lol..I see you corrected "adjective"...
English class puts me into a daydream...
"Anandpura continued, “We are expanding the feature set and capabilities of our increasingly successful video/audio technology platform. We believe the expansion of our platform, coupled with its outstanding picture and audio quality, long battery life, proprietary hardware encryption, and ease of use, offers business customers the best solution for their open and closed system video/audio products.”
being "proprietary" I would think that an explanation is non of our business at this time. I have proprietary parts (a noun) I make and it ain't no ones business how I do it.... :o)
I would understand it as being a "hardware device" and nothing else.
doni should be able to explain it better than anyone.
Outta here for a bit.