OpenGlobe-Enabled Products Receive Host of Awards
Reprinted from an OpenGlobe press release:
INDIANAPOLIS - August 5, 2002 - OpenGlobe, the leading media management and entertainment services software provider of its kind, today announced that its world-class customers have received a prestigious array of national and international awards, further validating that the OpenGlobe software and services continue to deliver breakthrough experiences in home entertainment.
Recent awards for products containing OpenGlobe technologies include:
· Kenwood Sovereign(tm) Entré
CES 2002, Innovations Award
AudioVideo International, 2001 Grand Prix Hi-Fi Special Citation
Popular Mechanics, 2002 Design & Engineering Award
Escient Convergence Fireball(tm)
CES 2002, TechTV Best of CES Award
CES 2002, Innovations Award
2002 Home Automation Magazine, Hot 50 Products Award
Electronic House, Product of the Year 2001 Award
Escient TuneBase 200(tm)
Audio Revolution, Best of 2001 Award
“We’re tremendously honored that our technology has played a key role in our OEM partners’ success,” said Bernie Sepaniak, President and CEO of OpenGlobe. “Together, we’re bringing a world of meaningful capabilities into users’ home entertainment systems, and it’s exciting that major national organizations and publications are recognizing our innovative approaches.”
OpenGlobe is the first company to enable delivery of home entertainment components that dynamically access physical and digital content over a home network from multiple devices through a rich user interface that includes cover art, entertainment news and information. OpenGlobe’s media management and entertainment software is designed to enhance the user experience and bring new power to a wide variety of consumer electronics devices.
Leveraging over six years of delivering award-winning media recognition, metadata delivery and media management software to high-end home theater applications, OpenGlobe’s technologies enable CD changers to gain a rich user interface, CD players to evolve into digital audio jukeboxes, DVD players to evolve into enhanced DVD players, receivers to gain broadcast and Internet radio station auto-tuning and portable MP3 jukeboxes to gain a natural place in the home entertainment system. Together, these products create a distributed media environment where access to diverse media types is made powerfully simple from anywhere and to anywhere in the home.