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Old 06-30-2008, 08:42 AM   #3
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Main Features

Play Internet audio, image and video streams and RSS/RDF/ATOM/OPML feeds and podcasts on your TV, Stereo and other connected devices
The media server streams media from the Internet and delivers it to connected devices via HTTP, the only protocol supported by those devices
The only truly universal media server (including support for the Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, the Sony PS3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, The Nokia 770/N800 and many more devices)
Use the same server for home and mobile networked devices (with multimedia capabilities) whether they support UPnP AV / DLNA or just have a web browser or an RSS/Podcast Reader
Enter your own Internet URLs or select from the bundled Audio and Video Guides
The media server is bundled with hundreds of TV stations from all over the world and thousands of radio stations
Play your ENTIRE media collection on your connected devices
Finally almost any content that plays in Windows Media Player can be played on any of the supported devices disregarding their codec limitations
Automatic Real-time Seamless Transcoding
Let the Media Server automatically detect when a given media needs to be transcoded for playback on your media player
Very fast browsing of your media library with unprecedented speed for huge libraries (up to 100,000 items and more)
The Media Server has a very short response time, allowing faster browsing of your media library
Advanced searching and smart playlists
The Media Server supports keyword searching as well as advanced search experssions and allows search results to be saved as playlists
Easy to use Graphical User Interface
Control the media server locally or remotely by running the GUI as a web application (both MSIE and Firefox are supported)
Support multiple devices simultaneously
Connect every room with a TV and other connected devices you own to the same media server
Share media with friends and family via RSS
Synchronize your media library with remote installaions of TVersity or with remote Podcast managers like iTunes
Support for all leading tagging formats and then some
ID3v1, ID3v2, Ogg Vorbis comments in Ogg, FLAC, and MPC/Ape, iTunes AAC tags, MPEG4 tags, ASF tags (WMA, WMV, DVR-MS)
Intuitive Navigation
Finally a media server that organizes your media properly, maintaining the order of songs, supporting extensive navigation criteria and doing it all very fast
Manage cache of transcoded media
No need to transcode the same media twice
Pause Live Internet feeds just like with Tivo
Watching live Internet TV and listening to live radio stations have never been so much fun
Runs as a service
You no longer need to log on to your computer for the media server to start
Works well on slow system while providing real benefits on faster ones
Transcode Internet videos (300 kbps) on very slow systems and downsample high definition videos to standard definition on fast ones
here are the features for those that dont want to go to the site
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