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News Release from: ANT | Subject: Galio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 January 2005
Browser runs on digital media processor
ANT Galio software for the TI TMS320DM642 digital media processor provides advanced video applications.
ANT Galio software for the TI TMS320DM642 digital media processor provides advanced video applications ANT Galio provides TI with a highly dynamic browser-based content presentation and control solution to complement the advanced digital media capabilities of the DM642 platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Running on TI's high performance DSP-based DM642, ANT Galio combines interactive content applications with feature-rich digital TV programming and services.
W3C standards-based Galio presents and controls everything from local device set-up menus and controls, through to complex remote services such as electronic programming guides (EPGs), video on demand (VoD) interfaces and dynamic news, information and communication applications.
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Using TI's solution allows manufacturers to use a wide range of advanced content technologies such as H.264, MPEG4, MPEG2 and Microsoft Windows Media Audio/Video Series 9 (WMV9) in their consumer electronics product applications such as Internet protocol TV (IPTV) decoders, set top boxes (STBs), TVs and video phones.
The DM642 also supports other software from ANT.
This includes ANT Fresco, the IPTV industry's most reliable and widely deployed browser-based content presentation solution and ANT Pureplay, a highly configurable digital-media management solution for organising, viewing and playing photos, audio and video content on consumer products.
"Combining TI's high performance digital signal processors and their support for advanced software coding technologies with ANT's feature-rich, HTML-based Galio allows OEMs to get to market faster and to enhance both their products design and the end-user experience of their products", said Arnaud Duclap, Business Development Manager for TI's Video/ Imaging DSP group in Europe.
"It also allows them to quickly address the needs of operators by enabling additional, value-driven services over the existing bandwidth".
The inherent flexibility of the TI DSP-based architecture allows manufacturers and operators to preserve their investments by using the TI platform to migrate their existing MPEG2-based designs to MPEG4, H.264 and WMV9, minimising the impact on content, user interface or middleware implementations.
"We are very excited that TI is the first silicon vendor to formally adopt ANT Galio", said Paul Jensen, Vice President Sales, the Americas for ANT.
"Galio running on the TI DSP brings a new range of opportunities to broadcasters and operators, enabling them to deliver superior digital TV services, with broader ranges of highly dynamic interactive content, using existing hardware, infrastructure and off-the-shelf development tools".
TI is demonstrating ANT Galio, Fresco and PurePlay on the DM642 this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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