CES: חברת Popcorn Hour מכריזה על מזרימדיה חדש - PopBox

[ziv_r]

חברת Popcorn Hour מציגה את ה PopBox. זהו מזרימדיה אשר נועד לשוק US ומטרתו להיות מזרימדיה שעיקרו הוא עבור Streaming של תכנים מקוונים.

מכיוון שהמוצר מיועד עבור שוק ה US, הוסרו ממנו כל היכולות ה"אפורות" כמו קליינט USENET וטורנט. ה PopBox יתחרה במוצרים כמו Roku ויהיה בעל יכולות סטרימינג מקומיות מנוונות, הוא יוכל לנגן קבצי mkv, אך כנראה שלא m2ts.

המוצר בעל ממשק משתמש חדש ומאוד ידידותי ויתומחר בסביבות $130.

אני יודע שחלק ממכם מתאכזבים ממה שחשפה Popcorn Hour, אך אני יכול להגיד לכם שאם תחכו רק עוד כמה ימים בודדים...

[Itay_Pollak]

עוד מתחרה לבוקסיבוקס?

באחד האתרים כתוב שהוא תומך בכל מה שהPOPCORN הרגיל תומך (לא יודע מה ההגדרה "הרגיל").
המחיר בהחלט מעניין. גם אם לא נוכל להפעיל STREAMING

[Pavelz]

וואו, הם שכרו מעצב הפעם! נראה ממש יפה, הן מבחינת חומרה והן מבחינת תוכנה
נראה מאוד מעניין

[ziv_r]

אגב, המעבד הינו בדיוק אותו אחד שקיים ב C-200, כלומר ה SMP8643 מבית Sigma Designs.

[HazooM]

למה הם לא יכלו לעשות ל A-110 שלט כזה

[olorin]

נחמד אבל - אני אחכה רק כמה ימים בודדים.

[Gili_Regev]

טוב,
אין שלטים כאלה..

[sam22]

השלט יפה
יש לי השגה לגבי פיזור הכפתורים
למשל הריחוק בין ה PLAY לכפתורי ההרצה תמוה משהו

[Gili_Regev]

השלט יפה
יש לי השגה לגבי פיזור הכפתורים
למשל הריחוק בין ה PLAY לכפתורי ההרצה תמוה משהו

...

צודק.
היו צריכים למקם את ה- FF וה- REW מתחת ל- Play וה- pause

[oferlaor]

שלט מזעזע, ממשק ומכשיר מדהימים!

[big27]

ziv ,

אם אתה אומר לחכות עוד כמה ימים ,

זה ממש לא נשמע טוב ,משמע ייצא סטרימר חדש ..!!!!!!!!!???!!??

[ziv_r]

אני מתקן את עצמי לגבי מפרט המכשיר, הוא ידע לנגן כל קובץ שיודכ לנגן ה C200, כולל m2ts ופורמטי האודיו המתקדמים - רק לא כותרי בלו-ריי מלאים או BD Lite.
ההכרזה המלאה לעיתונות.
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Syabas Announces Popbox for Big Screen Everything

New, affordable over-the-top settop box features an open app platform to bridge the gap between an HDTV, a home network and the Internet


Las Vegas (CES Unveiled Table 9), January 5, 2009 – Syabas, a global provider of over-the-top settop software and hardware and makers of the award-winning Popcorn Hour C-200, today announced Popbox, a small, $129 open platform settop box that streams music, movies, photos, games, social media updat-es and more to today’s HDTVs. Popbox supports just about every audio and video file type and recognizes content from the Internet, a personal computer and a USB-attached storage device such as a Flip Video™ HD camcorder or an external hard drive.

What separates Popbox from its competitors is its ability to handle virtually any file and content type, its ease-of-use and open development platform, which allows media companies to rapidly develop, deploy and monetize a wide range of interactive high definition applications and content. Those applications and content may then be given away or sold on the Popapps Portal. Developers can sign up for the program at www.popbox.com.

In a separate release, also issued today, Syabas announced that it has added a number of new content and application partners including:
• Netflix (feature-length movies and television shows)
• Twitter (social networking and micro blogging service)
• FunSpot (interactive videogames)
• Crunchyroll (Japanese anime and Asian entertainment site)
• SHOUTcast (32,000 professional and community programmed radio stations)

Popbox also features a new, easy-to-navigate user interface (UI) that was designed by Dewey Reid, who won an Emmy award in 2004 for the UI he creat-ed for the Moxi Media Center. The UI enables users to browse content from a wide variety of Internet-based content channels, as well as a home networked media library with full metadata-based navigation. Metadata partners include Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for movies.

