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November 11, 2004
Upcoming Beyond Media Feature List
I found this post on Snapstream's forum, listing the features that will be included in Beyond Media, a new product to directly compete with other media center products.
Here's what will be included:
- Photos
- Browse your photo files
- Play a slideshow
- Rotate or zoom during a slideshow
- Pan zoomed photos during a slideshow
- Supported formats: JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIF, TIFF
- Music
- Browse your music files
- Sort your music by album, artist, or genre
- Playlist creation and playback
- Current Playlist screen with visualizations
- Supported formats: AIFF, AU, MID, MIDI, MP3, WAV, WMA, WPL
- Play an audio CD
- Video
- Browse your video files
- Fast forward, rewind, 30s skip, 7s back
- Playback support for Beyond TV SmartChapters
- Supported formats: WMV, AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, M2P, M2V
- DVD playback
- DVD codec included (with Dolby 5.1 surround sound)
- Fast forward, rewind, 30s skip, 7s back
- Previous and next chapter support
- Title and root menu support
- Audio track selection support
- Subtitle selection support
- Weather
- The weather plugin allows you to check out the latest weather conditions in your area
- SnapStream Spotlight
- Buy and listen to music from online music download sites like Napster
- Rent the latest Hollywood movies from Movielink or Cinemanow without leaving the comfort of your living room.
- Listen to Internet Radio through internet radio sites like Live365
- Plays well with Beyond TV, Firefly
- Integrates seamlessly with SnapStream's Beyond TV
- Works out of the box with SnapStream's Firefly
- Miscellaneous
- File browser
- Start Menu browser
- "Running applications" browser
- Full-screen setup wizard
- Automatic notification when new updates are available
- Customizability
- Rich skinning architecture
- Powerful plug-in architecture (based around .Net)
- Configurable menus
Sounds pretty cool. I can't wait to try it out.
Posted on November 11, 2004
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