Shining Technology Announces CitiDISK DV/FireWire Technology; Unique Solution Offers Direct Recording and Instant Playback.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Macworld New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of 2002 Booth #574 Shining Technology, a leader in providing high-performance data storage solutions for digital consumer products, today launched at the Macworld Conference (Booth #574) the CitiDISK DV, a plug-and-play FireWire storage solution. Macworld Conference & Expo is a must-attend staple for the Mac community and anyone that uses a Mac to enhance their careers, personal lives and creativity or is interested in Mac hardware, software and peripherals. For the avid Mac professionals and video editors, the CitiDISK DV offers portability (product comes battery equipped) and direct recording DV streams from camcorder to hard disks and instant playback from the computer. All of the DV streams are recorded and organized as computer-recognizable files, and users can instantly play back, edit, review and archive files See archive. . In addition, the CitiDISK DV hard disk has an IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 standard that acts as a regular FireWire for data storage when not being used in multimedia applications. FireWire is a cross-platform implementation of the high-speed serial data bus that can move large amounts of data between computers and peripheral devices See peripheral. peripheral device - peripheral . It features simplified cabling, hot swapping (hardware) hot swapping - The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software. and transfer speeds of up to 400 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. . In accelerating the movement of multimedia data and large files, FireWire is ideally suited for the connection of digital consumer products, such as digital camcorders, digital videotapes, digital videodisks, set-top boxes and music systems, directly to a Mac. A variety of data indicate that major manufacturers of multimedia devices have been adopting FireWire technology at a rapid pace. "Since 1998, Shining Technology has been developing 1394 products for this emerging market," said Chris Wang, the company's U.S. marketing manager. "We believe that the direct recording and instant playback capabilities provided by CitiDISK DV truly represent a breakthrough in data storage solutions for the Macintosh and editing professionals. We are excited to debut the product at Macworld Expo." With CitiDISK DV, users can cut, paste or add special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. and other functions immediately, without re-capturing. The computer reads in the DV stream as 66 MBs/sec (ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment 66), which is four times faster than capturing the data from a camcorder. DV streams are recorded in a pre-formatted HFS (Hierarchical File System) The file system used in the Macintosh. The first version, known as "Mac OS Standard," was introduced in 1985. HFS+, an enhanced version, came out in 1998 in preparation for the upcoming Mac OS X operating system. + or FAT32 computer-recognizable file. In addition, users can save final rendered video streams into CitiDISK DV in the same speed, which is four times faster than backing up to a FireWire tape deck. Key applications for the product include online capture for home video camcorder and digital video cassette video cassette Noun a cassette containing video tape video cassette n → videocassette f video cassette n → player archive, computer data file backup and archive, Web video capture, and multimedia. CitiDISK is currently available through retail outlets, as well as being sold to OEMs. Depending on options, pricing ranges from $499 (20GB) to $649 (40GB). About Shining Technology Founded in 1992, Shining Technology Inc. (www.shining.com), is a Cypress, Calif.-based provider of cost-effective, high-performance, and highly reliable computer peripherals. The company is moving to become a dominant player, with a primary focus on the data storage marketplace and has consistently been one of the leading suppliers of add-on storage products to the portable and desktop computing market. |
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