Benefits of HANA
- Consumers
- HANA’s focus was to deliver products that would simplify consumers’ lives by eliminating the difficulties associated with connecting and controlling their entertainment devices. Consumers should be able to:
- View, pause and record more than five HD channels simultaneously with full quality of service (QoS)
- Share personal content between the IT and AV networks while protecting commercial HD content from piracy
- Control all AV devices and access content with just a single remote per room
- Use just a single cable to connect devices rather than multiple cables between all devices
- Content providers
- By creating a secure home network environment that respects the rights of content owners, multichannel video service providers and broadcasters, HANA can give consumers flexible and convenient access to more high-value HD content. In particular, the incorporation of digital rights management (DRM) and watermark verification of copyrighted content in the HANA architecture are key to ensuring that HD content can flow seamlessly across a wide range of consumer devices.
- Service providers
- HANA enables new market opportunities for service providers. By providing a secure content protection zone for HD content, HANA would allow service providers to take advantage of the retail channel sooner while reducing capital expenditures and providing simple and reliable access to AV entertainment for their customers.
- Consumer electronics manufacturers
- CE manufacturers would be able to deliver new and exciting products and features to their consumers, while simultaneously simplifying the user experience. Just as importantly, a product that rolls out today would not become obsolete every time something new is introduced. New products are required to adhere to the baseline standard guaranteeing interoperability with existing products.
- Information technology
- HANA would enable consumers to move their personal content from the Internet and their PCs to their CE devices around the home. By developing a standards-based secure environment for the distribution of content, HANA sought to help improve the consumer experience, expand the community of network media devices and create new market opportunities.
Read more about this topic: High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance
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