High-end media device maker Niveus Media has announced it'll be rolling HD DVD support into its Viiv-driven Niveus Media Centers.
Niveus Media has announced it will be incorporating high-definition HD DVD technology into its line of Intel Viiv-driven Niveus Media Centers.
“While we may have additional announcements later this year regarding the Blu-Ray disc format, we are ready to announce that product development is well underway to deliver HD-DVD in the award-winning Niveus Media Center by mid-2006″ said Tim Cutting, Niveus’s founder and CEO.
Niveus Media Centers are full media center PCs designed to provide high-end audio and video quality and performance for true media buffs. Various models provide multiple television tuners, 192KHz/24-bit audio, HDTV capabilities, oodles of internal storage for movies, photos, recorded television, and more, sometimes with fanless operation.
Niveus will be demonstrating the Niveus Media Center with HD DVD support at the Electronic House Expo Spring 2006 being held in Orlando, Florida, from March 30to April 1, 2006. Click here to Digg this story!
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RSS1. Officials say the Interactive Layer of BluRay and HD-DVD is not supported in the first release. It's also known from DVD authors in Hollywood that the interactive layer is extremely buggy.
2. Decoders inside the Media Center (Vista Version) are extremely buggy. Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't have any decoders that work inside it for HD-DVD.
3. On top of that the hardware to support the Interactive Layer, along with the streaming audio layer will change over the next year as more and more bugs are found.
4. Hollywood Studios along with Dolby have yet to do major testing on disc's they've created with for enhanced features such as 7.1 digital audio out, and streaming an audio stream so how can a Media Center with hardware for today work when testing isn't fully completed?
5. Speaking of the new audio standards, Dolby has published the information on what will be required to enjoy the new 7.1 surround sound and right now there isn't a sound card available that can handle the new standard?
I'm sorry for the banter but the bull crap people get from these manufactures, and Hollywood types is getting to be too much.