Verizon Home Media Server:
Sick of your set top box? Soon, Verizon’s FiOS users will be able to get their hands on a brand new Media Server, this will have the ability to stream HD TV to all compatible devices in your home.
Thanks to TechCrunch here are some further details into when and how this might work.
Verizon Home Media Server Promo Video:
Below you are able to watch the promotional video that comes with the new launch, and Director of Technology at Verizon, Tushar Saxena,explains a little more about how they wanted to upgrade the set-top box, and end up at some stage being able to deliver a box that is so small it will be easy to simply Velcro behind your TV.
Benefits include increased energy efficiency:
Currently the way streaming HDTV will work with new Verizon set-top boxes, is that your main TV is the grand daddy of the home, and to this will be attached your large media server with smaller satellite set-top boxes being needed for other non IP enabled TV devices in the home, with IP enabled devices such as Playstations, Xboxes, tablets, smartphones, and laptops connecting wirelessly over wi-fi to the main hub.
In time Verizon hopes to eliminate the need for any of these smaller set-top box satellites, as more and more TV devices connect to the internet wirelessly and are able to then receive a quality HD signal at data rates that will produce HD effectively.
3D HDTV to go same route:
Verizon are currently doing tests to stream 3D HDTV over Wi-Fi, and using the same technology, have managed to effectively transmit this at a rate of 40 Mbps through materials such as sheetrock and steel walls to distances up to 200m.
We have already talked about Apple TV v’s Google TV and with more news like this coming out it seems like 2012 will be the year of the Internet TV.
Are you looking forward to the reinvention of TV?
Anthony Munns