UK RF start up Mirics has extended its FlexiTV concept, whereby free to air transmitted TV services can be picked up with a single sub-$5 chip set, so that it can become a complete TV service, like a modern set top.
The new system called FlexiStreamTV can work on any device powered by Windows 7, and will create a home based server that can placeshift content to most portable devices. It relies on its own RF chip to tune and receive a signal from any TV system used across the world, and then uses the PC processor to demodulate the signal, and an Nvidia Cuda chip to decode and transcode the video.
The system means that any broadcast TV that comes from an antenna can be received, viewed, recording and placeshifted to mobile devices using standard streaming formats.
All that is needed for TV reception is a Windows 7 PC equipped with Mirics’ universal terrestrial broadcast receiver, either as a USB accessory or integrated into the PC. TV can then be viewed or recorded in all geographies using Windows Media Center, in HD or any other broadcast resolution. The same content can be re-formatted for whatever portable devices are used in the household and streamed using FlexiStream, to those devices. wherever they are, anywhere in the world, over any kind of broadband.
Jay Nunez, Vice President of WW Sales and Marketing at Mirics, commented: ‘Mirics has simplified the process of streaming content from home with a complete end-to-end solution. From RF feed to remote LCD, Mirics delivers a global TV receiver by means of a multi-band RF front-end, revolutionary Nvidia -assisted signal processing in software, and streaming with industry-standard protocols to a lean, fast-to-download client application.’
Mirics also said that its original FlexiTV devices, which simply allowing viewing digital TV on a PC, are now shipping in volume.