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Onkyo Unveils New Rovi Powered Home Theater Systems

6 October 2009 by Josh Shenkle  1,051 views Comments
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Rovi_Logo_Hero_Black_RGB Rovi Corporation (Formerly known as Macrovision) today announced that consumers using devices built with the latest edition of Rovi’s Connected Platform media networking software will be able to find, play and share content (such as movies, TV shows, music and photos) stored on Windows 7-based Media Center PCs.

This really could be something interesting, as news and info is still scarce, Onkyo did however, announce two new AV Receivers, the TX-NAB807 and TX-NR807, that both will be integrated with the Rovi Connected Platform which are also Windows 7 Play-to certified.

As to whether or not the devices will really play back recorded tv shows, in full quality, without any transcoding has yet to be seen, but the more devices out there that can support playing back of Media Center content the better.

For more information head over to Ravi Corp’s website.

via Global Newswire


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  • Macrovision made their fortune by courting Hollywood with ridiculous DRM. They may have a new name, but consider me a skeptic that Rovi is going to turn over a new leaf. Just the fact that it only supports Windows 7 makes me wonder how robust these receivers will really be. Why does a file have to be "play to" certified in order for a consumer to view it. Are they going to support high definition MKV or is this just another pathetic attempt at trying to trick consumers into buying unnecessary DRM at the hardware level?
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