Streaming21 Joins Digital Home Alliance with Microsoft Home Server Team

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(Free-Press-Release.com) December 12, 2007 -- Taipei, Taiwan – December 13, 2007 – Streaming21, the world leader in broadcast-quality streaming solutions, along with Microsoft (NASDAQ “MSFT”) Taiwan; WNC (TSE:6285), a global leader in wireless communications and IPTV; Sampo (TSE:1604), the leading 3C brand for electrical home appliances; Gigabyte (TSE:2376), a leading motherboard manufacturer; and Chenbro (8210.TWO), a leading mechanical solutions and chassis provider; today announced the formation of the Digital Home Alliance at Microsoft Windows Home Server product launch press conference at Microsoft Taiwan office.

The goal of the new alliance is to build and expand a solid digital home ecosystem to drive the worldwide digital home industry. The Microsoft Embedded Team will engage in intensive promotional seminars to present the fully-integrated end-to-end digital home solution at Microsoft Windows Embedded Seminars around Asia (including Taiwan, China, Singapore, and Korea).

Working together, the Digital Home Alliance will bring to market end-to-end digital home solutions aimed at connecting the digital home with the networked world via personalized “killer” applications. The open web-based platform makes it easy to add unlimited applications for service expansions and allows users to subscribe their preferred services via Home Server. Streaming21’s innovative Home Entertainment Services, WNC’s powerful set-top box, Sampo’s 42” LCD Full HDTV (supporting 1080p with HDMI), reliable Gigabyte server hardware and a smart-looking chassis from Chenbro are seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Home Server and Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, making it easy to add or expand services for digital home.

The Home Sever acts as the central control center for digital home entertainment, automation, surveillance and communication applications. The platform enables media display on TVs and provides an easy management system for personal content through the PC. This unique Home Server allows users to manage personal content (such as photos, videos and music), enjoy internet community content (web photo albums and video sharing for example) and display real-time internet content (Internet news, weather, stocks and more) on TVs. It also offers many intriguing features such as Personal Video Recording (PVR), streaming music, IPTV, VOD and many more. Personal broadcasting and commercial content services such as Internet radio, movie rentals or home karaoke services are forthcoming.

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