XStreamHD licenses audio processing from ARC, resumes radio silence

by Steven Kim, posted Oct 5th 2008 at 11:43PM

When we last heard from XStreamHD, the company had grand plans on streaming movies via satellite to some boxes with great looking specs, Michael Douglas and a non-functional CES booth that failed to impress. Now we see that the company has licensed ARC audio processing for Dolby Digital Plus decoding, which presumably would come in handy -- if there were any content to decode. To be fair, there's still time for XStreamHD to meet its long-ago promised Q4 2008 release, but absent any of the "latest content from leading studios" the only audio that will get decoded is the sound of one hand clapping.

Filed under: Industry, Media streamers, Other hardware, Set-top boxes, Satellite

Tags: ARC, dolby digital plus, DolbyDigitalPlus, license, xstreamhd

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Joe T. @ Oct 6th 2008 1:37PM

Of all the vaporware that just floats on by, this is the one piece of tech that I really hope makes it. Specs and price look awesome.

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