Today at the 2005 World Broadband Forum in Yokohama, Japan, Aeon Digital announced the DV-280 digital video recorder, which promises to bring the digital video recording to IPTV (television-via-Internet) via Aeon’s own Aeon Digital Network and users’ existing broadband Internet connections. Customers connect the DV-280 to their television and their broadband Internet connection to stream or download media via the Internet or from Windows PCs on their local network. Aeon Digital says the DV-280 DVR will be available in retail stores in September 2005 with an estimated retail price of $299 under undisclosed OEM brand names.
The DV-280 downloads audio and video content via the Aeon Digital Network, which the company describes as a “highly scalable, standards-based server system that can deliver secure audio and video in both streaming and on-demand formats.” The company boasts that since their network is not restricted to particular service providers, any customer with a DV-280 and a high-speed Internet connection can access any media on the Aeon network, subject only to regional content licensing restrictions. The DV-220 supports video and audio in Windows Media Player 9 format; presumably, the device also relies on Microsoft’s digital rights management technology.
The DV-280’s features are listed as follows:
- Record up to 200 hours of television on the internal hard drive
- Burn up to 30 hours of video to a single recordable DVD disc
- Play digital media
