Technological innovations which bring a wide smile over users’ faces are more like a drop in the bucket. Marking an exception, Iomega has recently collaborated with Sonic Solutions for exhilarating users by delivering new high-definition media player products. The integration will offer users the ability to buy or rent premium entertainment to watch on their televisions without leaving the comfort of their relaxing room. To be precise, next-generation Iomega ScreenPlay HD media players will now incorporate the Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform.
As this holiday season soars high with enormous excitement mustered in, upcoming U.S. models in Iomega’s widely-lauded ScreenPlay HD Media Player line will embody the Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform. The conjugation proffers users instant access to buy or rent movies alongside other premium content via the Internet to watch on standard and high-definition televisions.
“Iomega’s award-winning ScreenPlay products make it easy for consumers to access video, photos, and music on home networks and enjoy that content on the television in the livingroom,” remarked Jonathan Huberman, president of Iomega and the Consumer and Small Business Products Division of EMC. “With Roxio CinemaNow, consumers will be able to access premium content directly from Iomega’s ScreenPlay HD Media devices. Now U.S. consumers can rent or buy movies over the Internet without needing their computer or ever leaving the livingroom. We are pleased to partner with Sonic Solutions to add this functionality to our industry leading ScreenPlay line up and further differentiate our products from others in the marketplace.”
Digging slightly, the Roxio CinemaNow entertainment platform serves a broad range of supreme content to a growing, multi-manufacturer ecosystem of home and mobile electronics including PCs, connected TVs, set-top DVRs, Blu-ray Disc players, smartphones, and mobile phone devices. In fact, Roxio CinemaNow powered stores allow users to instantly rent and purchase high-quality entertainment on their favorite device and, through CinemaNow online movie storage, the flexibility to playback content ordered on additional user electronics devices.
“Iomega’s ScreenPlay HD products are an ideal solution for consumers looking to simply and conveniently access and enjoy personal digital media as well as their favorite entertainment. By partnering with Iomega we are helping form another seamless link between premium digital content and consumers’ entertainment venue of choice, the livingroom,” stated Mark Ely, executive vice president of strategy, Sonic Solutions.
On the other hand, Iomega ScreenPlay HD Media Player products smartly establish a strong link between the home network and the home theater, offering users an easy way to enjoy their videos, photos and music. Users can simply store content on the ScreenPlay product’s hard drive and then play the content on their TV.
These multimedia players encompass top-of-the-line models with network connectivity for optimum network storage and more convenient access to files on their home network, wireless capability, up to 1TB of onboard storage capacity along with support for high-definition video. In addition, an Energy Star qualified adapter, a USB 2.0 connector for accessing additional storage from a portable hard drive or a USB flash drive, and support for CODECs and file types for enjoying photos, music, and video selections also exist. Moreover, the economical ScreenPlay TV Link model which subsumes no onboard hard drive, ensures immense flexibility to bring content to the device via USB drives and USB flash drives.
Impressively, the players also feature a remote control and can capably hold up to 4 million photos, 18,500 hours of video, thereby enabling entertainment buffs to share high-resolution photos, music, and video clips with utmost comfort, without a computer.
The new Iomega ScreenPlay HD media players with Roxio CinemaNow are anticipated to be announced soon.
