Music Giants Rolls Out Video Giants Service

01.08.08

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by Loyd Case
CES 2008 CoverageLas Vegas—Today you can order your movies and other entertainment online from Netflix, one disc at a time. What if you could get all the video and audio programming you want, all at once?

That's the premise behind Video Giants. Started by Music Giants, the leading provider of uncompressed, non-DRM downloadable digital music, Video Giants will offer a wide array of video programming. The first announced program provider is Paramount.

While the client software will be embedded in some OEM systems, such as those from Fuze, Envive and Russound, the primary delivery vehicle will be an external hard drive delivered direct to the buyer's door. This drive can be attached to a Windows Media Center PC, which then calls up over the Internet for the right DRM keys.

Music Giants has partnered with Seagate, who will be providing hard drives for use in the program delivery process.

Unlike Music Giants, Video Giants will be using DRM to protect program content. Music Giants CEO Scott Bahneman noted that while the music studios are starting to adopt a non-DRM approach, DRM is still part of the picture for the foreseeable future for video content. Pricing and availability were not available.

http://www.musicgiants.com/images/75movies_VGlogo.jpg

if it was 100% bluray rez, then it's interesting... if it's DVD, yawn.

1080p was talked at CES fer sure.

MusicGiants sells premium entertainment for

high performance audio/video systems

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As the only download service offering HD music and video, we are the preferred partner for any audio/video equipment manufacturer and retailer focused on quality.

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MusicGiants sells HD music and video on a download basis and on hard drives (Concierge Collections) to customers who have made a significant investment in their home or car audio/video systems and are looking for high quality content to get the most enjoyment out of that investment.

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Presently, we are the only licensee of the right to download the entire digital catalogs of all of the major labels (Sony/BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, and Universal Music Group) in true CD quality (i.e. we use the Windows Media Audio Lossless (“WMA-L”) codec to encode and deliver our music. We also sell better than CD quality music from the majors and quality minded independent labels. With the cooperation of the copyright owners, we have remastered, or are in the process of remastering, several hundred SACD and DVD-A titles of high resolution (24bit/88.2 – 192 kHz) recordings into WMA-L.

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MusicGiants is currently in negotiations with numerous premium HD video licensors. Our video content is anticipated to include music videos, popular television programming, and full-length feature films.

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Distribution is being achieved through licensing our MusicGiants MediaStore software to high-end hardware manufacturers (i.e. Crestron, iMerge, Inteset, ADA, Niveus, Xperinet and Onkyo) as the content acquisition engine for their equipment.

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MusicGiants has developed a network of Custom Electronics installation professionals who integrate such quality goods into the homes of our targeted customer.

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We offer our Authorized Resellers a personalized HD Media Store to truly provide their clients a 360 degree audio/ video experience (i.e. quality a/v goods and HD entertainment to bring them to life). All of this while enjoying the image and presence of operating a licensed HD Media Store at minimal expense.

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Our HD Media Store is available on the web at: ehomex.musicgiants.com, inside Windows Media Player 10 and 11, and integrated into our partner’s media servers.

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We are the first to deliver large collections of HD music and video packaged on hard drive for delivery with our partner’s media servers.

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A Concierge Collection includes an external hard drive with MusicGiants HD music and video and HD Media Store Credit. The HD Media Store Credit is delivered as an account balance for the customer to purchase HD entertainment from your personalized HD Media Store.

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For each Concierge Collection the customer will have 5 licenses to store the collection in different locations. This allows the content to be played on multiple systems at multiple residences. Also, the customer is licensed to burn files to CD and sync files to compatible portable players. This allows for additional backup of purchased content.

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The Concierge Collection can be played directly from the hard drive via USB2 interface. However, for most applications, the hard drive provides a physical backup of the Concierge Collection, as well as a device to transfer the collection to multiple locations, after the content is transferred to a media server.