Powerline uses industry-standard HomePlug AV technology to turn any home wall socket into a network connection.

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HomePlug AV has been the powerline technology of choice, and AV2 provides an aggressive migration path to support greater network capacity and distribution of ultra-high quality content throughout the home.

ENGADGET: HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec

The workshop (13-14 December 2004) aimed to give participants an overview and degree of familiarity about the digital frontier, orient participants on techniques, issues and technology for digitizing and increasing access of their AV materials, and provide a venue to define or describe issues, obstacles and alternatives regarding digitization in the Asian context.

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Musion said it licenses its technology to around 30 companies around the world, including AV Concepts.

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S1 uses infrared technology and works as universal remote controls for a variety of AV devices starting with .

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"With more than 50 DLNA Certified AV systems, it is clear ONKYO realizes the significance of including the technology into our products to create ease and convenience for consumers, " said Nobuaki Okuda, CTO, Onkyo Corporation.

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These providers require a migration path to a much higher performance powerline technology to meet future bandwidth demands while maintaining interoperability with their current HomePlug AV installations and future IEEE1901 products.

ENGADGET: HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec

Let's face it -- HomePlug AV has had a pretty rough go of it, and while we wouldn't consider the technology dead just yet, we can't imagine it ever rising to prominence at this point.

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