If you're like most folks watching the "set-top box" industry, you're probably thinking that the last thing the world needs is another set-top box. All the major manufacturers have them in various proprietary shapes and flavors and none of them have really satisfied viewers desires.

Meanwhile, it's pretty obvious there's a need to connect the internet with the television. It's the worlds largest and most rapidly growing collection of content and 2008 is the year it really became comprehensive. Today the bulk of the network's broadcast content is officially available online. If we needed any more proof, it was just announced that the US president elect will have a weekly video address available only online.

Our experiences with open electronics over the last six years made the solution pretty clear to us. What's needed is a device squarely between the dedicated, proprietary electronics devices and the powerful but clunky and expensive personal computer. What's needed is a device that uses the open internet standards as they exist today to bring existing content, as is, to user's TV sets. If you want to provide access to the vast wealth of free internet video, a device must support all the standards, including Adobe Flash. That product is called the Neuros LINK and it's available now as a Gamma Product with a four month no questions asked return period.

It's great that some providers are working with device makers to bring pieces and portions of internet content to devices, and it goes without saying we welcome that trend, in the meantime though, theres a lot of compelling content that's out there and viewers shouldn't have to wait. Likewise, it's pretty hard to predict exactly where online video is going, so adoption of the web standards provides future protection too.

There isn't a lot of magic in bringing that content to the TV set, but it does require a shift in philosophy, and openness is at the center of it. Virtually all the electronics manufacturers have a longstanding tradition of trying to gain an advantage by making as much of their systems proprietary as possible. In the case of the internet, where myriad standards exist, they have simply waited for that content to come to them. At the same time, it's not enough to just drop users to a web browser, there needs to be a navigation structure that makes it feel like TV browsing rather than web browsing.

The Neuros LINK is the best articulation we could make as to why open electronics are every bit as important to the most mainstream user as they are to the most hardcore hacker. The thing we're most proud of is not the detail behind how we got here or what's under the hood, but the results, which pretty much speak for themselves. Although The Neuros LINK is a Gamma Product , it has plenty of functionality today for any user to understand its capabilities. It's quite simply the most powerful piece of electronics that links the internet (and your home network) to your television. Whether you want to play downloaded content in practically any format from whatever source you choose, or stream shows directly from the broad collection of internet video websites (Hulu.com, nbc.com, etc.) The Neuros LINK offers the most mature, robust playback capabilities. And of course, it goes without saying, it's also the most open platform around that's sure to accommodate the future of TV too.

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