ACOGITO Announces ROAMING MACHINE(TM) That Can Roam Your Home TV Anywhere You Are.LAS VEGAS -- Acogito, a personal media entertainment carrier company, today announced the new product family, named ROAMING MACHINE(TM), with which consumers can roam their home TV anywhere they are. ROAMING MACHINE(TM) is a digital HD set-top box (STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box ), a digital video recorder See DVR. (DVR (1) (Digital Video Recorder) A device that records video onto a hard disk from one or more ceiling mounted video cameras. Part of a security system, the DVR typically supports 4, 8 or 16 separate camera channels. ), or even a digital TV (DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. ) with a built-in, place-shifting (MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4/H.264 encoding) capability. It utilizes the Company's patented Remote Control eXtensible Mark-up Language (RCXML) technology for a set of command protocols for remote viewing. ROAMING MACHINE(TM) is available in three different hardware platforms depending on the broadcasting reception methods such as ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. (8VSB/QAM)/NTSC (for US), DVB-S/DVB-T/PAL (for EU), and IP (for worldwide). With this ROAMING MACHINE(TM) installed at home, consumers can stream and watch their home TV or recorded programs via PC or mobile phones anywhere the broadband internet is available. The Company is also pleased to announce the world's first LCD HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates with a built-in, place-shifting capability, so called RoamingTV(TM). "Acogito aims to provide consumers a freedom to watch TV in a creative way," said Jason Chung, Ph.D., President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Acogito. "I am thrilled to announce this new product family of ROAMING MACHINE(TM) with a digital HD tuner, differentiating from other place-shifting devices in the market. I am sure that consumers would experience and enjoy the brisk & crystal-clear HD picture quality and mobile accessibility at the same time." ROAMING MACHINE(TM) is the result of digital convergence solution in home entertainment enabled by Acogito's technological leadership, achieving the lower cost and better performance. It would satisfy not only consumers' two major growing desires, HD viewing and mobile TV capability, but also the time-to-market demand as the upcoming analog switch-off schedule in US begins from February, 2009. Eventual beneficiaries for the ROAMING MACHINE(TM) product family will be consumers with HD enthusiasm and/or mobile preference, (i) who own a flat panel digital TV with a built-in analog tuner, (ii) who have an analog cable connection at home, (iii) who would like to enjoy the ever-increasing terrestrial HD broadcasting programs, and/or of course, (iv) who would like to watch their home TV anytime and anywhere they want. The Company will showcase its new digital ROAMING MACHINE(TM) product during NAB 2007 held in Las Vegas. The booth is located in C7843. About Acogito Acogito is a personal media entertainment carrier company headquartered in Korea that designs, manufactures, sells service-enabled, networked HD STB/PVR/TV products combined with place-shifting functions, and provides consumers with its related services. For more information, please visit www.acogito.com or contact Mr. Alex Ahn at info@acogito.com. |
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