14 DAY TRIAL // It seems that even Technicolor hasn't escaped the slate phenomenon, having developed what it calls it the MediaNavi multi-screen content platform that runs on such products, creating a sort of portable TV/communications/entertainment accessory hybrid.
The press release issued by the company does not exactly hold any sort of technical details of the device pictured.
That, however, is not an issue, as the subject is not the device, but "the first cross-platform/cross-operating system user experience geared towards network service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers.”
Basically, Technicolor's MediaNavi is a cloud-based solution that should work on any tablet with decent multimedia playback, even those with little storage.
“MediaNavi was developed to bring the real service power of networks to devices such as tablets, set-top boxes, and mobile devices enabling consumers to discover new content, share their discovery with their social network and consume content in a rich and immersive manner,” said Frederic Rose, Chief Executive Officer of Technicolor.
“With our near 100 year history of serving content creators and studios worldwide, always with an emphasis on image quality, the power of metadata is something Technicolor truly understands,” he added.
“Leveraging metadata to power the user experience in a new manner is a unique goal of MediaNavi. Another is to deliver MediaNavi as a cross platform, device agnostic solution that operators can deploy quickly, while utilizing many of their legacy set-top-box devices in the process,” Rose went on to saying.
What remains to be seen is whether or not this new platform gains as good a traction amongst consumers as Technicolor hopes.
Either way, the MediaNvi will doubtlessly solve the content availability issue for many slates. After all, access to a rich, cloud-based multimedia database will definitely hold some sway when end-users are trying to decide on a purchase.