Metro Link Demonstrates Industry's Most Complete Digital Set Top Box & DTV Solution for Home Entertainment at Mediacast 2003
London, 19 May 2003
Metro Link Inc. is demonstrating Metro MediaWorks, an integrated solution using applications developed in-house combined with software components from several partners. Metro MediaWorks provides consumer electronics manufacturers with a comprehensive suite of applications for digital set-top boxes and Home Media Centers. Metro MediaWorks supporting Streaming Video, High Definition PVR, Multi-TV PVR, MP3, EPG, DVB-T, TV Centric browsers, Macromedia Flash, Virtual Machines for Java, Telephony and embedded UPnP will be demonstrated at the ATI Technologies Inc. booth (#E8) at Mediacast, May 20-22nd.
With Metro Link's Metro MediaWorks DTV solution (DVB-T and ATSC), customers can develop Digital Set-Top-Boxes, Digital TVs, and Home Media Centers based on ATI's XILLEON™ chip.
"ATI's highly integrated XILLEON chip is the ideal starting point for consumer electronics manufacturers building a variety of products, including those developing PVRs (Personal Video Recorders)," said Daniel Eiref, Director of DTV Marketing and Business Development, ATI Technologies Inc. "XILLEON is a worthy complement to Metro Link's integrated, robust media engine and Metro Link also provides custom hardware and software support for ATI's SET-TOP WONDER™ reference design.
"Metro Link will be receiving live DVB-T programs on the XILLEON™ based HT-5060 digital set top box, from Proton Communications of Taiwan, simultaneously writing to disk for PVR, streaming to another Proton HT-5060 to demonstrate Multi-TV PVR over IP, while displaying stored videos and live broadcasts.
Metro Link will be demonstrating integrated software technology from several partners including a Macromedia Flash GUI layered on ANT Limited’s Fresco® browser. "ANT is delighted that Metro Link has harnessed ANT Fresco's integration of Flash Player 5 to create and view user interfaces that enhance its PVR and EPG product offerings," said Rhys Grossman, Senior VP, Business Development. "With increasing demand from service operators for Flash 5 capabilities, ANT and Metro Link can now provide them with the ability to deliver enriched revenue-generating content to their subscribers."
Other partners in the ATI booth include Skelmir & Oregan Networks. Skelmir will be demonstrating the CEE-J Virtual Machine for hosting Java, MHP, OCAP and OSGi applications available for release in 3rd qtr 2003 as an integrated component of Metro MediaWorks. Shari Agatstein, CEO of Skelmir, ”The Metro MediaWorks PVR functionality combined with the CEE-J VM on the Xilleon Set Top Box gives customers a proven, market-ready platform on which to deploy advanced and scalable video products.” Upon release of the integrated solution, a variety of Java applications will become available including Java PVR, Java browser, gaming, chat and email.
About ANT Software Limited
ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.
ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.
ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).
About Metro Link
Metro Link is "Making Convergence Work". From the silicon level to the user interface, Metro Link's comprehensive solutions bring the seamless integration of entertainment, rich digital media, telephony, and home networking, to consumer electronics manufacturers and network operators. http://www.metrolink.com
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