The Telly home entertainment server is range of computer systems designed to store, manage, and access all forms of digital media in the home. Based on Interact-TV's Linux Media Center software, it provides user managed libraries for music, photos, and all forms of video from recorded television programming to DVDs. Expandable hard drive configurations accommodate growing libraries of home entertainment content and provide an alternative to Desktop and Laptop PCs for entertainment content. Networked configurations distribute content shared from all units throughout a network and allow recording at each location. Content on Telly systems appears to both Windows and Mac PCs as local networked volumes and can be accessed over the network. The Telly server web site provides management of and access to music, photos, and video. Telly home entertainment servers use a trackball driven user interface and are offered with full high-definition television (HDTV) outputs, built-in digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities and a variety of other accessories. As a home entertainment server, Telly systems differ from traditional media center systems in that it is designed from inception to be configured and operated from a TV-based menu, and as a true server, permits integrated file sharing and secure volume managed expandable storage.
Key features
Telly Servers are available in a range of models from small set-top sized to rack-mount systems. Each system contains a Linux OS and motherboard and one or more hard drives. All models may additionally have tuners and CD/DVD burners for both import and archiving owners content.
Video functionality Users can watch or save DVDs in a Telly server video library for full resolution, progressive scan DVD playback Facilities are provided for watching live, delayed or recorded TV, home videos and Internet downloaded video, all of which are stored in the Telly Video Library Video Library contents can be viewed and sorted by Cover Art Navigation or In-Depth Program Information Music DVDs (such as recorded concerts) in the Video Library can also be copied as music tracks into the Music Library - this permits mixing tracks from music DVD with tracks from the Music Library. HD Telly systems upsample the native resolution of recorded TV and regular DVDs from 480i to 720p. When users stop any playback of any video, a Resume button is provided to allow any networked Telly server to pick up where it left off Telly home entertainment servers support all common non-DRM video formats including AVI, DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Networking allows users to move media between other Telly systems, PCs or portable media players Video files can be imported to Telly from other PCs on the network Internet video sources such as YouTube can be played on Telly servers
Music functionality Jukebox capabilities play single songs or queue any music collection, genre, artist, or album Sort the Jukebox looking at traditional lists or album cover art and build collections for playback. Created playlists of selected music can be played at any time or burn them on a CD Users can view music animations during playback and interleave music DVD tracks from the Video Library Users can set the music quality when storing CDs with the built-in CD player including the option of Lossless Audio Encoding (a format that maintains the original CD quality and still creates files that are compressed to save disc space) Support is provided for drag and drop music collections from PCs and Macs to Telly server Import Music folder in most popular non-DRM formats including MP3, AAC, and FLAC Telly systems provide a built-in Web Server allowing any computer to access the Music Library to manage tracks or edit album details Telly servers can stream music to any browser Telly systems support internet radio playout
Photo functionality Telly servers scale all photos to fit the connected TV screen and will support full 1080 HDTV resolution for presentation of high quality display of Photo Library contents Telly Photo Library contents can be browsed on the TV screen as thumbnails or as automatic or manually advanced slide shows with predetermined playback or random order playback The built-in web site access provides the ability to create, add to, and edit Photo Library contents
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