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Easily Enjoy Music, Movies and Photos Throughout Your Home
Feel Right At Home With Top Quality Digital Music, Movies and Photos
Now you don't need to sit in front of your PC to enjoy your digital media. ShowCenter 200 lets you experience the very best of everything — music, movies, and photos — on your home TV and audio system. High Definition Photos and Video The ultimate in crystal-clear pictures and CD quality sound! Enjoy High Definition output of your photo slide shows, videos, and HD videos captured from TV broadcasts. Your high-megapixel digital camera photos will look sharper than ever on the big screen. Turn them into slide shows, complete with subtitles and background music. Access to Premium Content No more reloading your CD player. Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 gives you access to digital rights-protected (DRM) music that you've purchased online so you can watch or listen to them on your home theater system, TV or stereo, including audio from RealRhapsody®. Handy USB Placement A USB port on the front panel of the ShowCenter player makes it simple to watch or listen to your digital entertainment or connect your digital camera, external drive, or USB drive. Easy Setup and Usability Connect to your PC or home network with a wired or a wireless connection — integrated 802.11g wireless support gives you a choice. The Quickstart wizard leads you step-by-step through setup. PVR Functionality Control the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) features on your Pinnacle PCTV tuner card (purchased separately) from the ShowCenter unit in your living room without any subscription fees. Use the remote control to record your favorite shows directly from ShowCenter. Timeshifting lets you fast forward past commercials, rewind and replay your program. Includes support for analog, satellite, and DVB-T digital video broadcasting standards. Powerful, Flexible Media Management Pinnacle's MediaManager software lets you organize your media files in several categories, or find them in predefined genre lists. It supports a huge range of popular media formats. Burn your music collections and films to CD or DVD for archiving or sharing with friends. Import your entire CD music collection with integrated ripping.
Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 Hardware
Features Pinnacle ShowCenter is a bridge between your PC and your home entertainment system. It comes complete with the ShowCenter player, remote control, and Pinnacle MediaManager software so you can enjoy the entire realm of digital media. Stream your stored PC files and your Internetpurchased premium content music right into your living room. LED on front of ShowCenter indicates a new media file is ready for playback
Premium Content Now you can take advantage of high-quality Microsoft® Windows Media® 9 music. Once you've purchased them online, you can stream them from your PC to your home entertainment center for immediate viewing and listening pleasure.
Easy Setup and Access
Just connect the ShowCenter 200 player to your PC via a wired or wireless connection. ShowCenter 200 has integrated 802.11g wireless functionality with a built-in antenna. The Quickstart installation wizard leads you through installation.
ShowCenter Application
High Definition Viewing Enjoy High Definition (HD) and DivX® videos, photos, and music. Watch HD movies you've captured from TV, and HD slide shows you've put together from your high-megapixel digital still camera pictures.
ShowCenter Player and Remote Control
Convenient USB Access The USB connector on the front panel of the ShowCenter player makes it easy to enjoy photos from or other media files from your digital still camera / media storage device. Media Management Extraordinaire MediaManager software takes care of all the media files on your PC. Import music from CDs and video tapes, and burn any file to CD or DVD. Create playlists for your music, movies and photos. MediaManager software automatically catalogs your audio, video, and photo files by category, album, and genre. As you add or remove media it automatically updates your catalog. And it automatically converts non-supported file formats. ShowCenter 200 with MediaManager makes it easy to: • Create custom playlists of your music, movies, and photos • Choice of automatic audio playlists: top rated, most played, least played, not yet played • Add your entire CD collection to your database with integrated CD ripping • Burn your playlists and slide shows to CD • Rate your media from 1 to 5 stars • Add parental controls to specified files
