Las Vegas, NV; NAB 2002 — (press release excerpt) — Mediabolic, Inc. and IBM today unveiled the Mediabolic One entertainment platform operating on IBM's PowerPC-based STB Integrated Controller at NAB 2002. The combination represents a powerful and cost effective option for manufacturers to bring next generation features to consumer electronics devices targeted at home entertainment.

The Mediabolic ONE platform for IBM's chips runs on top of the Linux operating system. It enables the creation of digital entertainment devices for the home. Examples of these devices include set-top boxes, audio-video servers, DVD players, and CD players. Applications for video, audio, digital photos, and streaming or cached Internet content are also available. The Mediabolic ONE platform includes networked device discovery and control features that allow multiple devices to share content. Pioneer Electronics and Compaq showcased products powered by the Mediabolic ONE platform at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show.

New types of consumer electronics devices are evolving to adopt and leverage digital STB technology that is deployed en masse today; IBM's STB chips provide the performance required to build new consumer products. IBM Microelectronics offers PowerPC-based STB chips and the associated reference platforms to provide OEMs with ideal prototype platforms to develop high performance, inexpensive solutions for the consumer electronics marketplace.

Eric Tsou Ph. D., director of IBM's Digital Video Products Group, said ” . . . this emerging entertainment product category that has real potential to become the next explosive business opportunity.”

 
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