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Plus the car is going to become a mobile hotspot pretty soon…' You'll buy a new album and it will automatically sync with your car.

'We're going to see the car become a media server, and also see it sync with your home network. 'We're doing a lot of work in the connected car, which I think is really on the horizon now,' says Schwartz. We're trying to insert ourself into that spot,' he says.īut PacketVideo is thinking beyond the living room with Twonky. 'It's great to discover video on mobile devices, but there's not been an easy way to beam that content to your big screen. He summarises Twonky's intended appeal thus: smartphones are very good for discovering content, but they're not always the best device to actually watch or listen to it – especially if there's a TV in the room that's connected to the home wireless network. 'A lot of people are running the app on their smartphones, and then they'll go to a friend's house, and if they have a PlayStation 3 console, a Samsung smart TV or an Apple TV, for example, they can access all the content on their device in a very seamless way.'

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'The big feature we've added to Twonky Beam is our DLNA-certified media server, which is very popular,' says Rick Schwartz, director of connected home software at PacketVideo.

It's since been joined by Twonky Video, which aggregates web videos to beam to a bigger screen, and Twonky Beam, which works with audio and photos as well as videos. They started with Twonky Mobile, a smartphone app for finding media on your home network and then beaming it to a TV or DLNA / AirPlay-compatible TV.

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