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Alliance to help grow global digital media market

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Jan 11, 2007

ANT Software has joined the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance to advance the commercialisation of connected products and services for premier high-definition content.

ANT Software has joined the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) to advance the commercialisation of connected products and services for premier high-definition (HD) content.

The announcement was made this week at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) by Dr Heemin Kwon, HANA Chairman and Samsung Executive Vice President.

ANT Software, together with IBM and CableVision, joins a host of HANA member organisations, including Warner Bros, Texas Instruments, Sun Microsystems, Samsung, NDS, NBC Universal, Mitsubishi, JVC, ARM and AMD.

HANA's vision is a trusted HD entertainment network where consumers can enjoy a wide range of new HD products and services with full HDTV quality-of-service networking and where TV service providers and content owners can be assured that commercial entertainment is used only as licensed.

HANA member companies plan to introduce a wide range of secure HANA consumer audio-video (AV) devices, including HANA TVs, audio systems, network interface units, digital video recorders and portable media players.

HANA AV systems will be simple to install - requiring no new home wiring and with typical set up in less than 15 minutes.

"We are very pleased to announce ANT Software as a HANA member".

"ANT's experience and strength in providing client software and browser solutions is unparalleled".

"They are pioneers in delivering industry leading solutions, based on open standards, that enable low risk, cost effective rollout of services critical to the delivery of HANA end-to-end entertainment services", said Dr Kwon.

"ANT is a driving force in the management, delivery and exploitation of digital media content to a range of media organisations across the globe".

"As the leading client software and services provider, we are committed to efforts like HANA to help grow the global digital media market in an open standards environment", said Simon Woodward, CEO of ANT Software.