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Motorola Announces Home Media Architecture,
Extending Digital Video Recording Capabilities Throughout the
Home
Motorola’s solution
provides a cost-effective way to share digital entertainment programming across
“connected home” devices.
NEW
ORLEANS. – 3 May 2004 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced
that it has extended the functionality of its industry-leading digital set-top
platform with the introduction of the Motorola Home Media Architecture
(HMA). Providing cost-effective hardware and software solutions, Motorola
HMA enables operators to bring the experience of multi-room digital video
recording (DVR) and media distribution functionality to their
subscribers.
As part of Motorola’s
“connected home” strategy, Motorola HMA allows consumers to enjoy
access to stored media on connected devices throughout the home.
Motorola’s highly scaleable and extensible architecture enables operators
to deploy a basic multi-room DVR solution by leveraging legacy digital set-tops
and currently deployed interactive program guide (IPG) or video on demand (VOD)
applications. The architecture also provides a growth path to enable advanced
services and capabilities utilizing technology from Ucentric Systems, a provider
of home media networking software.
These
advanced capabilities of HMA, enabled by Ucentric Systems Multi-TV DVR
technology, add a new level of in-home media networking. In addition to
enhanced multi-room DVR functionality such as management of recording and
viewing resources across the entire home network, advanced HMA leverages
standards based IP technology to enable subscribers to connect a range of
compatible devices through their in-home network. Consumers will be able to
configure set-tops, digital cameras, camcorders, mp3 players, laptops, PCs and
mobile phones through a simple user interface.
With a Java-based open architecture for
applications, the advanced capabilities of Motorola’s HMA solution offers
service providers the ability to introduce new IP-based services in areas such
as home security, home monitoring, smart home management, remote education and
remote health management.
Motorola’s
basic multi-room architecture provides an easily-deployed solution for the
access of DVR content throughout the home. Specifically, the solution enables
content recorded on a DCT6208 or DCT6412 digital video recorder set-top to be
accessed from any HMA-enabled DCT digital set-top. Further, the solution allows
for the continued use of current program guides and application
suites.
Using IP-over-coaxial technology
developed by Entropic for the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA), the HMA
enables “whole-home” networking for core and advanced digital
set-tops already in the home. The Entropic technology enables multiple standard
and high-definition video and data services to be simultaneously distributed
throughout the home, over existing unmodified coaxial cable, without the need
for a service call by a technician.
“With Home Media Architecture, Motorola is enabling operators to increase
the penetration of digital services in the home and extend their investment in a
digital set-top platform,” said Carl
McGrath, Motorola corporate vice-president and general
manager, digital core gateways. “By working with existing application
providers as well as integrating technology from companies like Ucentric,
Motorola has provided operators a flexible architecture for offering subscribers
access to entertainment and information throughout their homes, and a simple
software upgrade path to advanced
features”
"Ucentric is proud to work with
Motorola to provide cable operators with a solution that extends the DVR
functionality to anywhere in their home, in a way that is easy to manage and
install. " said Michael Collette, chief executive officer,
Ucentric Systems. " Motorola’s leading digital set-top platforms combined
with Ucentric technology delivers multi-screen DVR capabilities that not only
provide customers with the ability to control recording throughout the home, but
to actually leverage the capabilities of the all set-top resources in a simple
and intuitive manner.”
Motorola is
demonstrating the Home Media Architecture to attendees of the NCTA 2004 trade
show (May 2-5, New Orleans, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center) at the
company’s booth #3323.
As the world
leader in digital cable technology, Motorola has shipped more than 30 million
digital set-tops and over 2,060 digital headends serving more than 75 million
homes. Motorola’s diverse digital set-top portfolio has enabled broadband
operators worldwide to deliver a range of interactive information and
entertainment services to customers’ homes in over 1,000 cable systems.
These services include video-on-demand, interactive television, and
HDTV.
About Entropic
Communications
Entropic Communications is a
privately held fabless semiconductor company based in San Diego, Calif.
Entropic's products hold the promise to fundamentally change the way video and
other broadband multimedia are used in homes. Since its founding in 2001,
Entropic has raised $46 million from leading venture and strategic investors,
including CMEA, Mission Ventures, Redpoint, Cisco, Comcast, Intel, Motorola,
Panasonic, and Time Warner. For more information: www.entropic.com.
About
Ucentric Systems, LLC.
Ucentric is a leading
provider of home media networking software for the new digital home. Patented
technology enables the secure, high quality digital distribution of HD and SD
video signals from broadcast, satellite or cable sources to all connected rooms
in the home, over low-cost, in-home wired or wireless networks. Ucentric's
modular Digital Home Software Suite includes media centers/gateways, multi-TV
DVR and whole home music software solutions.
Ucentric works with CE manufacturers and
service providers to create market-leading products. Based in Maynard,
Massachusetts, Ucentric is backed by Polaris Venture Partners. For more
information about Ucentric, please visit www.ucentric.com
About
Motorola Broadband Communications Sector
The
Motorola Broadband Communications Sector provides a scalable, integrated
end-to-end system for the delivery of broadband services that keeps consumers
informed, entertained and connected. Its technology enables network operators
and retailers to create and execute on new business opportunities by providing
innovative products and services to the home. Customer-responsive design and
manufacturing expertise further contribute to the company’s position as
the world's leading supplier of digital cable set-tops and cable modems. For
more information about the Motorola Broadband Communications Sector, visit
www.motorola.com/broadband.
About
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) is a global
leader in wireless, broadband and automotive communications technologies that
help make life smarter, safer, simpler, synchronized and fun. Sales in 2003 were
$27.1 billion. Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit
people at home, at work and on the move. The company also is a progressive
corporate citizen dedicated to operating ethically, protecting the environment
and supporting the communities in which it does business. For more information,
please visit www.motorola.com.
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Media Contacts:
Motorola
Angela
Branham-Britt
+1-215-323-1885
angie.britt@motorola.com
Ucentric
Helen
Chung
+1-206-755-0877
helen@jlmpartners.com
MOTOROLA
and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office. All other product or service names are the property of their respective
owners. © Motorola, Inc. 2004
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