Tribbox officially released for the public

Today, AHT released Tribbox for the masses. Well, I can only say: WELCOME new Tribbox users. Please join the community at our forum. Have fun!
Read on for the whole press release or discuss it our forum

The offical press release of AHT:

TRIBBOX

AHT's (Advanced Home Technologies) first hardware release, supported by ST Microelectronics and TU Delft (Tribler software)

AHT, a new dutch set-top-box manufacturer, will release a product for the open source community called the "Tribbox". The Tribbox is a new generation set-top-box which connects the TV to the Internet. It can also be used as hard-disk recorder, for internet telephony and for digital TV. Since the product's software is released under open source license, the technology is is available for everybody to experiment with and to make new products with.

The Tribbox is based on STMicroelectronics' ST7109 HDTV single chip H264 decoder, embedding a real time Linux OS.

Tribler is developed at Delft University of Technology in cooperation with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. They will help with supporting everybody who will use the Tribler peer-to-peer software. The Tribler Peer-to-Peer technology can be used to exchange files, movies and music and to watch Television. Furthermore, Tribler is "Social" software, which means that within Tribler you can meet your friends and taste-buddies. These related persons can help you with finding and downloading the piece you are looking for. The more you help others, the more you may expect in return.

The TU Delft is of course happy that Tribler will be used in an open-source set-top-box. "Tribler is being developed as an open platform for watching film and music in a pleasant way."

Tribbox runs Linux and is delivered with all documentation, programming guides and development software, as well as a Linux desktop distribution with many sample programs.

The Tribbox developer system is a member of AHT's ST7109 based family of business-to-business (oem) and business-to-consumer products. The first consumer product "Ariana Media Center", to be released under AHT's own "Allsii" consumer brand, will be introduced at the CES show in Las Vegas, in January 2008.

Tribbox will be available directly from AHT's online Allsii shop:

http://www.allsiishop.com

For more information, please contact:

AHT International BV
Satijnbloem 57
3068 JP Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Phone: +31-(0)10-4512440
Fax: +31-(0)10-2095471

Website:  www.aht-international.com
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For more pictures of the Tribbox: take a look that the picture gallery