Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 03:27 PM EST Contributed by: sde
A vendor of Linux-based IP set-top boxes (STBs) announced that it has sold its two millionth unit. Meanwhile, Amino's latest "AmiNet130M" model, which offers MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 in HD (1080i) resolution, has recently won two industry awards, says the company.
U.K.-based Amino launched its first AmiNet STB box in 2002, says the company, with its AmiNet100 IP STB. It now claims to have sold two million of its various Linux-based AmiNet boxes. The appliances bring Internet TV to consumer TVs, and deliver on-demand video and IPTV to hotel guests, hospice residents, and Internet video service subscribers. Based on low-power ARM-based SoCs and even standalone TI DSPs (digital signal processors) at the lower end, the company's AmiNet boxes have long used Opera browsers as an integral component of the user interface. Amino also licenses its Linux-based IPTV software stack to other hardware manufacturers under the "IntAct" brand, together with Opera, which customers can sub-license directly from Amino.
