Seagate has upgraded its popular FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player to include streaming. Owners of FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player with membership on Netflix can now download/stream content straight from Netflix, to a connected television. The upgrade is available as free firmware download to existing FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player owners from Seagate.com.
Liberty Global (LGI) has promised to deliver the Home Gateway the European market has been waiting for. The company announced that they are partnering with some of the world’s biggest names in consumer electronics development and supplies, to build the best home gateway yet. The new home gateway promises to revolutionise how the connected home access, consume and share digital content.
Carlo Gavazzi has announced a new range of home automation products for next month’s CEDIA Home Technology Event at Excel London. The Aurora range as it is called comprise of Light Switchs, Temperature controllers, Passive infra-red detectors and smart-house systems were designed by Milan-based Bonorandi.
Last month companiesandmarkets.com released a report about the key trends and drivers shaping devices, content and services in the growing digital home market. According to the report “despite the economic slowdown of recent years, digital home entertainment looks set to evolve and grow significantly over the next five years”. Here are connectedhomeworld.com we have seen this trend and think that what we are seeing is just the taste of what is to come.
AVG, the technology security solution provider announced that they are partnering with Affinegy to offer AVG Internet Security 9.0 on the DigiDo digital lifestyle platform. The partnership is to allow service providers to offer small businesses and home users a comprehensive and easy to use internet security solution.
Zoran has selected Sonic Solution RoxioNow entertainment for it new advanced SupraHD TV processor reference design. The integration of RoxioNow on the SupraHD TV chip is to allow TV manufacturers to make televisions that will integrate into today’s connected homes. When connected to other devices, televisions using the SupraHD TV processor will be able to stream different digital content to and from their TVs.
Last week in Seoul Korea Samsung launched the world’s first 3D home theatre system (HT-C6930W) offering the best in 3D sound and 3D stereoscopic images. With the introduction of the new HT-C6930W Samsung now offers the complete 3D home entertainment solution (3D glasses, 3D TVs, 3D content and 3D Blu-ray players).
BT (British Telecom) is the UKs largest telecom provider and it is one of those companies that you would love to hate but you can’t, because from time to time they do or say something that causes you to love or hate them all over again. This week BT pledged to spend an extra £1bn pounds to bring super-fast broadband to UK homes; this is one of those occasions.
Zoran announced that television developed with their SupraHD 675 HDTV processor have start shipping to European and Australian markets, with other countries due next quarter. The SupraHD 675 processor supports the latest internet connected television for the European and worldwide connected home market, with support for DVB-T, ISDB-T and DMB-T.
At this year’s NCTA Cable Show in Los Angeles, uControl announced that they have collaborated with Ember, a developer of wireless mesh networking technology, to create a new line of wireless ZigBee security sensors. The new systems enable Broadband Service Providers to deliver the next generation of services for the Connected Home.