Malata North America is debuting a revolutionary new client hardware platform that’s destined to redefine the digital personal video recorder (PVR), according to Malata North America chief executive officer Henry Jung. Two models of the DIVA private video recorder will most likely be on show in the Microsoft sales space, where the corporate may possibly even hold an illustration and press conference within the Microsoft Theater

The DIVA is the primary DVD/CD recorder to use Windows Media Video 9 to record over the air tv programming straight on CD or DVD media. Profiting from WMV9′s capability to ship nearly three times the video storage of MPEG2 (and twice as a lot as MPEG4), the DIVA affords buyers the capability to file more than 11 hours of television programming onto a DVD (or virtually hours on a CD).

DIVA Uniquely Combines Best of PVR and Digital Media Playback Capabilities

DIVA is an acronym: D — DVD Player I — Web Broadband Streaming Device, V — Video Recorder (PVR), and A — Audio/Video Playback of Digital Content material on a Regular Television, including property motion pictures produced on a digital video digicam and edited using Windows Media Video.

Not like different dvd players recorders, the DIVA can document greater than 70 hours of WMA music per DVD. The DIVA can also function a broadband Web browser capable of “stream” Internet-based mostly motion pictures and music from a broadband Web connection. And for residence video buffs, the DIVA permits them to report their CDs of house motion photos using Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP and play them once again directly on the DIVA with no time-consuming conversions to MPEG2. The DIVA is also the primary DVD recorder to aid HighMAT for audio, picture and video, permitting straightforward accessibility and navigation of customized CDs made on a PC of photos, music, and video with the click of a remote control.

“Microsoft is happy to support the launch of DIVA, the primary DVD/CD video recorder machine to assist Home windows Media Video,” stated Dave Fester, typical manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft Corp. “The DIVA presents further performance for thousands and thousands of Windows clients by becoming the very first method to support HighMAT video in addition to the primary to play again digital property movies produced by Home windows Film Maker 2.”

The DIVA combines the finest of digital PVR capabilities for recording, storing and (not like most PVRs) transferring content material — with full media gateway capabilities — plus an extra inner DVD participant, all for as small as 9 (DVD CD/R version). The upper-end DIVA-2 features a full-blown DVD-R plus a separate DVD player and will promote for a street price of 9 (which is aggressive to standalone DVD-R elements). The DIVA-1 and DIVA-2 are the very first units to assist the video capabilities of HighMAT and likewise support playback of residence movies developed with Residence windows Film Maker 2.

Along with the DIVA’s recording format flexibility, clients can even stream WMA music and House windows Media Video straight from the Internet, making use of the DIVA’s built-in Ethernet connection, which is DSL/cable modem ready for top-pace Web surfing on a typical television.

“We think about the good quality and enhancements in storage capability supplied by Property windows Media Video 9 will make it one of the leading formats for digital video within the near future,” stated Jung. “It’s basically much better high high quality, in a smaller measurement, additional flexible and far more sturdy than older codecs like MPEG2 or MPEG4. The DIVA is the primary PVR to maximise these efficiencies, yet it is also compatible for playback and with MPEG, JPEG, VCD and a number of other formats.”

Finally, the DIVA is a best consumer digital companion to digital media followers who use a PC these days. Jung noted the convenience with which the DIVA plays digital films created with Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP. “Prior to the DIVA, it was an arduous course of to burn these digital info to the MPEG2 format that may well then be played on a tv set, large-screen or otherwise. With the DIVA and its direct support for WMV9, it’s automatic — save the file to disc, put it in the DIVA and press Play.”

DIVA-1 Contains DVD and CD-R for 9, DIVA-2 Contains DVD and DVD-R for 9.

The DIVA-1 unit comprises the entire lot noted above, nevertheless with a CD-RW drive instead of a DV-RW drive. The CD-RW drive is configured to play all digital video codecs and record tv reveals to disc, but at one-sixth the capability per disc. The DIVA-1 retails for 9 and is predicted to sell at a avenue worth of 9.

The DIVA-2 unit, which is the gold commonplace, gives full-fledged DVD-RW capability to the DIVA package. Along with recording over 11 hours of television or 70 hours of digital audio per DVD, the unit can even record much less-costly CD format discs for when a smaller recording footprint is required. The DIVA-2 retails for 9 and is expected to sell at a street value of 9.

Both units had been developed in affiliation with Aeon Digital, which developed the navigation-primarily based operating program software program and holds the content growth rights for the device. Aeon Digital, based in Hollywood, CA, is on the technological forefront of delivering VOD content employing the Net.

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