Panasonic SA-VK725DEE, Service Manual

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11 About HighMAT
11.1. What’s HighMAT?
Consumers worldwide are using PCs to create their own collections of music, photos and even video by burning them onto CDs.
But how these collections can be experienced across different devices can be confusing to navigate, time consuming to access for
a DVD player, and be incomplete in terms of music information available to the customer.
HighMAT offers a solution to this growing consumer problem. HighMAT dramatically improves the digital media experience on
consumer electronic devices by delivering a simple, standardized approach that allows consumers who have created personal
collections of digital music, photography and video on their PC to:
>> Create a HighMAT CD or DVD which can be easily played back on consumer electronics devices such as CD and DVD players,
and car stereos.
>> Move digital media files (using recordable media such as CD-R and CD-RW) between the PC and various playback devices
such as CD and DVD players.
A new standard for creating personal media on consumer electronic devices, HighMAT enable easier and more seamless
interoperability between Windows PCs and devices designed for your living room, or the car.
11.2. Why take advantage of HighMAT?
A Problem Defined:Today, when consumers create their own digital audio, video or photo collections on CD-R or other physical
formats, there are numerous, inconsistent ways that devices read the data. For the consumer, the playback experience can be
confusing:
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