Finally, a truly entertaining experience. The 2Wire MediaPortal^® hybrid entertainment solution creates one place to store, stream, and add digital media content.

Broadcast, broadband, and personal content converge into one easy-to-use interface.

• Watch SD or HD television and movies via DVBS and ATSC television signals or the Internet.
• Easily store and listen to digital music through the home entertainment system.
• Upload photos and view them directly on the TV.
• Enjoy the full entertainment experience whether at home or away, using Web Remote Access.

The MediaPortal Hybrid Entertainment Solution is:

• 2Wire Media Software - This software platform enables a fully-converged experience of linear television, Internet video, and local media on the television, all through a unified, telco-branded entertainment experience. A full suite of popular television-based services (including multi-room digital video recording) and broadband media services (including video-on-demand, music management, and photo sharing) are now just a remote click away.
  
• 2Wire Service Management System (SMS) - Streamline backend logistics and operations while enhancing subscriber experience. SMS integrates with your account management and billing systems, as well as content distribution and licensing systems, to deliver efficient subscriber service activation, account creation, authentication, billing, and near-instantaneous content delivery. In addition, SMS can drive additional revenue opportunities with its recommendation engine and content pre-roll, post-roll, and overlay advertising support.
• MediaPortal Digital Media Player - The MediaPortal digital media player is the physical heart of the broadband entertainment solution, with support for SD and HD TV interfaces, wired and wireless network connectivity, internal storage, DVR functionality, and more. 2Wire Media Software is rapidly portable onto any set-top box configuration, so you can choose the hardware that fits your offering, pricing, and deployment schedule.

Hybrid Strategy: Best of Broadcast Meets Best of the Web

2Wire has been a pioneer in developing multi-service media solutions, first introducing MediaPortal in 2004 to bring the best of the airwaves and the best of the Internet directly to the television.

The MediaPortal hybrid entertainment solution supports linear broadcast service from a variety of television signal types in both SD and HD programming formats. Programming guides are fully searchable by title, actor, and genre, so subscribers can quickly and easily find the shows and movies they want to watch. Built-in DVR "trick-play" functions also enable subscribers to pause, rewind, or fast-forward live TV with a click of the remote.

MediaPortal supports a robust selection of broadband media services, including Internet-based video-on-demand. Subscribers can browse, select, and download movies and TV shows, to watch whenever they want, right on their TV sets. MediaPortal also optimizes online streaming video for the TV, making the best content on the Web even better on the TV. A customizable array of Web-based services, from online radio to legal music downloading and even photo-sharing services, keep subscribers riveted to their TV sets and fully engaged with your brand.

Customized For Your Offering

The flexibility of the MediaPortal hybrid entertainment solution allows you to customize exactly the right mix of options to offer your subscribers. Select available Web services, choose which features to integrate from existing content stores, offer multiple receivers for dual room functionality, even specify hard disc capacity for digital video recorders.

Discover. Aggregate. Enjoy.

Blur the line separating personal content and provider content. The MediaPortal platform transforms a traditional set-top box into a digital media player, capable of accessing and playing your subscriber’s existing digital media libraries.

Painless Service Deployments

The tight integration between MediaPortal digital media players and 2Wire SMS allows you to deploy new service offerings to "in-service" devices as they become available. This means that subscribers can take advantage of new services as soon as they're available, without waiting for lengthy confirmation or verification processes. In other words, "see it - click it - get it."