“I strongly believe that this year over-the-top settop boxes will go from the niche enthusiast to the mainstream consumer,” said Alex Limberis, chief operating officer of Syabas. “Popbox is perfectly positioned to deliver everything from movies to photos, to music to games to Tweets in an inexpensive, easy-to-use platform that will drive this market forward in 2010.”

Syabas has been developing software for connected entertainment devices for companies including HP, Netgear, I-O DATA, Pinnacle Systems and Viewsonic since 2001. In 2007, the company began shipping Popcorn Hour, its first over-the-top (OTT) settop box that has over the last two years earned a number of industry Editor’s Choice awards. Popbox is expected to be available in the United States in March and will be the company’s first product available through the retail channel.

Availability
Popbox is expected to be available in March for $129. For more information on the Popbox, please visit www.popbox.com.

Specifications
PopBox v1.0 Features:
Video Outputs
• HDMI (1080p/720p/480p)
• Component Video (Y/Pb/Pr)

Audio Outputs
• Stereo Analog Audio
• S/PDIF Optical

Content Services such as
• Netflix 2.0
• Photobucket
• Shoutcast
• Revision3

Developer Services
• Flash Lite 3.1 support
• PopBox SDK
• Application Store (Popapp Center)

Video File Containers
MPEG1/2/4 Elementary (M1V, M2V, M4V)
MPEG1/2 PS (M2P, MPG, DAT, VOB)
MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS)
AVI, ASF, WMV
Matroska (MKV)
MOV (H.264), MP4, RMP4

Video Codecs
XVID SD/HD
MPEG-1
MPEG-2 MP@HL
MPEG-4.2 ASP@L5, 720p, 1-point GMC
MPEG-4.10 (H.264)
BP@L3
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WMV9
MP@HL
SMPTE 421M (VC-1)
MP@HL
AP@L3

Audio File Containers
AAC, M4A, MPEG audio (MP1, MP2, MP3, MPA)
WAV, WMA, FLAC, OGG

Audio Codecs
Dolby Digital
DTS
WMA, WMA Pro
MPEG-1 Layer 1, 2, 3
MPEG-4 AAC-LC
MPEG-4 HE-AAC
MPEG-4 BSAC
LPCM
FLAC
OGG Vorbis

Photo formats
JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF

DRM
Cardea DRM (WMDRM-ND)
Janus DRM (WMDRM-PD)

Content Security
• HDCP 1.2
• CGMS-A

Remote Control
• IR Remote Control

Weight/Size/Power
• 15.9Oz [450g]
• 8.0” [203mm] X 6.0” [154mm] X 1.25” [ 32mm]
• AC-DC adaptor
o Input 100~240V AC, 50~60Hz
o Output 5V DC, 3A max

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[ziv_r]

ההכרזה לגבי שותפי התוכן.
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Popbox Launches with 20 New Content and Application Partners

Variety of content and applications brings depth and breadth to next-generation over-the-top settop box


Las Vegas (CES Unveiled Table 9), January 5, 2009 – Syabas, a global provider of over-the-top settop software and hardware and makers of the award winning Popcorn Hour C-200 and just unveiled Popbox, today announced 20 new content and application partners have joined the Popbox platform.

The new partners include:
• BlipTV: Distributes 48,000 independently-produced Web shows
• Clicker: An Internet TV guide that catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, making it easy to discover what's available to watch (and what isn't) online, where to watch it and what's worth watching
• Crunchyroll: An online video service and community that offers full-length episodes and movies of the very best in Japanese anime and Asian entertainment
• Eyecon: Enables consumers to connect to their content and seamlessly route it to any compatible playback device in the home
• FunSpot: A casual gaming service that offers everything from multiplayer board, arcade and card games to puzzles, strategy and quizzes
• Internet Movie Database: (IMDB) A video search engine that supplies the metadata that integrates a consumer’s video collection with the corresponding movie’s artwork.
• Internet Video Archive: The entertainment industry's leading aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews and music videos. The channel features 500,000 unique video assets from over 1,200 content providers
• Livestation: Live video streams of international news channels to give you more choice and perspective wherever you are.
• MalaysiaKini: An independent media organization that streams Malaysian video news and views
• Mediafly: An Internet service for managing digital media shows such as video and podcasts and downloading them to many types of devices
• MetaChannels from Channels.com: A video aggregation and distribution service that enables device manufacturers and application developers to integrate the best shows on the Web into their product offerings
• Netflix: The world's largest online movie rental service, with more than 11 million subscribers
• NextNewNetworks: Producer of online television networks that creat-es, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web's most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming
• Photobucket: The premiere site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics
• PicoChannel: A service that makes it easy for people to share their personal photos and videos with friends and family on connected TVs and picture frames
• Swarmcast: Transforms the Internet into a reliable medium for distributing high-quality video enables content providers to engage global audiences through high-quality viewing experiences
• Twitter: A free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables consumers to send and read messages up to 140 characters in length
• Twonky: Streams music, photos and videos to compatible devices in the home
• Waterfront Entertainment: Develops casual games for interactive TV, Web, mobile and emerging platforms
• WeatherBug: The leading provider of weather information services that manages and operates a proprietary network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations

