Jonathan Epstein, president of Omek Interactive, talks about what this technology will mean to Chinese gamers as well as the impact this middleware technology will have on gaming in the U.S. in this exclusive interview.

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Today, the TV you watch and interact with is a sophisticated ecosystem made up of a melange of technology including middleware, meta data, content discovery and content rights management technology that converges in your set top box, which in itself is a smarter piece of hardware than your TV.

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While peer-to-peer sharing certainly gets its fair share of critics, the sharing, caring approach to distributing media definitely has its useful (and legal) benefits, and now NDS has announced "two new product enhancements of Synamedia Metro, the NDS IPTV middleware solution, " which looks to bring P2P technology to the DVR.

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"Between Sun, AOL, and Netscape, we have a broad base of great technology and products, and we are working to integratethem into one middleware suite, " said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java Software Division, in a press conference followingthe NetDynamics announcement.

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Klein hopes to kick-start the trend today with the biggest technology release in the company's history, including new versions of its operating system, middleware and development suite.

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