Integrative Home Media – Humanizing PC and TV relationship

The process of convergence of consumer electronics and computer industry puts the need for standard usage experience on ultimate demand. Current situation with sporadic variations from vendor to vendor slows down the adoption of new technology.

Unified 10 foot UI experience as well as unified remote control layout experience will facilitate wide consumer audience for avalanche adoption of devices like media extenders. This unification is also especially important due to new emerging technology of HDMI-CEC interaction of consumer electronic devices.

Integrative Home Media approach is based on many years of usage of various media extenders from the very first audio only devices based on now dead Home-RF wireless standard and pre-UPnP boxes thru mainstream D-Link DSM 320 to contemporary Syabas OEM based extenders.

Both IT- professional analysis and whole family emotional response are counted.

For test implementation satellite STB with open source firmware was selected.