Additional partners already announced include:
• CCTV: The largest media content and television programming producer in China
• FrameChannel: Offers over 1000 RSS-based content widgets in 12 different languages including everything from sports scores, to stock quotes, weather and news, photos, status up-dates from your favorite social networks and more
• Revision3: Creat-es and produces original programming for passionate, committed fans who want to watch shows about technology, movies, video games and music that entertain, educate and help to expand their life experiences
• SHOUTcast: A radio directory that allows Popcorn Hour owners to access more than 32,000 professional and community programmed radio stations that span more than 30 genres of music, news, talk, public, community and world programming

“It’s great to finally see an over-the-top settop box that’s able to do more than just play photos, video and music to their television sets,” said Michael Lantz, CEO of Accedo Broadband, the company behind the FunSpot brand. “Thanks to the open nature of the Popbox platform, it is easy and straightforward for companies like Accedo to creat-e engaging and attractive new ways for people to interact with others through their television sets.”

Popbox enables consumers to enjoy a wide assortment of content including blockbuster movies, Internet radio, home videos, photos, music, games and Tweets from their PC, the Internet or an attached USB storage device on their HDTVs. The user interface, designed by Emmy Award-winning designer Dewey Reid, allows users to easily navigate a wide variety of content channels, browse and playback multimedia content from their computer and interact with others through social networking sites and interactive multiplayer games.

“The openness of the Popbox platform is now enabling content providers and application developers to move beyond simple audio, video and photo playback and into more interactive realms such as multiplayer gaming and social networking,” said Alex Limberis, chief operating officer of Syabas. “From companies making applications that allow users to access media from any home PC to developers making channels that enable consumers to enjoy content from a multitude of sources, it’s amazing to see the sheer number and variety of developers understanding the value that the Popbox platform can bring to their brands.”

Announced in May of this year under the DAVID platform name, the Popbox developer’s kit consists of a software development kit (SDK) and an over-the-top settop device SDK that incorporates the ability to develop and deploy applications to the company’s app store portal. Developers can sign up for the program at www.popbox.com.

Availability
Popbox is expected to be available in March for $129. For more information on the Popbox, please visit www.popbox.com.
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[ziv_r]

עבור פיתוח ה PopBox גוייסו חבורה של אנשים מקצוענים ועל גבי הפלטפורמה של NetworkMediaTank, פותח המוצר החדש.
אחד הנקודות המעניינות של ה Popbox הינו שהוא ידע לגשת לתכנים ברשת המקומית ולהציג מידע אינפורמטיבי על כל קובץ בעזרת שיתוף פעולה מול IMDB. כלומר חסל סדר התקנת תוכנות צד שלישי עבור MovieJukeBox, מעכשיו המזרימדיה ידע לעשות זאת!

[ziv_r]

עוד קצת תמונות.

[rbroudo]

המכשיר נראה מרשים והממשק מרשים עוד יותר.
אכן מתחרה לבוקסיבוקס...רק חבל שכל עולם התוכן המוזרם לא ממש רלוונטי במקומותינו

[Adix]

נראה שמי שלא צריך כונן BDR מקבל במחיר מצחיק פלטפורמה מבוססת רכיב חזק ומיצרן מוביל ובעל מוניטין בשוק, כל זה במחיר אטרקטיבי ביותר.
המכשיר לא תומך ברשת GigE וחבל, אך מצד שני כולל אופציה לאלחוט.

זיו, אולי תגלה לנו האם המכשיר זכה להיות אורח כבוד אצלך בסלון?

[Irus]

נראה מרשים

במיוחד אם "עוד כמה ימים" נזכה לראות גרסה שמותאמת לשוק העולמי ותוכל ליצור שילוב בין ה-C200 בסלון למכשיר קומפקטי נוסף לחדרים אחרים...

[sky1sky10]

אני יודע שחלק ממכם מתאכזבים ממה שחשפה Popcorn Hour, אך אני יכול להגיד לכם שאם תחכו רק עוד כמה ימים בודדים...

...

והנה עבר לו יום בודד...

[ziv_r]

אמרתי "כמה ימים בודדים"