Discover HighMAT!
 HighMAT enables an
exciting new generation of consumer electronics devices which can work seamlessly with digital media content created on a PC. This innovative new patent pending technology is co-developed
and supported by Microsoft Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic).
HighMAT stands for High Performance Media Access Technology. This technology makes it easy to save personal digital music, video and photo collections created on your PC to recordable discs
such as CD/RW media. More importantly, HighMAT ensures that consumers can easily play back that content on consumer electronics devices such as car stereos, DVD players, and CD players.
The consumer challenge today
Every day, millions of people use their computers to create personal collections of digital music, photos, and videos by burning them on to CDs. But when you try to play these homemade CDs
on most DVD and CD players, your experience can often be unpredictable.
Even if your DVD player claims to support digital music and photo formats like MP3, WMA, or JPG, many times you can't easily find and play what you want. In many DVD players, your custom-mix
CD is unrecognizable because the song names are cut short, and you can't organize your music by artist or genre like you can on your computer. Your folders of photos may be impossible to decipher,
or you may be unable to see them because they are too large for your DVD player. Suddenly, you've lost the value of your personal CD.
The HighMAT solution
HighMAT solves these problems by creating a standardized way for computers to structure digital media on CDs, and for consumer devices to read these discs. And then makes it easy for you to
navigate your content with a remote control with easy read menus.
With HighMAT, you can quickly and easily create custom collections of your digital music, photos, and videos on a Microsoft® Windows® XP computer, and then play them on your DVD player,
CD player, or car stereo. This new technology offers a simpler, better way for computer software and consumer electronics devices to communicate with each other.
HighMAT CD-writing capabilities in Windows XP and other software products make creating HighMAT CDs as easy as any other homemade CDs. But when you play your new CDs on a HighMAT DVD player,
you'll experience the following benefits:
- Faster and easier navigation
A simple menu makes it easy to select the music, photos, or videos you want with a single click of your DVD player's remote control.
- Quicker access to CD content
Now you can review your CD contents, including playlists, folder names, titles, and other important information, directly on the TV screen. See full song names, artist names, album titles,
and music genre.
- More consistent, high-quality media playback
No more hit-or-miss experiences when you play your homemade CDs. With HighMAT technology, you can consistently find and play the content you want on a broad range of DVD players, home theater
systems, and other media devices available today.
HighMAT Benefits for Makers of Consumer Electronics and Software
As the consumer's appetite for recording and accessing digital media increases, so does the necessity for transparent interoperability between the different formats and devices. HighMAT offers
consumers a convenient, easy-to-use, standardized approach to creating custom collections of digital media and playing them back - whether it's on a DVD player, CD player or car stereo.
- For software publishers, HighMAT can be easily incorporated into any CD-burning and DVD-burning software, and in digital media applications, including digital music jukebox software and
home video-editing applications. This technology offers a valuable new feature for your customer's translation of digital media content optimized for use on a home entertainment device to
ensure easy enjoyment and smooth playback.
- For the consumer electronics industry, HighMAT technology offers a low-cost, easy-to-implement technology to make your devices more attractive to the millions of consumers around the world who
have embraced digital music, photography, and digital video.
Start using HighMAT today
In order to get the full benefits of HighMAT, you'll need to create your CDs using CD-writing software, a digital media player, or video-editing software that supports HighMAT. Every Windows
XP user can get HighMAT CD-writing support through the new HighMAT Extension for Windows XP CD-Writing Wizard, Windows Media Player 9 Series, and Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2.
To learn more about HighMAT, visit these links at HighMAT.com:
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