Entone Aims for Hybrid, Streaming Video

Oct. 29, 2012
Entone's Kamai 500 Hybrid Media Player, powered by the company's FusionTV platform, is intended to fuse traditional linear HDTV and cloud-based services.The Kamai 500 Series is designed to combine live TV and over-the-top (OTT) content such as streaming movies and shows from VUDU, social media apps from Facebook and Twitter, photo sharing from Flickr and Picasa, and Internet radio from Pandora.It supports pre-802.11ac WiFi (5.4GHz) for whole-home wireless HD video distribution, adaptive bitrate streaming, and management and remote diagnostic tools. It's also integrated with third-party middleware and DRM solutions such as Cubiware, Latens, Microsoft PlayReady, Minerva, Nordija and Verimatrix.