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BOCS to Demo Whole-Home Entertainment Device at CES.


BOCS BOCS - Berard Object and Class Specifier, an Object-oriented CASE tool from Berard Software Engineering.  MediaHub Poised to Change the Game for 2009 Consumer Electronics Industry

LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  -- BOCS Inc., a consumer electronics design and development company, will demonstrate its state-of-the-art BOCS MediaHub at the Consumer Electronics Show. The MediaHub is a next-generation entertainment-control set-top device that allows programs, movies, music and photos to be shared by all TVs in the home without adding a box at each TV.

"TiVo solved the problem of time, allowing consumers to watch recorded content whenever they want. The BOCS MediaHub solves the problem of location, delivering consumers the freedom to watch whatever they want, wherever they want to in the home, without having to buy additional equipment," said BOCS 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.  Todd Beetcher. "BOCS brings the value of the entire TV device 'stack' to every room in the house - even with the old analog TVs that will otherwise be going obsolete. The MediaHub is the consumer electronics industry's key to selling more HDTVs."

Currently, consumers are hesitant to purchase a second 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  for their bedroom since they have to buy another stack of devices to make it worthwhile. The BOCS MediaHub provides Big Box retailers a value proposition to help convince consumers to buy a second or third HDTV now that they can control all their entertainment from any room. For about the same cost as an extra 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. ) - and with no additional monthly fees - the MediaHub distributes these benefits across the whole-home experience.

Live BOCS demonstrations will take place at NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
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 Electronics' Booth #73339 at the Sands Convention Center at the 2009 International CES in Las Vegas from January 8-11, 2009.

NTT Electronics will provide the MPEG-2 video encoder chip for BOCS's next-generation HDTV device. "NTT Electronics earned a reputation for excellent encoder quality in the broadcast industry, where the highest standards of video quality exist," said Michael Thuresson, Product Planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
  • Market requirement
  • Product management
  • Product Manager
 Manager for Digital Video Business Group at NTT Electronics. "Our high-quality video encoder chip is an ideal solution for providing high quality HD video throughout the home, and we're excited to be a central part of the breakthrough BOCS Media Hub See digital media hub. ."

About NTT Electronics Corporation

NTT Electronics is an industry leader in video compression technology. Its broadcast codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV,  technology is active by an international relay of worldwide sports event, and is winning high praise in world markets. NTT Electronics' outstanding technologies make it possible to provide highest video quality from commercial equipment to consumer equipment. For more information about NTT Electronics, please visit http://www.nel-world.com/products/video.

About BOCS Inc.

Based in Boulder, Colo., BOCS Inc. is a consumer electronics design and development company founded by a team of serial entrepreneurs experienced in the consumer electronics, wireless networking, Internet appliance and storage industries. Representing a breakthrough in whole-home entertainment, BOCS manufactures and sells the BOCS Media Hub, an entertainment-control set-top Xtender that takes all digital sources -- TVs, DVRs (like TiVo), Apple TV, Netflix Movie Box, DVD players and jukeboxes, computers and other set-top-boxes -- and connects them to every room in the home, with no new wiring or subscriptions. For more information about BOCS, check out http://www.bocsco.com.
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