What business opportunities does DLNA provide to the industry?
The value proposition to manufacturers and content providers is to ensure that all devices designed around DLNA guidelines communicate, which opens up new ways to differentiate and expand existing product categories. The value of the digital living vision is its ability to provide consumers with a wide range of compelling uses and experiences. This requires the availability of a broad spectrum of products across many categories. These products range from intelligent source devices such as advanced digital set-top boxes, PCs and access platforms (i.e., residential gateways), as well as simple sink and source devices that provide media acquisition, recording, playback, rendering, storage, sourcing capabilities and content protection. Some examples of these devices include PDAs, notebook PCs, broadcast tuners, networked storage units, CD/DVD players and recorders, TV monitors, stereos, multimedia mobile phones, home theaters, wireless monitors and game consoles as well as other video, aud
