e.Digital Corporation (fka EDIG)

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Here is Sigma mentioned in the October '02 e.Digital/DivX pr.

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10.04.2002, 10:21

e.Digital DivX hardware wants to develop


Soon portable DivX Videoplayer, DivX able DVD Player and digital video recorders?


After already sigma Design announced a partnership with DivXNetworks as well as a first DivX hardware, follows now also e.Digital. Together with DivXNetworks DivX certified devices are to be developed and marketed, among them portable DivX able video Player, DVD Player, digital video recorders, home video servers, set Top boxes and digital video cameras.

Beyond that e.Digital and DivXNetworks want to provide the devices with copy protection system, in order to offer to contents offerers a safe MPEG-4-Plattform. Authentifizierung, access supervision, coding, different water-mark techniques and transaction administration permits DivX digital Rights management (DRM)System, in order to permit a safe supply from videos to.

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and one the founder of DivXNetworks, sees an important step in the partnership to spread DivX technology on a set from digital devices to. The first product resulting from co-operation should be available toward end of the yearly. E.Digital wants to put its technology also to third manufacturers (OEMs and/or ODMs) at the disposal.

So far is e.Digital mainly in the range MP3-Player active. Thus for example the technology of the MTV-MP3-Players with Dataplay drive assembly, appearing in the summer, comes from e.Digital.