Amiga to Deploy AmigaDE on Infotainment Device for the Home

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The STB partner is announced, and it's looking way, way cool!  

From Amiga.com:
http://www.amiga.com/corporate/022202-nokia.shtml

02-Feb-2002, Snoqualmie, WA - Amiga Inc, an emerging leader in media delivery, today announced the pre-installation, for the Swedish market, of Amiga on the Nokia Mediaterminal. The Nokia Mediaterminal, an innovative "infotainment' device for the home, recently launched in Sweden, combines digital video broadcast (DVB), gaming, streaming and downloadable digital media, full Internet access, and personal video recorder (PVR) technology. A Linux-based version of the AmigaDE has been incorporated into the Nokia Mediaterminal.

"Today's announcement is yet another significant step forward in our vision of enabling Amiga users to access their favorite applications from any device and on any platform,' said Bill McEwen, President/CEO, Amiga Inc. "The deployment of the Amiga on the Nokia Media terminal will give consumers an array of gaming and entertainment content from a central device attached to their televisions.'

By using AmigaDE on the Nokia Mediaterminal, consumers will be able to download, store and have access to the latest gaming applications, MP3, MPEG4, Universal Chat, and streaming video, turning the family TV into a multifunctional entertainment center.

About Amiga
Amiga Inc. established itself in 1985 as the premier provider of multi-media technologies to the world. Today Amiga continues leading the way in multi-media by providing language independent technologies to developers for writing and porting applications to a new multi-media platform that is hardware agnostic. Its AmigaDE powered with intent(TM) from Tao Group enables applications to run unchanged on a broad range of processors including ARM,StrongARM, Intel X-Scale, MIPS, Intel x86, Motorola 68K and Hitachi SH. It can run hosted on a wide variety of operating systems including Linux, Embedded Linux, Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, and Pocket PC. AmigaDE Player and applications for the AmigaDE Environment can be purchased at http://de.amiga.com. Amiga is based in Snoqualmie, WA, and has offices worldwide. Amiga can be reached at (425) 396-5660 or visit Amiga on the web at http://www.amiga.com.

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All right a real world product!

Nokia is a very well know brand name.  So this could mean real and steady income for Amiga Inc. Great news!

Sounds like a nice device too, but its not the Desk Top I'm waiting for.  It seems like TiVo only more.  I wonder how many here have a TiVo or want to get one and what the price of this will be?

Bob C.

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Sounds like a nice device too, but its not the Desk Top I'm waiting for. It seems like TiVo only more. I wonder how many here have a TiVo or want to get one and what the price of this will be?

I, as my friends can attest, am a TiVO junkie.  While I am VERY interested in this product, it's going to have to be as hackable and expandable as the TiVo for me to really do anything with it.  9 hours is nothing for space.  

The first thing I did with my TiVO -- before I had even received it -- is to order a 40 GB drive for it.  Even fully loaded, the new Nokia Drive can't be more than 10GB total...

We'll see, but I have extrarodinarily high hopes...

Wayne Hunt
Amiga.org