BesTV and Lenovo partner to launch advanced internet TV set top box for China market featuring VIA Nano™ processor
Taipei, Taiwan, 5th January, 2012 -
VIA Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator of power efficient x86
processor platforms, today announced that BesTV New Media, a subsidiary
of Shanghai Media Group (SMG) and Lenovo Group in Shanghai have adopted
the VIA Nano processor to power the Lenovo A30 Internet TV Set Top Box
which the two companies jointly launched today in Shanghai.
The Lenovo A30 Internet TV set top box is powered
by a combination of a 1.2GHz VIA Nano processor and VIA VX900 media
system processor, providing powerful processing performance and full
compatibility with mainstream video and audio formats.
Subscribers
of the Lenovo A30 Internet set top box will have access to a wide array
of standard TV content including news, dramas, sports, documentaries,
movies and children's programming as well as Cloud based games, karaoke
and other new content services. As a special feature, BesTV is able to
provide Lenovo customers with "Latest" and "Exclusive" content, allowing
them to enjoy up to 90% of box office hits within a month of their
release date from the comfort of the living room. Other features include
a picture-in-picture function as well as a "one-touch button" to
seamlessly switch between TV and Internet services. Users can use mobile
devices as remote controls as well as fling content between the two for
a seamless continued viewing experience.
"VIA is delighted
to have our VIA Nano processor platform chosen for the Lenovo A30
Internet set top box," said Richard Brown, VP of Marketing, VIA
Technologies, Inc. "The advanced performance and low power consumption
makes it the ideal platform for driving the proliferation of Smart TV
innovation in China."
"Smart TV will grow to more than half
of the total TV market share by 2015," said Xiong Wen, the General
Manager of Digital Home Group of Lenovo. "VIA platforms provide future
performance scalability which will aid Lenovo to continue to expand the
product lines for the digital home and maximize the user experience
through the perfect integration of hardware, software and cloud services
into the future."
"In the Internet era, OTT TV will
increasingly move towards wireless applications, HD content and more
diversified services," said Rui Bin, Vice President of BesTV New Media.
"The cooperation among BesTV, Lenovo and VIA will enable rapid future
innovations to the meet the changing requirements for the market and
access the establishment of an ordered and sustainable OTT TV industry."
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The Lenovo A30 Internet Set Top Box will be available in China in Q1 of 2012.