Valups Corporation is a company based in

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which makes products for watching

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About the company

Valups was spun off from iCube Corporation in 2008, and as such has the right to use that company's

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in developing

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products, including home convergence. Valups has continued a relationship with icube. Its major area of business is the

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, which allows

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(VOD) to be added to traditional cable or satellite. Using Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology, files can be shared between various devices, including TV, set-top box,

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and PVR.

Tivit

The Valups T1000 is a device capable of receiving

signals through

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, using

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to transmit to

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s. Another method is to use a

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and watch TV on a

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. The advanced version, called the Tivit, received the Best of CES award at the January 2010

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. The Tivit works with the

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and 3GS, third-generation

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and

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. It may be battery-operated for three hours on a

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or left plugged in. Before becoming available in the

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, the Tivit was introduced in

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, and an iPhone app was developed. Axel Technologies software made the device compatible with the European

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standard.

iCube Corporation

iCube Corporation, based in Seoul, Korea, started in 1995 and manufactures digital media adapters and other entertainment products. The company's products have applications based on combining

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with

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and P2P. Play@TV, which allows people to watch files stored on a computer on their TVs wirelessly. won the

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

IPCP DMA award for 2003. SlideMill creates videos and

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s from photo files. PhotoMill allows editing and processing of photos. iRec is an iPod video recorder. LetzDV won a multimedia award in 2001. Japan operations began in 2002, and iCube America Co. Ltd. was established in 2004.

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