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ActiveMania and DVBLogic announced a embedded CE device with built in DVBLink client. The IPTV box uses DVBLink on top of Windows Media Center Embedded to bring TV features to the box. The device will be available for BBN IPTV subscribers (BBN is a ISP in Beirut/Lebanon) from March.

Full press release:

ActiveMania and DVBLogic announce first CE device with embedded DVBLink 
 
New Smart IPTV Set-Top-Box aiHome 600 will be available at first to customers of the
ISP BBN
Eindhoven, Netherlands, 29 March 2012 – ActiveMania, focusing on smart living
technologies, and DVBLogic, enabling TV everywhere, announce the launch of the first
set-top box with embedded DVBLink for IPTV. As Windows Media Center does not
natively support IPTV, ActiveMania uses DVBLink on top of the embedded Windows
Media Center to provide advanced TV features such as live TV, time-shift, recording and
scheduling to IPTV customers. 
ActiveMania presented the new Smart IPTV Set-Top-Box aiHome 600 and other smart
living devices in cooperation with Solidere’s Broadband Network (BBN) division (BBN) at
the Smart Connected Life event end of February. BBN is the first ISP in Beirut/Lebanon
to provide fibre to the building services including IPTV. Besides the advanced TV
features the set-top box also allows the user to store movies and music collections, and
control home automation and security systems via the TV screen. Customers can also
browse the Internet including services for email access, online radio stations, weather
forecasts, news and social networks.
DVBLink for IPTV seamlessly integrates IPTV channels into Windows multimedia
applications especially Windows Media Center. The software enables all native TV
control features of Windows Media Center for these channels such as guide listings, live
TV, pausing live TV, one touch or timer recordings and parental control.
DVBLink applications support Windows operating systems from XP SP2 on. Using the
software on a headless system like a set-top-box together with embedded Windows
Media Center offers hardware manufacturers a complete IPTV enabled media centre
instantly. 
Further information can be found here: http://www.dvblogic.com/
Pricing and Availability
The Smart IPTV Set-Top-Box aiHome 600 will be available in retail starting March 2012
to subscribers of the BBN IPTV offering.
A free 20-day trial of DVBLink for IPTV for PCs is available at the DVBLogic website
http://www.dvblogic.com. The full version can be purchased there as well at 25 Euro. 
Hardware partner that are interested to license DVBLink for IPTV can contact
[email protected] to get further information. 

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