Microsoft and Panasonic Consumer Electronics on Thursday announced additional hardware and software makers who will support HighMAT, a technology co-developed by the two companies that aims to provide better interoperability between PCs and consumer electronics devices such as DVD players, CD players, and car stereos.
The technology aims to make it easier for consumers to take digital pictures, music, and video clips recorded onto optical media disks from their PCs and play them back on consumer devices. It should help to organize and play back content via a graphical interface on the consumer products, and as such could be a plus for consumers, said Richard Doherty, director of analyst company The Envisioneering Group, in Seaford, N.Y.
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