Sungale, a Chino, Calif.-based consumer electronics company that claims to have had many years of experience as an OEM supplier before taking a more public profile, announced Wednesday that it will launch a new over-the-top-TV device, dubbed the Kula IPTV, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month (note: the company's booth will be located at South Hall 1 #20953). According to the company, the Kula is an ultra-portable, WiFi-enabled device that incorporates a 4.3-inch full-color LCD screen and that will allow users to access a large number of live streaming TV programs from all over the world, selectable by country, language and topic (e.g. News, Sports, Finance, etc.), "all without the high rates."
Sungale says that it will offer the device with three, customizable channel packages: the Basic, the Kid and the Grand. The Basic and Kid packages will provide customers with around 100 channels free of charge, the company promises, and customers will have the option of paying an undisclosed amount to upgrade to the 500-channel Grand package. "These channel packages will allow users to choose their IPTV channels based on their preferences as well as parental controls," Sungale president and CEO, Ningjun Sun, said in a prepared statement.
Other features claimed by Sungale for the new device include 2GB of memory, that can be expanded to 16GB via an SD/MMC card slot (thus, the company says, allowing users to watch stored video clips, listen to music and view photos on the go), and support for a range of video (AVI, MPEG-4, DIVX, XVID, RM/RMVB, DAT, WMV, 3GP, FLV), audio (WMA, MP3M WAV, AAC, OGG) and photo (JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG) file formats
