Bang & Olufsen and Motama announce long-term cooperation

Bang & Olufsen is known as one of the word leaders in high-end products, such as music systems, loudspeakers, televisions, home theater solutions, and telephones. In particular, the Danish company has a long tradition of providing one of the finest and most complete home entertainment experiences for users, combined with new and innovative features.

After an extensive review of the market, Bang & Olufsen has now chosen Motama as its competence partner to provide key software technology for its future products for digital home networks. With its Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM), Motama offers a unique and powerful approach to digital media networking that provides the innovative features and high quality required for Bang & Olufsen's distinctive high-end consumer products.

The NMM technology enables full control and seamless networking across any number of media devices distributed within the home network and beyond. With NMM, existing devices can be combined to form new 'virtual' devices, where media streams received by one device can be presented simultaneously and fully synchronized on any other device or group of devices within the network.

Motama GmbH

Motama is specialized in designing and developing distributed and networked multimedia

Motama is specialized in designing and developing distributed and networked multimedia

http://www.motama.com/index.php?id=press&n=13

 

 

this sounds very promising!

Thanks for posting this press release.  I read Motama's website and other news using Google.  This is essentially how B&O is going to support iTunes, the Mac platform, remote video, iPhones, remote cameras and much more.  This should answer the question of how B&O is going to go beyond the Beomedia 1 and other digital media.  It will certainly generate a lot of discussion and many more questions.

I should add for discussion that two way devices are possible with this technology.  I will make a radical prediction that B&O has plans for a two way Beo 5 or something like it as in a new generation Beolink 7000. 

Sounds interessting! At least the products of motama work on a lot of platforms, so hopefully no compatibility issues or so for Mac users