Media Player News

Microsoft Unites Software and Cloud Services to Power New TV Experiences
Jan 6, 2010 – At the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is announcing Microsoft Mediaroom 2.0, the next version of the world's most deployed Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform.
News categories: Microsoft, Enrique Rodriguez, CES2025, Content Distribution, Digital TV, Gaming, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Streaming

AllGo Systems Partners with MIPS Technologies and Tensilica to Bring Android™ to Home Entertainment Devices
Jan 6, 2010 – AllGo Systems is working with MIPS Technologies and Tensilica to bring high-end media codec support with advanced multimedia features to MIPS-Based™ Android™ platforms for home entertainment and mobile consumer products based on Android.
News categories: AllGo Systems, CES2025, Media Player, Middleware, Semiconductor, Silicon IP, Smart Home, Streaming

DivX Launches New Internet TV Platform
Jan 6, 2010 – DivX (Nasdaq: DIVX) has announced the launch of DivX TV™, a comprehensive embedded Internet TV platform that provides access to a diverse line-up of online media content streamed directly to any connected device from any manufacturer.
News categories: DivX, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, Gaming, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Smart TV, Streaming

Next3D Announces Technology for Encoding and Playback of Stereoscopic 3D Content
Jan 6, 2010 – Next3D has announced a technology for encoding and decoding of stereoscopic 3D video content. The company's Compound-Entropy Stereoscopic Encoder (CESE) greatly reduces the redundant information in the left and right-eye views of stereoscopic video.
News categories: Next3D, CES2025, Content Distribution, Media Player, Metaverse, Streaming

Broadcom Extends Its MoCA-Integrated Product Family With a Low Cost HD Client Set-Top Box SoC
Jan 5, 2010 – Broadcom (Nasdaq: BRCM) has announced the latest addition to its Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA®)-integrated product family with the BCM7408 client high definition (HD) set-top box (STB) system-on-a-chip (SoC).
News categories: Broadcom, CES2025, Digital TV, ICs, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Semiconductor, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming

Syabas Announces Popbox for Big Screen Everything
Jan 5, 2010 – Syabas has announced Popbox, a small, $129 open platform set-top box that streams music, movies, photos, games, social media updates and more to today's HDTVs. Popbox supports just about every audio and video file type.
News categories: Syabas, Popbox, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Set Top Box, Smart Home, Streaming, USA

ArcSoft TotalMedia® Theatre 3 Platinum with SimHD™ Now Accelerated on NVIDIA ION-Based PCs
Jan 4, 2010 – ArcSoft has announced that its multimedia player application, TotalMedia Theatre 3 Platinum, together with its video up-scaling software, SimHD, are now optimized for NVIDIA® (Nasdaq:NVDA) CUDA™ acceleration on NVIDIA ION™-based PCs.
News categories: ArcSoft, NVIDIA, Blu-ray, CES2025, Media Player, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming

Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) Announces Key Milestones
Jan 4, 2010 – The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) has announced it has reached key milestones toward establishing the first open market for digital content distribution. In addition, DECE announced that 21 new companies have joined the group.
News categories: Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, Cable TV, Content Protection, Digital TV, DRM, IPTV, Media Player, Middleware, Mobile, Streaming

Quartics and DDD to Demonstrate 3D Experience on Electronics Devices at CES 2010
Dec 29, 2009 – Quartics and DDD Group (LSE: DDD) are collaborating to bring the most compelling and cost effective 3D technology yet to HD TVs and Netbooks by optimizing the Quartics' Qvu™ Video Processor with DDD's TriDef® 3D software technology.
News categories: Quartics, DDD Group, Blu-ray, CES2025, Digital TV, Media Player, Metaverse, Peripherals / Accessories, Semiconductor, Streaming