Android set-top boxes and media players at CES

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Android set-top boxes and media players at CES
by Steve Bush, Wednesday 06 January 2010

Processor firm MIPS Technologies is to demonstrate Android set-top boxes incorporating its cores this week.
6 N* R+ e$ n* q" X6 K& l6 ]"During CES, MIPS and complementary solution providers will demonstrate the world’s first Android-based set-top boxes, Android running on a MIPS-based netbook, and the world’s first social media centre for Android-based embedded platforms," said MIPS.
  T# P" U! _2 k" aWestern Mediabridge and Sigma Designs, will demonstrate one of the MIPS/Android set-top boxes.
% C9 J5 u' j  h, rIt has 1080p video, video-on-demand, ThinkFree Office (Word, spreadsheet, presentation) viewer software, a web browser, and a remote control and keyboard interface.

# M9 `! ^+ l+ CA prototype of an Android IPTV set-top box developed by KDDI R&D Labs will also be on show, supporting multicasting, video-on-demand, remote control user interface, and digital rights management.
# A3 n  f" k7 kInside is a MIPS-based SMP8654 media processors from Sigma Designs.
The netbook is the YeeLoong8089 from Lemote and runs Android on a MIPS-Based Loongson processor, and is claimed by MIPS to be is the world’s first laptop that contains completely free software.
( A5 F% J( {' _6 ^' Z+ p; BTo be demonstrated on a chip from Sigma Designs, ConnecTV is licensable social media centre software for Android systems from Home Jinni

Included is a framework for building UPnP, DLNA and DPWS home area network applications, and a framework for integrating the home with IMS and service provider networks.
! |" F' Z- j! E8 i1 mAs well as distributing media around the home, the software also enables consumers to search, discover, categorise and view online media content directly from a TV, and to communicate with others.