There are vast amounts of personal digital content – photos, audio and increasingly video files – that exist in homes around the globe. Billions of these types of files are in stored computers, but rarely shared or seen due to the inconvenience of gathering people around a computer. However, several factors are converging to fundamentally change this paradigm. Increasingly, more and more consumers will find it just as easy to show digital photos to friends, play audio files and download television programming in their living room. Enabling this reality is Networked Digital Television (NDTV). Very simply, NDTV is a television able to accept digital broadcast formats, decode multiple audio and video file types, and connect to a personal computer or the Internet through a wireless or wired network connection.

The Converged Network At Home

NDTV takes advantage of the new converged network at home. Communications of all forms – data and video - are increasingly delivered over a single medium. Already it is possible to have your Internet connection, phone service and television programming delivered over the same line into your home. And simple, low cost wireless LANs extend this converged network virtually anywhere in the home without wires. So now much more than just a single computer can be connected to the Internet. Content from the Internet or from a PC can be easily moved throughout the home to one or more NDTVs. The ubiquity of a wireless LAN combined with the ability of these different file types – data, audio, voice, video and stills – to be sent over the same medium using Internet Protocol (IP) communications is realizing new ways of entertainment at home. For example, Dad might be viewing a television program downloaded over the Internet in the family room, while his son listens to music from a playlist on the PC in his room. At the same time, Mom can be arranging a new digital photo album in her bedroom.

Other items covered in this white paper include:

• Trends Driving Development of the Networked Digital Television Market
  • Personal Content Growing Around the World
  • Video File Sharing
  • Changing Regulations Speed Digital TV
• A Growth Market
• Challenges Facing Those Developing NDTV Solutions
• A Powerful Solution For NDTV Product Developers – DeCypher DHM8100 From Micronas
  • All-in-One Codec Solution
  • Powerful Architecture For Today And Tomorrow’s DRM Solutions
• Choosing the Right Partner
• Summary

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