Everything you need to know about multimedia hard drives
By: Iomega corp
Multimedia Hard Drives: Entertainment's Finest
What to know before you Buy
Multimedia Hard Drives
Multimedia Hard Drives are an exciting new development in hard drive technology. These new drives are designed to work with your home theater system, providing extra storage and unique features.
Traditionally, there have been just three types of Portable hard drives are smaller and lighter, so they easily fit into a backpack or briefcase. Portable drives connect to your laptop when you travel, or you can use them to transport your files to a computer at another location. Network hard drives can be very useful if your home or office has more than one computer. By simply plugging the drive into your network through a hub or router (like a cable modem), you can access data on the drive from any location or backup all your computers to one convenient location.
Recently, hard drive manufacturers have created a new category of drive – the Multimedia drive . These drives are not only high-capacity storage for your pictures, music and video, but they can also play your media files directly on your TV! Most offer high definition playback, as well as stereo audio. With Multimedia drive s, you can enjoy all your digital content right in your living room – no computer needed!
General Features
The best Multimedia Hard Drives come with a rich set of features. Most offer High Definition connections through HDMI cables. You can also connect through the standard composite (red-yellow-white) or component connectors on any television. Since digital movie files can be very large, and people have increasing bigger collections of digital music, Multimedia drive s provide a lot of storage – from 500GB up to one terabyte. Look at it this way: a terabyte of storage will hold about 1,500 hours of video, about 18,500 hours of music, and a staggering 4,000,000 digital photos!
This sounds great, but you might be wondering how these multimedia players really work. It is quite simple. Just connect the Multimedia drive to your PC with the included USB cable, and copy your media files onto it. Unplug the Multimedia drive from your computer, and take it to your home theater. Simply connect it directly to your TV via the HDMI cable or the RCA cables (red, yellow, and white). Turn it on with the remote control, and you can sit back and browse through all your digital multimedia content from the comfort of your favorite chair! Most multimedia players can scale the resolution of your content to match your television.
Iomega® Lineup
Iomega® offers a feature rich multimedia product line consisting of the Media Xporter, the Multimedia Screenplay, the Screenplay TV Link, and the DVR Expander Drive.
Media Xporter
With its cool black and green look, the Media Xporter
is the perfect accessory for gamers. It is designed to work with your XBOX 360 or Sony PlayStation 3. The Media Xporter
comes in 160 GB or 320GB capacities. Fill this little drive with your favorite music and movies, then take it with you to play back through game console. The Media Xporter
is very easy to use – just plug and play with the included USB/Power cable – and works with any computer, Mac or PC. It even comes with a free download of software you can use to convert your media files to a format that can play back on the game console.
Screenplay multimedia hard drive
The Iomega® ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive is a must-have accessory for your home theater. Download your favorite content from your PC onto this device, and enjoy it in High Def (scalable up to 1080i). The ScreenPlay offers up to a terabyte of storage, and will play back most popular digital media formats. It supports MP3, AC3, Dolby®, WMA, WAV and OGG audio files. Video formats include MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB), .MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD). Put all your digital photos on the ScreenPlay, and you can show slideshows with music right on the TV. ScreenPlay HD supports a full range of audio/visual connectivity, including SCART, HDMI, composite video, and component video. The ScreenPlay multimedia hard drive supports resolutions of 480i/480p, and can scale to 720p/1080i. It even includes Play list Manager software that allows you to automatically playback a series of movies or music. You can create your own “greatest hits” sound track or string together all your preschooler’s favorite movies.
ScreenPlay TV Link
The ScreenPlay TV Link is an ultra-compact multimedia player. The TV Link offers same functionality as the ScreenPlay in a much smaller design. If you already have a USB hard drive full of multimedia content, the TV Link is an affordable option. Just connect your hard drive, USB flash drive, or Iomega REV® Drive to this little beauty, and you are ready to enjoy all your movies, music, and pictures on your HD TV. Like the ScreenPlay, the TV Link supports all the most popular multimedia formats, like MP3, AVI, and JPEG (for the complete list of supported formats, see www.store.iomega.com). TV Link comes with the same Play list Manager software as ScreenPlay HD.
DVR Expander Drive
Have you ever lost a favorite off your digital video recorder because you just had too many shows set to record? If your DVR is always full, you need the DVR Expander Drive.. The DVR Expanderis a hard drive that connects directly to your Scientific Atlanta Explorer DVR through eSATA, and provides 500GB of extra storage, which translates to about 300 hours of standard TV or 60 hours of HDTV content.
With this line up, Iomega® stands out as one of the premier Multimedia Hard Drive suppliers. All of the products from the Media Xporter
to the DVR Expander are highly rated not only for dependability and ease of use but also for superb video, audio and photographic reproduction.
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