ViewSonic CorporationProduct: Wireless Media Gateway and Wireless Media Adapter
Description: ViewSonic’s line of media content products, ViewSonic Media
Networks, will be able to deliver all your digital media content
to any display, anywhere in your home. All your digital media is
accessible from one location, the ViewSonic Media Gateway
(or a PC), and viewable on a PC monitor or TV display.You can
store your content in one location, watch videos, organize and
play your music collection, showcase digital photos, or listen to
Internet radio.
DEMO says: As wireless technology becomes integrated with home electron-ics,
who better to develop home media products optimized for
high-resolution video? ViewSonic brings its expertise to the wire-less
media server market in a device that aggregates and distrib-utes
content to networked displays at 10 MB/sec. The product
is an ideal move for ViewSonic, which brings not only strong
technology know-how but also a strong brand to this emerging
market.
Market Outlook: IDC predicts the U.S. media networking category will be $31M
in 2004 growing to $59M in 2005 and $85M in 2006 (from
IDC Home Networking March 2004).
Funding: Privately held
Competitors: PrismIQ, squeezebox, Microsoft
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