Catchplay is a re-launch…no. Its a re-brand of VIA’s yet-to-be launched OnDemand P2P gaming and media platform that was presented at Computex last year.

Digitimes reports a one-liner here and sure enough, there’s a new website teaser up.

Architecture and market wise its very similar to Joost (was The Venice project. Run by Niklas Zennstrom of Kazaa, Skype fame.)

Why am I mentioning this on a UMPC blog? Well its all to do with VIA, HTC, a possible UMPC from HTC, a virtual provider network from Microsoft and …oh just read this post. I had a mad theory back in June last year.

Steve.

• VIA to use Catchplay to enhance UMPC s/w platform.
• Microsoft, HTC and mobile networks.
• HTC talks about UMPC at last. A scenario forms.