Simple.TV Teams With Buffalo and ViXS

Simple.TV announced at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show that it has partnered with Buffalo Inc. to launch a DVR designed for the connected TV world.

Bringing live and recorded TV to connected devices both inside and outside the home, Simple.TV turns the iPad, Roku box, Google TV, or any web browser into a full-featured DVR. With the addition of a USB 2.0 hard drive or NAS, Simple.TV users can store thousands of hours of network television for viewing anywhere, anytime.

"We are pleased to be working with Simple.TV to develop the hardware platform for their innovative DVR," said Maresuke Ishii, General Manager of Buffalo Inc. Digital Home Business Unit. "Our hardware and networking expertise combined with Simple.TV’s vision, web services and app development, have resulted in a groundbreaking product for digital content consumers."

At the heart of the Simple.TV DVR is the ViXS XCode 4210. With its ability to create adaptive AVC MPEG-4 video streams from a high definition video input, the XCode 4210 enables the Simple.TV DVR to convert broadcast television into compressed and flexible video streams that can be accessed by the most popular consumer electronics devices, such as the iPad and Roku media streamer.

"We"re pleased that Simple.TV and Buffalo Inc. have chosen to work with ViXS on the development of this truly innovative product," said Sally Daub, President and CEO of ViXS Systems Inc. "Simple.TV showcases the power and performance of the XCode 4210 architecture in a cost effective product that is ideally targeted at today"s connected consumer."

"We are thrilled to be working with Buffalo Inc. and ViXS Systems Inc. on the development and delivery of Simple.TV", said Mark Ely, CEO of Really Simple Software, Inc., makers of Simple.TV. "With their assistance, we are on our way to bring the best of television to tablets, phones and connected televisions everywhere."

About the Simple.TV DVR
Unlike most DVRs, Simple.TV has no traditional analog or HDMI video outputs. Once connected to the consumer’s home network, Simple.TV streams content directly to a web browser or to dedicated Apps that users launch on their favorite connected platforms. Simple.TV is developing apps for the iPad, Roku, Google TV and other connected platforms, in addition to standard web browsers.

Priced at $149 plus a $4.99/month subscription, Simple.TV will ship in the spring of 2012.