LiquidHD Looks to Connect Home Media Devices
Posted on: Friday, 9 January 2009, 06:50 CST
On Thursday, Silicon Image Inc. announced that they have developed new technology that will allow people to control and play their digital media on any screen in their home.Silicon Image is sure to see tough competition in the near future as many other major companies are attempting to develop their own ways to network devices in the home.
The company is not new at developing ground-breaking technologies. They are known for pioneering the HDMI interface which has been adopted as the digital data transmission standard.
The new technology, called LiquidHD, is being unveiled at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
According to Silicon Image, LiquidHD has the ability to connect a home’s televisions, DVD and Blu-ray players, gaming systems, DVRs and computers on one network .
Someone could begin watching a movie in their living room, pause the film, and then resume watching it in their bedroom by using a single remote.
"This is presaging a whole new generation of smarter consumer devices that are aware of each other and able to share content across a very cheap commodity network," said Silicon Image Chief Executive Steve Tirado.
The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, expects LiquidHD to hit the market in 2010, and added that Fox Studios has already endorsed the technology’s security design.
They have already begun to provide chips for next generation TV manufacturers, and software for DVR and Blu-ray player makers, so that consumers can quickly add store-bought devices to their home network.
Silicon Image is also creating an external chip that will make LiquidHD compatible with TVs currently on the market.
The company is forming a group of experts to create a world-wide LiquidHD standard, similar to the way the company developed HDMI into a standard now used by over 800 companies.
Silicon Image hopes to license the technology to competitors the same way they licensed HDMI.
According to Tirado, the company is confident that they will soon implement technology to include mobile devices on home networks with LiquidHD.
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Source: redOrbit staff
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