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DivX, Inc. and Jaman.com now have an agreement to add video titles from the Jaman.com library to the DivX Connected platform. The latter provides consumers with easily accessible, high-quality digital media content through various consumer electronic appliances. Jaman.com's titles include thousands of foreign, indie, short, and documentary films. The two companies will cooperate to make the selections in the Jaman.com library available to users of DivX Connected devices. The first DivX Connected devices available to consumers from D-Link are presently available for sale online in the United Kingdom, France and Germany—the U.S. release is expected later this year.
Entropic Communications, Inc. [NASDAQ@:ENTR] is involved in a joint demonstration with Oxford Semiconductor at CES 2008 to showcase a HANA (High Definition Audio Video Network Alliance) over MoCA (Multimedia Over Coax Alliance) entertainment network. This is the first demonstration leveraging a MoCA PHY in HANA enabled devices. The demo, at HANA's CES booth Suites N119-N120, North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, uses Oxford Semiconductor's Silicon Systems for HANA Bridging combined with Entropic's MoCA-capable Ethernet to coaxial bridges to create a data path leveraging both 1394 and MoCA. At CES, the companies will demonstrate media content playback using a HANA enabled DVR and television display. A MoCA 1.1 enabled network provides up to 175 Mbps bandwidth allowing five or more HANA enabled devices to stream HD video content. Entropic's c.LINK home networking products are compliant with the MoCA standard and enable the creation of a whole home entertainment network for multiple streams of HD video and other digital entertainment over the existing coax infrastructure. Oxford Semiconductor provides a complete portfolio of storage and connectivity products that enable electronic devices to exchange or back-up data and share resources.
Also announced by Entropic Communications, Inc., is that their underwriters of their initial public offering of 8M shares of common stock have exercised, in full, their over-allotment option. The underwriters have purchased an additional 1.2M shares of certain stock from certain selling stockholders. Including the over-allotment shares purchased, the offering totaled 9.2M shares of common stock at the public offering price of US$.600 per share (before underwriting discounts and commissions.) Credit Suisse Securities (USA) and Lehman Brothers were the Joint Bookrunning Managers for the offering with Thomas Weisel Partners LLC, JMP Securities LLC and ThinkEquity Partners LLC serving as co-managers—San Diego, California
Gateway debuted two new FX Series desktop computers designed for extreme gaming and other, high-performance, graphics-intensive multimedia apps. The FX7020 is a value-based gaming system that includes NVIDIA SLI technology for super-rich graphics. The system features AMD quad-core power and DirectX 10 graphics and has a price point of $1,099. Here are the systems specs:
- AMD Phenom™ 9600 Processor (AMD LIVE!™) (operates at 2.3GHz; 2MB L3 cache; 3600MHz system bus)
- Windows Vista® Home Premium
- NVIDIA®GeForce®6150SE chipset
- NVIDIA® GeForce®8800GT (w/512MB on board memory)
- 3072MB DDR2 memory, dual channel
- 500GB SATA II (7200RPM, 16MB Cache)(2)
- 18x DVD±R/RW SuperMulti Drive featuring Labelflash™ technology
- High-performance 15-in-1 digital media card reader with Smart Copy button and integrated IR receiver
- 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 front; 4 rear)
- 8-Channel (7.1) high-definition audio
- Amplified stereo speakers (USB powered)
- Elite multimedia keyboard
- USB optical 2-button wheel mouse
- Analog/digital TV tuner w/ 3-D combo (PCIe)
- Gateway Portable Media Drive Bay
The Gateway FX540 Series is the nexgen of the company's flagship desktop line and is ideal for extreme gaming, digital content creation and multitasking.
