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QuickPlay Media to Launch Mobile Set-Top Box

5:41 pm on August 25, 2009 | Category: Mobile Devices, Multimedia, Television, Wireless Technology

QuickPlay Media has announced plans to introduce a new set-top box product that will make television content available on mobile devices.

The platform will allow cable and IPTV subscribers to record and save TV content for later viewing, or transfer it onto a wireless device via Wi-Fi, or a 3G cellular network.

“Consumers are eager to take their entertainment experience beyond the confines of their living rooms,” commented QuickPlay CEO, Wayne Purboo. “With the Mobile Set-Top Box solution, we enable service providers to extend the value of their premium programming by making it available to subscribers anywhere they may go, complete with all of the capabilities theyâ€™ve come to count on from their set-top boxes.”

The QuickPlay set-top box also includes Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, allowing broadcasters to protect their intellectual property by setting ‘content expiry’ dates.

QuickPlay’s product is expected to compete with Sling Media’s Slingbox DVR, which already offers mobile television features.

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