America Online has formed an alliance with D-Link to offer entertainment options for the digital home. The companies are collaborating to develop and deliver products and services that will allow broadband consumers to access secure, high-quality video, music and photo content, on-demand, from any room in the home.
In the first step, a new line of D-Link Wireless Media Players will enable AOL users to listen to over 175 CD-quality Radio@AOL stations on any TV or stereo in the home. D-Link and AOL are also working together to extend AOL’s popular You’ve Got Pictures in the same way, allowing AOL for Broadband members to view their personal photos and slideshows, and exclusive photos from AOL’s various photo galleries by using the AOL You’ve Got Pictures service on any TV in the home.
AOL is leveraging open standard technologies, such as SOAP/XML and the Liberty Alliance specifications, to allow third-party applications to easily access and interact with AOL’s online services. http://www.dlink.com
