Telecoms: Italy

Branded CuboVision, Telecom Italia started today selling its brand new multimedia box that integrates a digital TV receiver and an HD multimedia player including 500 Gbyte of storage.

The box has an attractive ‘cube‘ design and it is being sold at a retail price of €199.The box has been co-designed by Telecom Italia and it includes severeal interesting features:

1. DVT-T based terrestrial TV reception. Italy is currently migrating to analog TV broadcasts to digital TV.  In some part of the country analog TV has already been switched off. The transition will be completed nation-wide by 2012.
2. Internet gateway.  The box connects to Internet through either the integrated Ethernet or ir WI-FI interfaces.
3. Storage. 500 Mbyte for storing multimedia contente
4. Smart features. The box can be fully personalized by the user, for instance overimposing  several ‘widgets‘ to display any Internet content like latest news, YouTube videos and so on.

A quick summary of the technical specifications  of  CuboVision are available in (easy to read) Italian.