Diva: WMV9 meets the DVD

From a post on Marketwire, Malata is demoing "Diva" -- DVD Player, Internet Broadband Streaming Device, Video Recorder, Audio/Video Playback of Digital Content on a Standard TV -- at the Microsoft booth at CES.

The DIVA is the first DVD/CD recorder to use Windows Media Video 9 to record over the air television programming directly on CD or DVD media. Taking advantage of WMV9's ability to deliver nearly three times the video storage of MPEG2 (and twice as much as MPEG4), the DIVA offers consumers the ability to record more than 11 hours of television programming onto a DVD (or nearly two hours on a CD).

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In addition to its unparalleled video capabilities, the DIVA can record more than 70 hours of WMA music per DVD. The DIVA also can serve as a broadband Internet browser able to "stream" Internet-based movies and music from a broadband Internet connection. And for home video buffs, the DIVA allows them to record their CDs of home movies using Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP and play them back directly on the DIVA with no time-consuming conversions to MPEG2. The DIVA is also the first DVD recorder to support HighMAT for audio, image and video, allowing easy access and navigation of custom CDs made on a PC of photos, music, and video with the click of a remote control.