Digital media adapters, which will allow users to share music, images, and video files stored on their PCs with consumer-electronic devices such as TVs and stereos, are set to hit the market from several leading hardware vendors in 2003, said Louis Burns, vice president and co-general manager of Intel's Desktop Platforms Group, speaking to hardware makers at the Intel Developer Forum here.
Companies that are set to launch digital media adapters next year include Dell Computer, Legend Group, Mitac International, and Gateway, Burns said. The adapters will use Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology to connect PCs with consumer-electronic devices.
"Those platforms will come out in a variety of flavors," Burns said. Low-end models will connect over wired Ethernet networks while more sophisticated models will incorporate wireless networking technologies, such as 802.11b, he said.
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