ISTANBUL, 23^rd MARCH 2011 – AirTies, the innovative wireless networking vendor, today announced the company’s revolutionary new media player application which runs on AirTies’ set-top boxes as a retail user experience or provided as a valued added service to enrich third party User Interface offered by a service provider. The application is able to browse and play audio, video and photos from connected USB devices and display text subtitles for video content.

 

Additional functionality on the New Media Player allows users to play audio, video and display images from networked Digital Living Network Alliance (“DLNA”) or Universal Plug and Play (“UPnP”) servers, which makes it easier for consumers to use, share and enjoy content in the home, connected either in wired or wireless mode. It also functions independently without network, running the application from internal memory.   

 

The Media Player application allows users to play webTV and video from online sites, browse and consume web content including social networking sites using special widgets, as well as playing radio from online radio sites and online music sources. Media Player supports different widgets like RSS feeds for reading the news and targeted social networking widgets. 

 

Coming on the heels of AirTies’ successful range of innovative IP STBs, it offers a new Media box that is ideal for the retail sector providing simple network connectivity, intuitive user interface and excellent viewer experience with high definition video and superb graphics.  It can be localised for each market segment and utilises AirTies’ unrivalled AirTouch technology.

 

Jim Lomax, EVP International Sales & Marketing at AirTies, commented, “The New Media Player is a fantastic value added product for service providers to incorporate into existing customer offerings to differentiate themselves from competitors. It also has huge potential for the retail sector and for existing AirTies customers, adding a host of new media capabilities combined with AirTies’ trademark ease of set up and wireless options.”