The AmiNET500 is the latest addition to Amino’s award winning range of small, low-cost, high performance set-top boxes and contains an 80Gbyte hard disk drive which is capable of storing around 40hours of program material. The product has been developed in response to requests from telcos experiencing consumer demand for PVRs as part of their IPTV services.
IPTV is developing rapidly as it enables video-on-demand and interactive services to be delivered over broadband telephone networks. Subscribers can watch digital-quality TV programs and have access to a wider selection of movies than presently available, while benefiting from full interactivity. Where network bandwidth is insufficient to provide direct access to on-demand video streams, content can be uploaded to the AmiNET500 for subsequent playback with full trick-play features including fast forward and reverse, skip back and forward, and slow-motion frame-by-frame.
