Chapter 15

WM9 Integration in Consumer Electronics

This chapter pays attention to Windows Media 9 and consumer electronics (CE) devices. It also covers Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas in January 2003, I saw the first commercial DVD players capable of playing WM9 video files burned on blank DVD discs. Clearly this is a breakthrough for desktop video producers who want to skip third-party DVD authoring yet still deliver high-quality, full-screen performance on a TV or home theatre system. As noted in other chapters, a useful analogy ...

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