Let’s face it, not all laptops live the cushy lives you see depicted in commercials. Board rooms, airplanes and living room couches may be the domains of Mr. Corporate, but out in the real world, laptops don’t have it quite so easy. They get knocked around. They get spilled on. They get stolen. And all of these are reasons not to invest in the latest and greatest model – and instead go with a budget laptop.
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Pinnacle Updates Showcenter Media Device
Pinnacle Systems , Inc. today released ShowCenter 1.5, the newest version of its set-top digital media receiver. The new version adds personal video recorder (PVR), Internet radio and enhanced usability features to its already long list of capabilities. ShowCenter 1.5 is expected to be available in retail channels in June 2004.
Pinnacle ShowCenter is a digital media receiver that connects to wireless and wired home local area networks (LAN) and enables streaming of multimedia files from any PC on the network to a television or home entertainment system connected to ShowCenter. Using the ShowCenter remote control, consumers can easily find and play their digital audio, video and photos stored on the PC – all from the comfort of their living room sofa.
New Pinnacle ShowCenter unveiled
Pinnacle ShowCenter
Pinnacle interoperability with new Flash MX
Using Pinnacle’s powerful XSend functionality, all Pinnacle Liquid and Edition users can seamlessly publish clips and projects as Flash video objects so that their compelling video images can beenhanced, using Flash MX Professional 2004, with content and interactivity targeted specifically for the web.
“Enhancing web projects with video has been difficult and labor-intensive to date,” said Forest Key, senior product manager, Macromedia. “By empowering its highly creative customer base withXSend-to-Flash Video for Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004, Pinnacle gives users the flexibility they have been looking for to create enticing, interactive and entertaining websites.”
Pinnacle Systems version 5 now available
Unlike any other video editing application, Edition 5 includes key features such as integrated DVD authoring capabilities that lets users quickly create and burn DVDs right from the editing timelineand a new scalable architecture designed to deliver improved performance in connection with future CPU or GPU upgrades. Through these features and more, content producers can create compellinghigh-quality video for CD, DVD and the Web faster and more efficiently than ever before.
“The real-time effects capability of Edition has increased our productivity immensely,” said Michael Billingsley, president of Videographic West in Avon, Colorado. “The integrated DVD authoringinside Edition gives us a fast and powerful solution to create DVDs right inside our editing solution. You simply can’t do this in other editing software.”
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