Pulse-Eight

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Pulse-Eight Limited
Founded 2010
Headquarters Peterborough, United Kingdom
Products Set-top boxes, Remote controls, Computer hardware and Peripherals
Website www.pulse-eight.com

Pulse-Eight Limited (Pulse-Eight) is a hardware designer and manufacturer based in the United Kingdom producing consumer electronics for the home entertainment, as well as for hotel industry and system integration.[1] Pulse-Eight sells both custom and commercial off-the-shelf hardware solutions primarily designed for XBMC Media Center software, such as remote controls, HTPC systems and accessories.[2][3] On 22 October 2012, it was reported that Pulse-Eight have bought the TVonics brand and the technology behind TVonics DVRs from TVonics Solutions Limited who had collapsed into administration in June 2012, and announced a plan to create a next-generation of TVonics set-top box based on the popular open source media player software, XBMC, running on top of Android.[4][5]

Hardware products

Pulse-Eight's major product line is a remote control, dubbed "Nyxboard Hybrid", made by Motorola designed for use within XBMC[6][7] and other Media Center software packages, a custom HTPC set-top-box pre-installed with XBMC that they call "PulseBox",[8][9] and a USB and HDMI CEC Adapter designed in-house[10][11][12] with additional smaller lines utilising components from ZOTAC.

Software products

Pulse-Eight also offers a performance tuned free and open source embedded operating system that they call "PulseOS" designed to run on their PulseBox hardware platform, and is based on OpenELEC which is meant to be used on your dedicated HTPC system. PulseOS does just like OpenELEC provide a complete media center software suite that comes with a pre-configured version of XBMC and optimized third-party addons[13] In addition Pulse-Eight offers free performance tuned embedded versions of XBMC that they call their "Pulse" package which is also based on OpenELEC that can be installed on any HTPC hardware, and not just their PulseBox[14][15][16][17]

Relationship with XBMC

Pulse-Eight was founded by a few members of the XBMC Media Center staff with the intention of donating a portion of sales to the XBMC Foundation.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Contact Us, Pulse-Eight
  2. ↑ Engadget - Motorola NYXboard surfaces from the dead, XBMC reclaims it (update)
  3. ↑ Tested - Motorola Made XBMC Remote Now Available for Presale
  4. ↑ http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/22/pulse_eight_acquires_tvonics_brand_for_xbmc_box/ XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
  5. ↑ http://www.reghardware.com/2012/06/27/administrator_looking_to_sell_off_tvonics_kit/ Administrator eyes DVR firesale after TVonics collapse
  6. ↑ Engadget - Motorola NYXboard surfaces from the dead, XBMC reclaims it (update)
  7. ↑ Tested - Motorola Made XBMC Remote Now Available for Presale
  8. ↑ PulseBox out 10 October
  9. ↑ PulseBox - XBMC based Home Theatre PC Home Theatre Redefined
  10. ↑ http://www.anandtech.com/show/5463/pulseeight-usb-cec-adapter-review Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter Review
  11. ↑ The USB-CEC Adapter is a look into the Future
  12. ↑ USB – CEC Adaptor, 2011/08/20
  13. ↑ PulseOS v1.1.1 now available
  14. ↑ Pulse-Eight Packages
  15. ↑ Pulse by Pulse-Eight
  16. ↑ Pulse-Eight Blog
  17. ↑ Pulse-Eight Public Code Repositories on GitHub
  18. ↑ The USB-CEC Adapter is a look into the Future

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