Telly: The Entertainment Computer

Telly manages and stores TV, video, music and pictures in a small, easy-to-use unit aimed at the Totally Connected living room

(Westminister, Colo.)-Feb. 6, 2003- Today Interact-TV, a leading innovator and developer of digital home entertainment solutions, shipped the first Telly units to new technology enthusiasts and 3rd-party developers across North America. Telly is the Home Entertainment Server which runs on Interact-TV’s highly flexible and expandable Linux-based Entertainment Operating System (EOS) and utilizes the VIA EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard from VIA Technologies, Inc.
Telly is for anyone interested in movies, TV, music, photography or home videos. Telly features a suite of applications that can store, index, and playback thousands of CDs and MP3s, digital photos and as much as 60 hours of personal digital videos. For television viewers, Telly provides a powerful, subscription-free interactive Personal Program Guide. Telly also provides centralized storage for easy access of all types of digital media including music, MP3, DIVX, MPEG, and digital photos. Select any of Telly's features from an interface designed exclusively for the television. Storing digital media on Telly gives you the freedom to share your media with other devices in the home, or over the Internet through a browser. Now all your music is only a click away, from any device connected to the home network. Telly can also check weather, stocks, and local theatre listings based on any zip code. All of these features are accessed through an easy to use television-based interface controlled by an on screen cursor remote, but can also share media through an internal web site and a local area network. All this allows Telly to support the information and media you demand today with the capability to support up-coming features like Entertainment On Demand tomorrow.
Telly combines the power of broadband Internet, cable television, and home networking to create a revolutionary Home Entertainment Server that enhances both television viewing and the digital media experience from the comfort of your living room environment. Telly provides a single system with a suite of innovative applications to store, manage and access all your digital media while making this same media available to all computer systems on the home network.
Telly, the Home Entertainment Server, makes managing digital media easy. It is a dedicated digital hub for the digital media enthusiast in a package the size of a stereo component. Moreover, Telly is fully extensible and "future proof"-- meaning you can't outgrow Telly. Using standard PC components, you can add memory, add a bigger hard drive, or even upgrade to a DVD-RW drive. With Telly, you aren’t locked into an aging hardware platform. Telly can grow with you, leveraging your investment in managing digital media. In addition, software updates are easy to install and, because Telly is an open system, it has a complete development kit available for interested 3rd-party software developers.t.