Meet the 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 personal video recorder (PVR), according to Malata North America chief executive officer Henry Jung. Two models of the DIVA personal video recorder can be on display within the Microsoft booth, the place the corporate can even hold a demonstration and press conference in the Microsoft Theater



The DIVA is the first DVD/CD recorder to use Windows Media Video 9 to file over the air television programming directly on CD or DVD media. Taking advantage of WMV9's skill to deliver nearly three times the video storage of MPEG2 (and twice as much as MPEG4), the DIVA gives customers the flexibility to document greater than 11 hours of television programming onto a DVD (or practically hours on a CD).



DIVA Uniquely Combines Best of PVR and Digital Media Playback Capabilities



DIVA is an acronym: D -- DVD Player I -- Internet Broadband Streaming Machine, V -- Video Recorder (PVR), and A -- Audio/Video Playback of Digital Content on a Commonplace TV, together with dwelling motion pictures made on a digital video digicam and edited using Windows Media Video.



In contrast to other dvd players recorders, the DIVA can report greater than 70 hours of WMA music per DVD. The DIVA also can serve as a broadband Web browser capable of "stream" Internet-based movies and music from a broadband Internet connection. And for dwelling video buffs, the DIVA permits them to record their CDs of home films using Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP and play them again straight on the DIVA with no time-consuming conversions to MPEG2. The DIVA is also the first DVD recorder to support HighMAT for audio, image and video, allowing easy access and navigation of customized CDs made on a PC of pictures, music, and video with the clicking of a remote control.



"Microsoft is excited to support the launch of DIVA, the primary DVD/CD video recorder machine to help Home windows Media Video," mentioned Dave Fester, general supervisor of the Home windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft Corp. "The DIVA provides extra performance for thousands and thousands of Windows users by being the first device to support HighMAT video as well as the first to play again digital house movies created by Windows Movie Maker 2."



The DIVA combines the best of digital PVR capabilities for recording, storing and (in contrast to most PVRs) transferring content -- with full media gateway capabilities -- plus an additional inside DVD player, all for as little as $299 (DVD CD/R model). The upper-finish DIVA-2 includes a full-blown DVD-R plus a separate DVD player and can sell for a street price of $449 (which is competitive to standalone DVD-R components). The DIVA-1 and DIVA-2 are the primary units to help the video capabilities of HighMAT and in addition support playback of home motion pictures created with Windows Film Maker 2.



Along with the DIVA's recording format flexibility, users can even stream WMA music and Home windows Media Video instantly from the Web, utilizing the DIVA's constructed-in Ethernet connection, which is DSL/cable modem ready for prime-velocity Web surfing on a standard television.



"We believe the quality and improvements in storage capacity offered by Windows Media Video 9 will make it one of the main formats for digital video in the near future," said Jung. "It's simply higher high quality, in a smaller dimension, extra flexible and more robust than older codecs like MPEG2 or MPEG4. The DIVA is the first PVR to maximise these efficiencies, yet it is also appropriate for playback and with MPEG, JPEG, VCD and a number of different formats."



Finally, the DIVA is a perfect shopper electronic companion to digital media fans who use a PC today. Jung noted the ease with which the DIVA plays digital movies created with Microsoft Home windows Film Maker 2 in Home windows XP. "Previous to the DIVA, it was an arduous process to burn these digital information to the MPEG2 format that would then be played on a television set, large-display screen or otherwise. With the DIVA and its direct help for WMV9, it is automated -- save the file to disc, put it in the DIVA and press Play."



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



The DIVA-1 unit accommodates every thing noted above, however with a CD-RW drive instead of a DV-RW drive. The CD-RW drive is configured to play all digital video codecs and report television reveals to disc, but at one-sixth the capability per disc. The DIVA-1 retails for $399 and is anticipated to sell at a street value of $299.



The DIVA-2 unit, which is the gold customary, provides full-fledged DVD-RW capability to the DIVA package. Along with recording over 11 hours of tv or 70 hours of digital audio per DVD, the unit may even document 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 avenue price of $449.



Both units were developed in association with Aeon Digital, which developed the navigation-based mostly working system software program and holds the content material development rights for the device. Aeon Digital, based mostly in Hollywood, CA, is at the technological forefront of delivering VOD content using the Internet.