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HDTV is the most exciting development since colour TV was invented. The picture is clear, razor-sharp and every detail is visible. The colours are rich, fluid and true-to-life, and three-dimensional surround sound completes the ultimate TV experience.
Vidanti is playing its part in this revolution with Full HD Video solutions - that means being able to decode at a very high bit rate and display more than two million pixels on a TV. We believe it is the only solution relevant to the future of television.
There is one major problem. Due to divergence between the falling costs of flat-screen digital TVs versus the costs of providing HD content, more TV households now own a HD-Ready TV than are receiving high-definition programming. We call this the "content gap" and we've made it our mission to close it. We do this by making it possible to receive HD content over a Broadband internet connection, as well as over Broadcast connections such as Free-to-air Satellite.
Receiving TV over the internet to watch on a HDTV appeals to consumers because it gives control over TV schedule and content - instead of being forced to watch whatever is on. Once the viewer gets used to being in active control, it promises to change the way we look at TV.
Our motto in all this is "Play - Connect - Share". It means you can play HD content when you want. You can connect to the outside world using your TV as a window, in the same way you use a computer monitor. It means you can access your media files, songs, videos, photos and share them, using wired or wireless as you prefer.
We believe that your devices should be working for you, not against you.
Vidanti develops and delivers flexible, scalable and efficient HDTV solutions that enable service operators to side-step a bewildering array of network deployment choices. For example, we offer solutions that combine receiving TV over the Internet (IPTV) with receiving digital broadcast TV using cable, satellite or terrestrial tuners.
For receiving TV over the Internet we can offer "two box" solutions (a separate broadband router and set-top box receiver) or "one box" solutions - an integrated Broadband media gateway. We can do this for different types of broadband such as ADSL2+, VDSL or Fiber to the Home. We are building on our experience in the DSL market - at the last count over 30 million consumer broadband devices around the world are deployed with our technology inside
When it comes to distributing video around the home, we offer simple and effective Home Network solutions using the latest developments in broadband-over-powerline.
It's not difficult to provide "triple-play/quad-play" bundles of voice, data and video as discrete services. However, service providers need to offer converged services before they can expect to profit in the increasingly competitive consumer market.
When we say that Vidanti supports "true triple play" we don't mean that a separate device supporting Voice over IP can interface to one of our devices. We mean that critical components such as a SIP stack, signalling control and the voice codecs are run natively in our devices, therefore diminishing the build costs. It also means that the consumer gets a quality Voice over IP offering with e.g. voicemail, caller ID and call forwarding
Over 100 million new broadband consumers will come online in the next 3 years, bringing the worldwide total to over 400 million high-speed connected homes. In order to differentiate themselves, broadband service providers must deliver value-added services to these consumers in addition to faster and faster bandwidth.
Vidanti facilitates this in two ways: First, we provide an array of value-added applications as part of our "out-of-the-box" offering. These include caller ID, e-mail, messaging, games, and online shopping from your TV. Second, the Vidanti platform enables service providers to extend our applications by providing an easy-to-use, open development environment and the means for consumers to download high-value applications to run on our platform-enabled devices. If you can design a web site, you can write an application for our device
Last, but not least, we are constantly investing in new technologies that are not quite ready enough to be cited here. It is part of our philosophy that we must anticipate technology trends on behalf of the customers that use our platform, and keep their investment in us justified.
Check with Vidanti for the availability details of particular products and features.
