Selecting An IPTV Solution
Sonata IPTV™ Products
The Sonata product line is designed to bundle specific features and benefits based on needs and uses of certain types of customers. From the economical Sonata IPTV™-100 to the feature-rich Sonata IPTV™-200, Sonata enables providers to deploy the video portion of the “triple-play,” in a very cost-effective set-top box solution that supports the most advanced open standard video codecs such as H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10) and Windows® Media9.
Choose the appropriate Sonata product that best meets your needs based on the list of features and benefits below.
| Feature | Uses and Benefits | Sonata Model No. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPTV-100 | IPTV-120 | IPTV-200 | ||
| DaVinci DSP Technology from Texas Instruments | High performance and high functionality on a low bandwith connection at a affordable price point for mass market. | DM6446 | DM6446 | DM6446 |
| Linux (MontaVista) | High performance operating system using minimal resources to deliver good end-user response time |  |
|
|
| Compression/Decompression codecs | High video performance with support for common compression standards such as H.264, Windows Media 9, MPEG-2 | |
|
|
| Ethernet | Access to mutiple internet resources such as television programming, VOD, browse internet for content, send & receive e-mails/video mails | |
|
|
| USB 2.0 | Allow connection of external devices such as VoIP voice/video phone, USB hard drive, USB printer, Camcorder | |
|
|
| Composite, Component & S-Video Outputs | Transmit video to the TV set | |
|
|
| Analog & Digital Audio Outputs | Transmit audio to the TV set | |
|
|
| PTZ control | Enable Pan/Tilt/Zoom control for internet camera | |
|
|
| Microphone in (VoIP) | Enables use of IP based telephone solutions at the same time as viewng video content on TV set | |
|
|
| Image Enhancement | Greatly improves image clarity and quality for an enhanced viewing experience in real-time for NTSC/PAL or HDTV (up to 1080i) | N/A | |
|
| Composite, Component & S-Video Inputs | Receive video from external components such as video recorder, DVD, etc. | N/A | N/A | |
| Analog Audio Input | Receive audio from external components | N/A | N/A | |
| Video camera input | Enables connection of a video camera that can be uses as a part of a videophone soluton using the Sonata set-top box | Optional | Optional | |
| Hard Drive | Used as a DVR for recording and playback and to enable pause, rewind and fast-forward. Larger sizes up to 500GB can be used to store large numbers of videos for a video juke-box which could hold approximately 600 DVD-quality, standard length movies. | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| 802.11G WiFi | Enable IP connection over a wireless link for receiving programming, browse internet, receive e-mail, VOIP, etc. | Optional | Optional | Optional |
« back
