PortalPlayer to Support Sony's Full Suite of Digital Media Technologies - November 22, 2000
PortalPlayer Inc., a Memory Stick licensee that produces platform solutions for digital audio has announced that it plans to support Sony's OpenMG, MagicGate and ATRAC3 digital media technologies in products it is developing for release in 2001. PortalPlayer's Tango Digital Media platform, the industry's first platform for portable consumer electronics products that support the encoding and playback of digital audio files without using a personal computer, already supports Memory Stick media. Planned support for OpenMG, MagicGate and ATRAC3 reinforces PortalPlayer's commitment to providing its customers with complete platform solutions that support both secure and open delivery and management of digital media. PortalPlayer offers complete system solutions for new consumer electronics products with digital audio downloading, encoding and playback capability. Platforms are targeted at next generation entertainment products including portable MP3-type player/recorder systems, hybrid systems combining CD and digital audio player/recorders, and hard-drive equipped digital audio jukeboxes.
