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Ucentric Joins Digital Home Working Group

Posted on: Thursday, 11 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

MAYNARD, Mass., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ucentric Systems, a leading provider of home media networking software and applications, today announced its membership in the Digital Home Working Group (DHWG). The DHWG is a non-profit organization dedicated to simplifying the sharing of digital content among networked consumer electronics, mobile devices and PCs. The group consists of computer, consumer electronics and mobile industry leaders such as: Fujitsu, Gateway, HP, Intel, IBM, Kenwood, Lenovo, Microsoft, NEC, Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, STMicroelectronics and Thomson.

The group was formed to ease the complexity of home networks for consumers and speed to market new products for vendors and providers by establishing an interoperability platform based on open standards. The organization will develop technical design specifications and guidelines that will be used developing products such as computers, televisions, stereos, cellular telephones and other devices that share content on wireless and wired home networks. The DHWG expects the first wave of products with these implementations to be available by June 2004.

"We support DHWG's vision of creating a unified platform that will create a simplified result for consumers and speed the rate of innovation for the entire home networking industry," said Michael Collette, CEO of Ucentric. "Ucentric is committed to providing consumers with a new digital home experience with state of the art video and audio applications that work seamlessly on a highly flexible and interoperable array of devices."

About Ucentric Systems

Ucentric Systems is the leading provider of home media networking software and applications for media centers, media gateways, personal video recorders and multi-TV DVR devices. Patented software technology from Ucentric enables the fully digital distribution of broadcast-quality video over low-cost, in-home networks. Ucentric-powered media centers become media gateways when combined with WAN connectivity and the associated residential gateway services enabled by Ucentric gateway software. With a link to broadband Internet, Ucentric-powered media gateways are capable of supporting both the distribution of all formats of broadcast-quality digital video and all services associated with broadband wireless networking on the same in-home network.

The company works with cable and satellite network operators as well as manufacturers of consumer electronics and set-tops to create market-leading, media-rich products. Based in Maynard, Massachusetts, Ucentric is backed by Polaris Venture Partners. For more information about Ucentric, please visit http://www.ucentric.com/.

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