- NVIDIA SLI-capable motherboard
- dual PCIe x16 slots with SLI support
- ability to run dual NVIDIA 8800 GT/GTX factory limited warranted
over-clocked video cards in SLI mode for the maximum performance
- support for 800MHz memory standard on select systems
- dual Gigabit Ethernet for maximum online gaming performance
As an SLI-Ready PC, the FX540’s NVIDIA nForce SLI motherboard and SLI-Ready graphics card give it the ability to be upgraded with a second graphics card. The Gateway FX540 Series includes a 700 watt power supply, ensuring it can support any additional high-performance hardware or future expansion requirements—Irvine, California
Harmonic Inc. has a new agreement with Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) for the deployment of the former's DiviCom MV 500 high definition and MV 100 standard definition encoders as well as for DiviTrack statistical multiplexing for its MPEG-2 satellite program distribution. The system replaces TBN's analog satellite carrier architecture with a digital multiple channels per carrier (MCPC) system that includes one HD and six SD channels with redundancy. The video delivery network is managed by Harmonic's NMX Digital Service Manager. The important aspect is that Harmonic is able to support TBN's content requirements for a compression solution that's compatible with a wide range of DVB receivers throughout the world as well as with cable operator networks in the U.S. and other countries. TBN serves more than 12,500 TV and cable affiliates around the world via 54 satellites—Sunnyvale, California
Linear Acoustic is shipping its nexgen AEROMAX 5.1 10-channel TV audio processor, which features a loudness controller, upmixer, and metadata manager. The processor accepts 5.1 network audio, two-channel local audio, and digital or analog auxiliary/EAS stereo audio. Optional HD-SDI audio and metadata input and internal Dolby Digital (AC-3) or Coding Technologies aacPlus (MPEG-4 HE AAC) encoding are also available. The AEROMAX-5.1 is based on the success of the Linear Acoustic OCTiMAX 5.1 digital television audio processor and combines network-proven dynamics processing algorithms designed by Leif Claesson with upMAX surround sound upmixing, and extensive local features such as a full-time two-channel downmix to feed legacy analog paths. The system's built-in AutoMAX processing fixes two-channel audio that is broadcast wrongly signaled as 5.1 channels. This eliminates the annoying image shift that occurs as dialogue moves from the left and right front speakers to the center speaker when programs transition between two and 5.1 channels. Plus, the AEROMAX-5.1 takes advantage of metadata for the proper processing of audio and to control upmixing and other features offered by the unit. Options such as an HD-SDI video input and internal Dolby Digital (AC-3) or Coding Technologies aacPlus (MPEG-4 HE AAC) 5.1-channel encoding reduce the amount of equipment needed, while the redundant power supply allows smooth and reliable integration into typical transmission environments—Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Talk about multi-tasking! NewTech Infosystems, Inc. latest Media Maker 8 is an all-in-one digital creativity suite that records data, Blu-ray data, audio, photos and video on CD and DVD discs. Media Maker 8 is simple to use on Windows PC and includes a launch pad that ensures ease of navigation. A video converter provides videos for playback on an iPod, PSP, Zune and other portable video players; Video TS split enables the software to be used to create DVDs from the video collection stored on the hard drive on one or more DVDs while maintaining image quality; NTI Photo Maker provides fast import, edit and sharing of digital photos and slideshows; NTI Ripper rips and archives music; and NTI Digital Jack offers playback of music collections. You can also multi-burn using multiple drives to create CDs and DVDs simultaneously.
Other capabilities include TestDrive for testing media as well as optical and hard drives; and to optimize media storage capacity to record videos at a higher resolution, NTI DVD Fit copies just the movie, eliminating the extras; and when you’ve set up your task you can have your computer turn off, hibernate, standby, or log off. Audio Editor personalizes MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG files with features such as audio cross fade for smooth transitions between songs; and NTI Tagger which is an ID3 tag editor to organize music files by name, artist, year, album and more. Music DVD tools offer DVD album covers, artist photos, trivia and song names. Media Maker 8 comes with an MP3 encoder and DVD MPEG-2 encoder/decoder while the Home Video Maker includes a complete movie making and editing suite with DVD authoring—Irvine, California
Samsung Electronics is debuting the Series 7 plasma HDTV line-up. Access to digital media has been expanded, while navigation has been simplified. Samsung’s plasma lineup will be on display at Booth #11033 during the International Consumer Electronics Show held at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 7 through 10. The Series 7 plasma HDTV owes its picture quality to a new software algorithm, which reduces false image contours and enhances moving picture quality. Recognizing that more and more consumers use their HDTV sets as the cornerstone of their home multimedia entertainment centers, the Series 7 enhances its connectivity to provide a new multimedia experience. Consumers can now input, access, and manage more HD devices than ever before directly through the set’s four HDMI 1.3 inputs. Using the side-mounted USB 2.0 port, consumers can play music and photo files for enjoyment through the HDTV. Access to RSS feeds provides users the most recent news, stock price and weather information. Plus, there's the Series 7’s new TOC design (Touch Of Color)—Samsung’s new molding technology creates a clean, smooth finish that is infused with a hint of color during the manufacturing process. The Series 7 Plasma HDTV will be available in April of 2008 in the following sizes: 50-inches, 58-inches and 63-inches—Seoul, Korea
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