Malata/Wanlida announces DiVA 489-WMV9 CD/DVD recorder

October 30, 2003

The DiVA 489 from Wanlida is the first DVD recorder to use Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series video compression (WMV9) for digital video recording to DVD and CD disc, as well as playback of streamed and downloaded video. In the US to the Recorder will be sold under the Polaroid brand. Giovanni D'Andrea, president of Aeon Digital Corp. states, "The DiVA's innovative support for Windows Media will allow consumers to record three times more programming on a single DVD or CD than any other DVD recorder on the market today."

"Consumers can now record more of their favorite content onto each DVD and CD thanks to the DiVA recorder's innovative use of Windows Media 9 Series," said Jason Reindorp, group product manager in the Windows Digital
Media Division at Microsoft. "Users of
the DiVA will also enjoy playing back their home movies they made with
Windows Movie Maker 2, adding another fun dimension to this all-in-one
unit."

Aeon Digital is also building the network
that comes with the DiVA to deliver content from the Internet into the
consumer's living room TV using plug and play technology, direct to
the Internet of the future. The broadband streaming of content will be the
video store direct into a consumer's living room. Aeon Digital has
aggregated over 1000 hours of entertainment related
content.

Recording time on the machine varies with the type of media used. A standard CD-R/RW can hold two full hours of programming and a DVD+R/RW can hold more than 6 hours of DVD quality content using the built in Microsoft(R) Windows Media 9 encoding, and more than 15 hours of recording on a recordable DVD using a lower bit rate.

Source: i4u.com