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12 About HighMAT<br />
12.1. What is HighMAT?<br />
This word combines the abbreviations of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. and High Performance Media Access Technology,<br />
and is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The products with the HighMAT logo shown below are made according to the<br />
HighMAT standard.<br />
HighMAT is a format that allows users to save digital contents such as photographs, audio, and images on a CD. This gives<br />
consistency in the way of reading data when general consumer products (such as DVD players) and PCs are used, and thus, it is<br />
easy to operate for the user.<br />
12.2. Why use HighMAT?<br />
Up to now, there was no harmonized standard from playing digital content stored in CD-ROM formats (including CD-R) on<br />
consumer products like DVD players.Therefore, we used to have problems such as follow:<br />
· There was no common play list or attached information on contents, which is called metadata.<br />
· The data compression method differed according to the equipment.<br />
· As the number of CD-ROMs recorded increased retrieved the contents became more difficult.<br />
· Because display and operation methods were different depending on the equipment, the play order of the content on the same<br />
disc could change.<br />
12.3. The advantages of using HighMAT<br />
Applying the HighMAT standard will solve the following problems and will improve usability.<br />
· It will create a common user interface for both PC and consumer products.<br />
· Regardless of the types of consumer products, such as DVD players, portable CD players, car stereos, and micro computers,<br />
a consistent way to pay for digital content will be created and it will make it easier to retrieve data.<br />
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