Consumer Electronics Association: Press Room
I think this is a massive step forward for 'plug and play' in home networking linking consumer electronis, computers and network hardware together:
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced today that its Home Network Committee (R7) has adopted a new standard for home networks, designated CEA-2008 -The Digital Entertainment Network Initiative DENi (TM). The standard was created to make it easier for consumers to share content over a home network and to establish consistent interoperability between consumer electronics end devices. The standard collects existing standards and specifies how they work together.
"With DENi, consumers will be able to choose compatible home networking products from different CE manufacturers and literally plug-and-play them together with no user setup required. Now that we have agreed on how to do audio/video networking, we can start building products which share content with other vendors' products over the network."
I wonder what companies will be the first into this arena and use the standard to promote interoperability?
BTW: If anyone wants to pay me to blog CES 2004, I am sooooo there :)
Posted by Paul Goodison at September 2, 2003 10:13 PM | TrackBack