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posted by Editor on Wednesday October 13, @08:49PM
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Home media centers and handheld video/music players are some of the devices being highlighted at the Digital Lifestyle Expo in New York this week. Archos is showing their Pocket Video Recorder, a Linux-based device that can be plugged into any TV or VCR and lets users carry around and view all their TV shows, videos, music, photos and data files. IRiver is showing digital music players that are optimized for Digital Rights Management (DRM) capabilities such as Microsoft’s "Plays For Sure".
HP is showing its z540 Digital Entertainment Center, a home media center based on Windows XP Media Center. It features dual tuners and remote devices that can be scattered throughout a home to stream video over a WiFi network. Pinnacle MediaCenter turns a regular PC or laptop into a media center. 8x8 is showing its broadband video phone. Although video phones have been around since 1964, they have never really taken off. Now, 8x8 claims that its service-based approach overcomes past barriers related to quality, cost, ease of use, and bandwidth.
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Other highlights include Lexar’s JumpDrive TouchGard, a bio-metric USB device that works just like a jump drive, but has a built-in fingerprint scanner that automatically decrypts files and enters passwords to web sites. Kodak was first to develop the digital camera in 1976, but watched others run away with the market. Now, it is trying to break back in with its EasyShare image management architecture. NVidia demonstrated eye-popping 3D graphics on its GeForce 6 adapters which can model human hair flowing smoothly in real time. Although NVidia primarily targets consumer and professional desktops, it is also working with Motorola to build its graphics into mobile phones. Finally, DivX showed its video compression technology, revealing that its chip is built into a variety of consumer electronic devices from many major electronics manufacturers, including Sony, JVC, and Philips. The chip enables regular DVD players to play discs that were created on PCs with DivX content, and implements a variety of rights-management functions.
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