DVD on NT 4.0 arrives for select models of IBM ThinkPad notebooks; IBM ThinkPad1 600, 600E and 5702 users become the first customers to play DVD on NT 4.0 notebooks.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 1999-- MARGI Systems, Inc. has launched its popular DVD-to-Go product for the Windows NT 4.0 platform. DVD-to-Go on NT 4.0, compatible with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ThinkPad models 600, 600E and 570, now provides mobile NT 4.0 users the power to create persuasive multimedia presentations and watch full resolution DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. . A ThinkPad Proven product, DVD-to-Go is a PC Card that decodes full color, full-motion video (30 fps) along with Dolby(R) Digital Surround Sound. DVD-to-Go pioneers the concept of NT 4.0 as a multimedia platform, allowing ThinkPad mobile NT 4.0 users to reap the benefits of DVD-to-Go and other high-performance digital audio/video technologies. Before DVD-to-Go on NT 4.0, mobile NT 4.0 users were limited to MPEG-1 video and analog stereo output. DVD-to-Go offers a solution for mobile NT 4.0 users to play MPEG-2 video, Dolby Digital (AC3) audio and CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. encrypted media. Other benefits using DVD-to-Go include high performance video resolution at 720 x 480 NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. or 720 x 576 PAL (16 million colors), TV-out, MPEG-1 compatibility, sharp slow motion, freeze-frame video and a multiple camera angle option. It is easy to use and allows for multitasking capability, without using much of the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . In addition, the same DVD-to-Go card can be used in more than one notebook. For the latest in cross platform compatibility, visit MARGI's web site, www.margi.com. "Windows NT is now a popular operating system for many in business computing," said Shrikant Acharya For the pen name of D. Murdock, see . An acharya is an important religious teacher. The word has different meanings in Hinduism and Jainism. In Hinduism In the Hindu religion, an acharya (आचार्य) is a Divine personality , president, MARGI Systems. "As applications grow for advanced multimedia, finding a solution for the large NT 4.0 market is imperative. Our success in developing a NT 4.0 compatible driver for DVD-to-Go will allow anyone-from home users to IBM business executives and IT professionals-to finally experience both performance and exceptional multimedia." Besides NT 4.0, DVD-to-Go has driver support for Windows 95 and Windows 98. DVD-to-Go's GUI application layer interface is supported for the DVD Navigator (Player), Video CD 2.0 and multiple zoomed video notebooks. DVD-to-Go can be purchased through Ingram Micro, the world's largest distributor of computer products, SKU no. 782101. Contact 800.456.8000 or www.ingrammicro.com. The NT 4.0 driver upgrade is only available at MARGI Systems, www.margi.com. (1) IBM makes no warranties, expressed or implied regarding ThinkPad Proven products and services, including year 2000 readiness and implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. (2) When used with Options by IBM DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. drive and the ThinkPad 570 UltraBase. About MARGI Systems MARGI Systems develops the broadest and most advanced Zoomed Video (ZV) product line in the mobile computing industry. MARGI has lead the industry with the first audio and video capture card See video capture board. , the first ZV-port PC card and the first MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). PC Card. MARGI's current Multimedia-to-Go product family has received numerous acclaims for performance, reliability and compatibility. For more information, contact 510.657.4435 or www.margi.com. |
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