RVU Alliance: Turining Your DirecTV Box into a Home Server
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On Monday, Broadcom, Cisco, DirecTV and Samsung announced the “RVU Alliance,” a consortium designed to provide “pixel-perfect” graphics to a number of devices around the home.
Bored yet? I can see why. But underneath the rather blasé surface of the press release is an interesting direction for your home media network, especially if you subscribe to DirecTV.
Here’s the key point, according to the Alliance: “[The] RVU Alliance’s pixel accurate RUI technology will provide an identical user experience on all RVU-based thin client CE devices throughout the connected home, including digital TVs (DTVs), digital media adapters (DMAs) and set-top boxes (STBs).”
“Thin client” appears to be the operative word here. Virtually all cable and satellite systems require roughly identical set-top boxes to be placed around the home, in every room that contains a TV — if you want the full-featured functionality of a DVR or other device, I mean.
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