Accedo, the TV front-end UX specialist, has made an unexpected entrance into the hardware business via its subsidiary Hibox Systems, the software development team that virtually disappeared after its acquisition by Accedo in early 2021. Hibox Systems is launching Hibox xprs, pitched as a “turnkey hospitality entertainment solution”—in other words an HDMI streaming dongle targeted at the hotel industry. “Hibox xprs is not competing with Synamedia Senza because that device is targeting the consumer market,” were the fateful words presented during a pre-IBC press day at Accedo’s London office. Instinctively, we interjected. If Accedo had been carefully reading Faultline over the last 11 months since Synamedia presented Senza days before IBC 2024, the team would know full well that the…