Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Pace & Inxstor showcase place-shifting technology for operators
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro (LSE:PIC) and Inxstor, developers of a unique embedded secure place-shifting system, are demonstrating at IBC2007 how content stored on a personal video recorder (PVR) in the home can be accessed using 'place-shifting' technology over the internet.
News categories: Pace Micro Technology, Inxstor, Broadband, Digital TV, DRM, DVR, IBCShow, Media Player, Middleware, Placeshifting, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Software, Streaming, UK

Pace unveils WiMAX solution for delivery of content to and around the home
Sep 7, 2007 – Pace Micro Technology plc (LSE:PIC) is demonstrating at IBC2007 how 802.16 delivery to the home can be combined with 802.11 distribution in the home, to provide operators with a truly wireless content delivery solution and expand their service footprint.
News categories: Broadband, Digital TV, IBCShow, Semiconductor, Smart Home

Broadcom® Bluetooth® Platform Enables Innovative Applications in Home Entertainment
Sep 7, 2007 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced a new platform that it will demonstrate at IBC2007 in Amsterdam, combining popular Broadcom® Bluetooth® wireless solutions with the company's industry leading digital cable and satellite television set-top box (STB) technologies.
News categories: IBCShow, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home

Content Mangement Specification Gets Debut at IBC
Sep 7, 2007 – The publication of the latest revision to DVB BlueBook A094 - Content Protection & Copy Management (DVB-CPCM) in August, along with the first ever public demonstration of aspects of DVB-CPCM at this year's IBC, signals a second major milestone in the work of the DVB on a specification for persistent protection of commercial content in consumer digital products and home networks.
News categories: Content Protection, Digital TV, DVD, Gaming, IBCShow, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smartphone, Streaming, Tablet

Breakthrough in Media Freedom: Apple TV Functionality to Be Available on an OEM Basis
Sep 5, 2007 – C2 Microsystems and Orb Networks have announced a new reference platform that delivers digital media from the internet or a consumer's PC, to the TV. The open design is expected to be licensed on an OEM basis by set top box, Cable, Satellite and Media providers and deliver consumer TV and media options far beyond those offered by Apple TV or Sling Media.
News categories: Orb Networks, C2 Micro, Digital TV, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, Tablet