Jake Widman
Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:23
Business IT -
Technology
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As part of its court defense of RealDVD, Real Networks displayed in court a possible future product: a set-top box to hold ripped DVDs.
The product, code-named "Facet," gives a glimpse of where Real really hopes to take its DVD-ripping technology.
Priced at less than US$300, the Facet product would come with a hard drive big enough to hold 50-75 ripped DVDs.
Testifying in the
lawsuit brought against RealDVD by the Motion Picture Association of America, Real CEO Rob Glaser showed how the box's interface made it possible to scan a list of stored titles and select one for viewing. Glaser pulled up an episode from a boxed set to show how quickly a consumer could start watching a stored film.
The interface could also display a description of the movie and cover art.
Glaser credited inspiration for the Facet to time he spent with a
Kaleidascape , a DVD copying and delivery system, while his wife was pregnant and confined to the house.
But the Kaleidascape system costs thousands of dollars, making Real think they could build the "Chevy" to Kaleidascape's "Porsche.
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