Multimedia in Vehicles, the Home, and the Office Featured at 1394 Trade Association CES 2001 Booth 3747
4 January 2001
Multimedia in Vehicles, the Home, and the Office Featured at 1394 Trade Association CES 2001 Booth 3747
LAS VEGAS--Jan. 4, 2001--A complete set of demonstrations and products featuring the 1394/FireWire/i.LINK multimedia standard -- for the car, office and home -- are at Booth 3747 in CES 2001 Jan. 6-9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, hosted by the 1394 Trade Association.
At the center of the 1394 TA exhibit is a new Lincoln Navigator from Ford Motor Company, providing a complete look at a standard multimedia network interface for electronics, the IDB-1394 specification, opens a new world of audio and video in cars, trucks, SUVs, and other vehicles.
The Navigator features a Sony Playstation 2 interfacing with two in-vehicle 1394 video displays, showing how portable consumer electronic multimedia devices can interface in vehicles without major modifications. The Navigator also features a Sony camcorder with native 1394 technology built into it and an Alpine digital versatile disk that demonstrates the universal plug-and-play advantages the IDB-1394 specification enables. Digital Harmony supplied its DHIVA interface to the media devices in the automotive entertainment network, while Zayante provided its software to power a back seat entertainment system Inside the Navigator, a customer 'convenience port' built into the network backbone lets users plug in their choice of electronic devices, such as a notebook computer or handheld device, using the same cable that is used in the home.
Home Networking, Digital Video Editing and Retail Demonstrations Also in Booth 3747
Leaders of the 1394 Trade Association, including Texas Instruments, Sony, Apple Computer, Molex, NEC Electronics, Lucent, Procomp, Zayante and others will host a complete set of the latest demonstrations in digital video editing, home networking and audio areas of the booth.
Pinnacle will demonstrate its Studio DV product in the Home Net section of the booth, and a host of cables, connectors, hard drives and other 1394-equipped products from companies such as ACON, Belkin, Newnex and others will be on display in the 1394 TA's retail products section.
The 1394 Trade Association includes more than 165 companies dedicated to the advancement and proliferation of the IEEE 1394 specification. For more information, please call the TA offices at 1-408-748-9416 or visit www.1394ta.org