Tuesday, June 8, 2004
HD Windows Media Players Coming Soon?
Related Entries: Home Theater
Microsoft and STMicroelectronics have teamed up to bring us High-Definition Windows Media 9 Content on leading set-top box and DVD hardware platforms. Today announced that the two companies are working together to develop a series of new integrated circuit components for manufacturers of consumer electronics products. These components will extend the reach of high-quality, secure Windows Media 9 Series content, in both standard and high definition. Support of Windows Media 9 Series in products means we will be able to easily enjoy the high audio and video quality that Windows Media provides. I’m a huge believer in the WMV HD spec, it works with current technologies and is inexpensive to produce. I just hope it becomes the standard.
Some useful facts:
- Windows Media Audio 9, which provides playback of high-quality two-channel audio with remarkable compression efficiency
- Windows Media Audio 9 Professional, which delivers 5.1 or even 7.1 channels of discrete digital surround sound at bit rates as low as 128 kbps, and supports 24-bit resolution and 96 kHz sample rates to deliver better-than-CD quality sound
- Windows Media Video 9 (including VC-9), which delivers high video quality at all bit rates and even supports high-definition video, with up to six times the resolution of DVD-video, at approximately one-third the bit rate of MPEG-2
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COMMENTS
Posted by John Cirrus at June 8, 2004 12:55 PM
cool, I’ll be able to see “please download proper codec” in hi def. ;-)
Posted by John Cirrus at June 8, 2004 2:14 PM
Cool, I’ll be able to see “please install proper codec” in high-definition ;-)
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