NEOTION unveils the T.NERGY flyweight set-top, a Micro MPEG-4 IP box"¦ but with all-in-one Maxi features

IP Box MPEG-4 + Home Network + Conditional Access & DRM + Digital Video Recorder & Time-Shifting + Optional Networked TV tuner!

NEOTION – a French Fabless high-tech company that provides ultra secured MPEG-4 chipsets in the Digital TV space – today presents the T.NERGY: the smallest MPEG-4 set-top ever made.

Powered by the fully in-house designed NP5+ NEOTION processor, the T.NERGY aims at pushing further the current boundaries with regards to the growing enthusiasm around both IPTV boxes and PC/TV path & Media Centers ones. It shall enable to commute any television sets with triple play TV lined up by Telcos, but also more globally, to the emergence on Connected TV with the Web 2.0 social networks and the VOD.

First NEOTION product to run on LINUX, the T.NERGY is a genuine IP box that measures less than 4 inches (7 by 9 cm), and weights only 82 grams. However, the T.NERGY doesn’t neglect any of the essential features that are required by TV Operators and Telcos, being notably the compliance with state of the art IPTV & Home network protocols and Standards, the embedded secured silicon based CAS & DRM, the SIMcard reader, and the SD-CARD HC reader together with a totally silent DVR and time-shifting mode (no hard-disk noise, unlike most HDD based PVRs).

In order to contribute to environmental related concerns, the T.NERGY is actually not only ultra small to ease transportation, but also ultra low power. Beyond the vertical operators’ Markets for which it was originally conceptualized, the T.NERGY shall also be capable of being offered straight to consumers when bundled with the Neotion Player – a Media Center type application that turns your Home PC and your Internet connection into a whole TV & DVD server, both multiroom and highly performing – capable of transcoding on the fly any video, photo or music sources using today’s popular codecs – while making them accessible at your fingertip’s via your living-room TV remote control.

Even better, the T.NERGY shall fairly soon be complemented with a totally disruptive accessory option: a DVB Tuner built into an Ethernet plug using a totally new NEOTION chipset. In other words, it shall then be possible to enable remote access, for any T.NERGY one has connected in his Home Network, to a DTT or satellite reception resource located somewhere in one single place in that Home! The Multiroom shall then become a mainstream reality even more important that alongside the analogue switch off that is mandated by 2012 latest in Europe, people shall massively be seeking to connect all of their TV sets to some sort of Digital TV signals.

The T.NERGY is by nature the very first « Flyweight » IP Box”¦., but stepping away from usual high cost, high power consumption and cluttering constraints, it shall indubitably be boxing in the “Heavyweight” decoder category. A story to keep on tracking on the Commercial ring.