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Theater
All-in-One PC Home Entertainment Center
InterVideo, Inc. announced today InterVideo
Home Theater, a complete digital entertainment solution for watching and
recording TV programs, viewing DVDs/VCDs, personal music libraries and photo
slideshows. Equipped with an easy-to-use interface, users can enjoy these
capabilities on their living room PC or TV using a PC or notebook. With the
remote control that is also included, consumers can easily control Home Theater
features from the comfort of their couch. Completely hardware independent,
InterVideo Home Theater can be used with Windows(R) 2000, and XP systems.
Scheduling TV Shows for Viewing/Recording: InterVideo Home Theater makes
it easy to find and schedule TV shows for viewing and reco rding because it
carries out an automatic channel scan for antenna and cable-based TV receiver
devices. When deciding which program to select, users can either channel surf or
schedule upcoming broadcasts. Once recorded to the owner's PC hard drive, the
videos c an be sorted by date or name for easy navigation, and thumbnail images
can be viewed to speed searches.
Video Playback: To ensure high-quality
playback of recorded TV programs, as well as videos downloaded from the
Internet, DVDs/VCDs and camcorder clips, Home Theater comes with InterVideo's
powerful WinDVD(R) engine, one of the world's most popular software solutions
for DVD playback on a PC. Consumers can also use Home Theater to capture screen
snapshots of favorite video scenes and save them as digital pictures on their
hard drives. The screen shots can then be viewed or printed using Home Theater's
Picture application.
Personal Music Libraries: With InterVideo Home
Theater's Music function, users can put all of their music files into a single
library. The easy-to-use interface makes it simple to sort songs by title,
artist, album or genre and create multiple personalized playlists of music
compilations to suit every mood.
Photo Slideshows: InterVideo Home
Theater's Picture application enables users to view thumbnail images of photos
and sort them by date or name for easy navigation. Photos can even be sent from
the remote control device directly to the printer. Home Theater can also be used
to automatically create professional-looking slide shows with amazing transition
effects. Slide shows can be further enhanced with background music by assigning
a playlist music folder to run during the show.
Multi-channel Audio
Support - InterVideo Home Theater can be used with PC multi-channel sound cards
for a complete Dolby Digital 5.1 audio experience or it can output a digital
signal to multi-channel receivers in home theater systems.
To simplify
installation, InterVideo Home Theater includes an easy-to-use Setup Wizard that
can be accessed through the main control panel. Settings can be changed at any
time by clicking on the Settings button on the main menu.
By combining
all of the most popular digital video and audio features into a single
application, InterVideo Home Theater is an idea l replacement for DVD players
and VCRs. Users can schedule TV recordings and send emails while watching TV,
listening to music or surfing the Web -- all with the video and audio quality
they have come to expect from InterVideo solutions.
Pricing,
Availability
InterVideo Home Theater is available at
InterVideo's web site, www.intervideo.com with
a limited time introductory price of $ 99. The price includes a 36-key remote
control and the USB dongle for the user's PC.
About InterVideo,
Inc. InterVideo is a leading provider of DVD software. InterVideo has
developed a technology platform from which it has created a broad suite of
integrated multimedia software products that allow users to capture, edit,
author, burn, distribute, and play digital vide o. InterVideo's software is
bundled with products sold by the majority of the leading PC OEMs. The company
is headquartered in Frem ont, CA with regional offices in Europe, Taiwan, China
and Japan. For more information, contact InterVideo at 510/651-0888 or visit the
company's Web site at www.intervideo.com.
Source: InterVideo Inc.
