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See how Active TV Technology gives you seamless viewing of the Web, formatted for your TV, courtesy of your home network.

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What is Active TV technology?

Before, you could watch it on your PC. Now, you can watch it on your TV.

Instead of being tied to satellite or cable TV broadcast schedules, Active TV lets you watch your favorite content when you want to.

Active TV merges your PC with your TV, and expands your Internet viewing beyond the PC, to include the TV. You can bring TV web channels to your living room from around the world via the Internet. Your TV infrared remote control lets you operate everything the easy way – no need for a mouse or keyboard.

See something that interests you on your PC? Now enjoy it with your friends on your TV. You can easily create, launch, and share your own TV website with your wedding, birthday party, holiday, children’s sports photos and videos – all seamlessly assembled into an Internet-accessed TV-web channel.

Active TV also expands TV viewing choices for both content producers and consumer. Content producers can now reach viewers directly without first going through major studios and consumers can now get beyond limited choice TV from their provider by accessing Internet-based TV content.

Using the latest desktop or notebook PCs powered by AMD multi-core processors, you can now distribute Internet video to multiple TVs around your home. Surf and watch Web videos without sacrificing performance.



All those fun and interesting things you find on the Web? Imagine viewing them on your big-screen TV.
Active TV technology makes it easy to build and distribute TV-web channels. You can access favorites from popular video sharing web sites as a TV-web channel and stream it to the TV for the whole family to enjoy. No need to deal with the heat, noise, and maintenance required to keep a PC attached to your TV.

Make your TV viewing options as big as the Internet
Using tools and formats long familiar to creators of PC-web content, such as Flash video and HTML, it is now possible for anyone to create and distribute a TV-web channel. And with AMD64 dual-core technology, an AMD LIVE! PC can be used to format and deliver these TV-web channels, thereby expanding options for the TV viewer and providing access to greater choice and interactivity on the TV.

All AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 dual-core based PCs are Active TV Technology ready. To bring TV web channels to your living room, look for Active TV technology featured in game consoles, digital media adapters, networked set-top boxes, and TVs.

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Active TV Ecosystem Collaborators
AMD is collaborating with Active TV technology ecosystem partners to bring TV-web channels to the television, including:


TV-web Channel Developers:

•  Orb, provides the ability to MyCast, including access to photos, music, videos, live television, and other digital content on a home PC at anytime and from any internet-connected device, such as a mobile phone, PDA or portable PC.

•  Veoh Networks, an Internet Television distributor that allows content producers from major entertainment studios and television networks to independent video producers and enthusiasts to create and broadcast their own TV show or a channel full of shows, regardless of file sizes/length of video.

•  Vmix Media, an online community for sharing user-generated content, with a focus on video.

Middleware Enablers:

•  Avtrex, develop core software components for digital home entertainment devices, including customized and integrated applications for televisions, set-top boxes, DVD players, DVD recorders, home media servers, and network gateways. They are adding Active TV technology to their STB products.

•  BroadQ, which provides digital media delivery solutions, including broadband and IPTV solutions such as Qtv, which leverages the Sony PlayStation 2 platform for making all forms of digital entertainment accessible on the home entertainment system.

•  MediaMall Technologies, a digital media application developer focused on the software which enables PC's and connected devices to deliver TV-Web channels to the television through a unique media application projection technology.

•  Oregan Networks is a leading provider of embedded solutions for digital home entertainment devices, comprising digital media streaming, home networking, TV browsing and user interface technology.

•  TVersity, which empowers individuals to organize and personalize their home and Internet multimedia collection (audio, video and images) and have universal access to it anywhere (at the home or on the go) anytime and from any device.

STB, DMA and TV developers:

•  D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, is a leading provider of wireless HD media players which, when connected to a home network, either wireless or wired, stream music, photos and HD videos to home entertainment systems quickly and with the highest quality technology has to offer.

•  Dream Multimedia, whose products are designed according to today's technological demands and on Open platform bringing the very best in versatility and compatibility. They don't just meet but exceed all industrial standards in digital satellite world today.

•  FTA is a Pan-European leader in the digital broadcast reception equipment market. FTA designs and markets consumer digital reception products (HD/SD STB’s and LNB’s) for the use of Free-to-Air and Pay TV services and provides DVB turnkey solutions for MSO’s, CE Players and video distribution integrators.

•  Futarque, a technology house focusing on software and hardware development for advanced set-top boxes. They are at the forefront of the digital television transformation. They develop set-top boxes and TVs capable of receiving Extended-PC distributed TV-web channels, as well as DVB digital TV reception.

•  Kjaerulff 1, founded in 1957 in Denmark, is Northern Europe’s leading supplier of Audio/Video, TV and IP equipment, with sales subsidiaries in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany and Poland. It is the distributor of Loewe - the high profiled German quality TV/Home Cinema brand - in Denmark, Finland and Sweden, as well as Digiality® and Maximum® branded digital receiver products.

•  TechniSat is the leading manufacturer of satellite reception products and TV sets in Germany, and as such pays great attention to the highest level of quality. This is borne out by the excellent test reviews achieved year after year.

•  TeleGent, whose core business is to bring the eHome revolution to everyone’s living room, is developing new ideas, concepts and technologies that make life easier and your home more interactive.

•  Worldsat, a leading European satellite and terrestrial set-top box manufacturer also adding Active TV technology to their STB products.

•  Wyplay, an innovative provider of hardware and software solutions for the digital home entertainment market, is designing next generation Media Centers.

•  Active-TV simulator (for installation on a PC)

Active TV requires a PC using either Microsoft® Windows® XP or Microsoft® Vista®, and a simple one-time installation of Active TV software to format and distribute TV-web channels to Active TV-enabled TV devices. A wired or wireless 802.11 home network is required to connect each TV and STB to the networked PC. Broadband service to the home is also needed to deliver PC-web content to the PC, and TV-web channels to Active TV enabled TV devices.

Active TV technology-enabled consoles, digital media adapters, networked set-top boxes, and TVs will be available in retail in Europe and the US in 2007.

Contact

For more information on Active TV technology and creating TV-web channels please contact: Graham Kinahan at (512) 602-1000 or by email.

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