Electronics, Media Giants Form HD Alliance
Posted by Sachin Garg on 25th December 2005 | Permanent Link
TechNewsWorld: HANA is in discussions with standards bodies, including the Consumer Electronics Association, CableLabs, the Motion Picture Association of America, the Advanced Television Systems Committee and the 1394 Trade Association. HANA’s goal is to utilize these groups’ technologies to enable HD content sharing around the home.
Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems formed HANA, the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance. In addition to the founding members, ARM, Freescale Semiconductor and Pulse-LINK have joined HANA as contributing members.
HANA members are working together to create a design guideline for secure high-definition audiovisual networks, which they hope will speed the creation of new, higher quality, easier-to-use HD products.
HANA’s mission is to use existing technology and specifications to create industry design guidelines that let consumers view, pause and record five or more HD channels simultaneously without compromising quality of service, as well as view, pause and record HD programming anywhere in the home with just one set-top box.
HANA also wants to enable consumers to share personal content between PCs Computing Solutions You Need When You Need Them From CDW. and AV devices while keeping protected content secure; to control all AV devices and access content with just a single remote per room; and to add any device to the home network with just one cable.
In the first half of 2006, HANA plans to work with Advanced Access Content System (AACS), Open Media Commons and other digital rights management technologies to give consumers new flexibility in using content across the entire home network, including moving content across multiple devices.