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High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance Showcases Connected Home Entertainment Experience at CONNECTIONS Digital Home Conference (10/5/2006)

The High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) will demonstrate the next-generation connected home entertainment experience in Pulse~LINK Booth #413 at CONNECTIONS(TM): The Digital Home Conference and Showcase, May 2-4, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Visitors will see how HANA's design guidelines for secure HD audio-video networks can help speed the creation of new, higher quality and easier to use HD products.

The demonstration in Pulse~LINK's booth will showcase how HANA networking guidelines will dramatically simplify and enhance the home entertainment experience. HANA is a cross-industry collaboration addressing the end-to-end needs of connected, HD, home entertainment products and services. Promoter members include Charter Communications, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., JVC, NBC Universal, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments and Warner Bros. Technical Operations Inc. Pulse~LINK is a contributing member of HANA and will debut its CWave(TM) Gigabit UWB technology at the conference.

HANA's mission is to create industry design guidelines, utilizing existing technology and specifications that will help enable consumers to:

* View, pause and record 5+ HD channels simultaneously without compromising quality of service; * View, pause and record HD stored on a PVR from anywhere in the home; * Share personal content from PCs to AV devices while keeping protected content secure; * Control all AV devices and access content with just a single remote per room; and * Add any device to the home network with just one cable.

HANA-compliant products will include HDTVs, next-generation DVD players, personal video recorders, set top cable boxes and home theater systems. The first commercial products are expected to be available later this year.

www.HANAalliance.org