Meet the brand new awsome dvd player recorder available on the market

Malata North America is debuting a revolutionary new client hardware platform that's destined to redefine the digital private video recorder (PVR), in response to Malata North America chief government officer Henry Jung. Two models of the DIVA personal video recorder can be on show within the Microsoft booth, the place the corporate may even maintain an indication and press conference in the Microsoft Theater

The DIVA is the first DVD/CD recorder to use Windows Media Video 9 to document over the air tv programming straight on CD or DVD media. Benefiting from WMV9's skill to deliver practically thrice the video storage of MPEG2 (and twice as a lot as MPEG4), the DIVA gives consumers the flexibility to document greater than eleven hours of tv programming onto a DVD (or nearly hours on a CD).

DIVA Uniquely Combines Better of PVR and Digital Media Playback Capabilities

DIVA is an acronym: D -- DVD Player I -- Web Broadband Streaming System, V -- Video Recorder (PVR), and A -- Audio/Video Playback of Digital Content on a Standard TV, together with home movies made on a digital video digicam and edited using Windows Media Video.

In contrast to different dvd players recorders, the DIVA can file greater than 70 hours of WMA music per DVD. The DIVA also can serve as a broadband Internet browser in a position to "stream" Internet-based films and music from a broadband Web connection. And for residence video buffs, the DIVA permits them to record their CDs of home movies utilizing Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP and play them back instantly on the DIVA with no time-consuming conversions to MPEG2. The DIVA is also the primary DVD recorder to assist HighMAT for audio, image and video, allowing easy accessibility and navigation of customized CDs made on a PC of photos, music, and video with the clicking of a remote control.

"Microsoft is happy to assist the launch of DIVA, the primary DVD/CD video recorder device to help Windows Media Video," mentioned Dave Fester, common supervisor of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft Corp. "The DIVA provides extra performance for thousands and thousands of Home windows users by being the first gadget to support HighMAT video in addition to the primary to play back digital dwelling videos created by Windows Movie Maker 2."

The DIVA combines the perfect of digital PVR capabilities for recording, storing and (not like most PVRs) transferring content -- with full media gateway capabilities -- plus a further inside DVD player, all for as little as $299 (DVD CD/R model). The upper-finish DIVA-2 features a full-blown DVD-R plus a separate DVD player and will sell for a road value of $449 (which is competitive to standalone DVD-R elements). The DIVA-1 and DIVA-2 are the primary devices to support the video capabilities of HighMAT and also support playback of dwelling films created with Windows Film Maker 2.

In addition to the DIVA's recording format flexibility, customers can also stream WMA music and Home windows Media Video straight from the Internet, using the DIVA's constructed-in Ethernet connection, which is DSL/cable modem prepared for top-speed Internet surfing on a normal television.

"We imagine the quality and enhancements in storage capacity supplied by Windows Media Video 9 will make it one of many main formats for digital video within the near future," stated Jung. "It's merely better quality, in a smaller dimension, more flexible and extra sturdy than older formats like MPEG2 or MPEG4. The DIVA is the primary PVR to maximize these efficiencies, but it's also appropriate for playback and with MPEG, JPEG, VCD and a number of different formats."

Finally, the DIVA is an ideal shopper digital companion to digital media followers who use a PC today. Jung noted the ease with which the DIVA plays digital motion pictures created with Microsoft Home windows Film Maker 2 in Home windows XP. "Prior to the DIVA, it was an arduous course of to burn these digital information to the MPEG2 format that would then be played on a television set, large-display or otherwise. With the DIVA and its direct help for WMV9, it is automatic -- save the file to disc, put it within the DIVA and press Play."

DIVA-1 Includes DVD and CD-R for $299, DIVA-2 Consists of DVD and DVD-R for $449.

The DIVA-1 unit incorporates every thing famous above, but with a CD-RW drive instead of a DV-RW drive. The CD-RW drive is configured to play all digital video formats and record television shows to disc, but at one-sixth the capacity per disc. The DIVA-1 retails for $399 and is expected to sell at a road worth of $299.

The DIVA-2 unit, which is the gold customary, adds full-fledged DVD-RW capability to the DIVA package. In addition to recording over 11 hours of tv or 70 hours of digital audio per DVD, the unit can even document much less-costly CD format discs for when a smaller recording footprint is required. The DIVA-2 retails for $599 and is expected to promote at a street price of $449.

Each gadgets had been developed in association with Aeon Digital, which developed the navigation-based working system software program and holds the content material improvement rights for the device. Aeon Digital, based mostly in Hollywood, CA, is on the technological forefront of delivering VOD content material utilizing the Internet.