It is not much greater than many of the wall warts at the moment filling retailers in your power strip, however this reference design from Sigma Designs may very well be your next cable box. With HomePlug networking, Z-Wave RF remote management know-how and the power to course of multiple 1080p streams directly built in, it only must be plugged in to the wall (and connected to a Television via HDMI) to get to work. connect with the network and pull in video from the internet, feeds from an IPTV supplier like U-Verse (or Comcast ultimately), or multiroom streams from a related DVR. At its heart is the SMP8670 chip unveiled at CES that's optimized for XBMC, Adobe AIR and Flash which might make it a perfect extender for someone like TiVo or high frequency amplifier Boxee, if Sigma can get them to bite on the concept. Until then, all we can show you might be a couple of pics of the bare internals in the gallery and a press launch after the break.
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