DirecTV, Samsung, Broadcom and Cisco are partnering to develop a specification for a full-featured “pixel accurate” Remote User Interface (RUI) that will form the core of the new RVU technology. The RVU Alliance complements and benefits existing industry interoperability initiatives and underscores its founders’ commitment to the sharing of digital content in the connected home.
Romulo Pontual, DIRECTV’s chief technology officer said “We believe both consumers and service providers will embrace consumer electronic equipment with RVU technology because it enables a high quality digital entertainment experience throughout the connected home. We are committed to the RVU technology and are planning to deploy it in media servers and clients beginning early in 2010.”
The RVU Alliance is an Oregon-based non-profit mutual benefit corporation with membership participation at Founding Promoter, Promoter and Contributor levels.
RVU Alliance’s pixel accurate RUI technology will provide an identical user experience on all RVU-based thin clients CE devices throughout the connected home, including digital TVs (DTVs), digital media adapters (DMAs) and set-top boxes (STBs).
Thomas Rhee, Samsung’s SVP of Digital Set Top Box said “With the addition of RVU technology, device software integration process is simplified for consumer electronics manufacturers such as Samsung. We’re excited about the RVU RUI and how this technology has DLNA as its foundation.”
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