Inputs and outputs: The ShowCenter 200 player delivers optimum video and audio. The A/V connectivity is equivalent to a premium quality DVD-player and consists of: • SCART 21-pin connector (Europe-only, also known as Peritel connector or Euroconnector) with composite, Y/C, RGB, stereo audio • Component video output (“YPrPb”, 3 x RCA) • Composite video output (1 x RCA) • Y/C (“S-Video”) video output (1 x Hosiden) • Stereo audio outputs (“Line-Out”) (2 x RCA) • Additional stereo audio output (for separate connection to stereo system) (2 x RCA) • Digital audio outputs, both optical (1 x Toslink) and electrical (S/PDIF 1 x RCA) Further inputs and outputs: • Ethernet RJ-45 (100BASE-T) with associated connection/data LEDs • Integrated Wi-Fi® 802.11b/g interface with built-in antenna • Power cable connector • IR receiver • USB connector on front panel Switches and Indicators • Power button on front panel • LED for standby or power ON mode • LED on front of ShowCenter indicates a new media file is ready Supported File Formats Music: MP3, MPEG-1 layer 2 (MPA), PCM WAV, WMA. Incompatible audio files (such as WMA Lossless, WMA Pro) will be converted to MP3 at 192 kbit/s. Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-2 VOB, MPEG-4 AVI, XviD, WMV9 HD Video: WM9 HD up to 1080i, WM9 HD up to 1080i with DRM, MPEG-2 HD up to 720p, MPEG-4 HD AVI up to 720p. Incompatible video files (such as DV) will be converted to a ShowCenter compatible format as set by the user. Images: JPEG, BMP, PNG, and GIF. All “portrait”-oriented image files are rotated by 90° as defined in the ShowCenter 200 database. The pictures are optimized on the fly for TV screen display and stored as a copy in JPEG format, preserving the original image file. A software color correction and flicker filter is selectable from the ShowCenter 200 player. Video standards for A/V outputs: • PAL 25 fps full D1 720 x 576 interlaced • NTSC 29.97 fps full DV 720 x 480 interlaced • HD 480p, HD 720p, HD 1080i Physical Specifications • Dimensions: 11.81 x 9.06 x 1.58 in • Weight: 5.31 lbs
System Requirements ShowCenter Interface
Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 Lets You Do So Much! • Resume viewing videos where you left off • Stream Internet SHOUTcast™ radio or RealRhapsody online music through your home audio system • Listen to music on your stereo with the TV turned off — just assign playlists and radio stations to remote control buttons • Watch TV while you add to your video collection — remote PVR allows TV viewing at the same time you're recording • Display subtitles for AVI and VOB playback • Enjoy movies with Dolby® Digital surround sound. (If you don't have a Dolby Digital Receiver, Dolby Digital 5.1 to 2-channel down-mix can be activated online for a onetime fee.)
Minimum System Requirements: • Intel® Pentium® III 1.0 GHz or equivalent AMD® Athlon® CPU or Celeron®/Duron 1.2 GHz • 256 MB RAM • EIDE hard disk with minimum 10 GB free space • DirectX® 8 or higher compatible graphics • DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound controllers • CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive • 802.11b/g for wireless connection or 10/100BASE-T for wired Ethernet connection • Mouse • Windows XP (Professional or Home edition) or Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or higher Recommended System: • Intel Pentium 4, 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1800 • 512 MB RAM • UDMA hard drive with 80 GB or more disk space • DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics and sound controller • CD or DVD recorder • 802.11g for wireless connection or 100BASE-T for wired Ethernet connection • Mouse • Windows XP Home or Professional edition Service Pack 1 or higher Product Includes: • Pinnacle ShowCenter 200 • Power cable • Ethernet cable • Remote control • 2 AA batteries 1.5 V for remote control • CD-ROM with drivers and applications • ShowCenter User Manual • ShowCenter Quick Start Guide
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor with HT technology or Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology in combination with Pinnacle ShowCenter Software is the ideal combination for your digital home solution. Pinnacle Systems Inc. - 280 N. Bernardo Avenue - Mountain View - CA - 94043 © 2005 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. and its licensors. All Rights Reserved. Pinnacle Systems, the Pinnacle Systems logo and ShowCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. ©2004 Dicas Digital Image Coding GmbH. Intel, Pentium, Centrino, the Intel Centrino logo and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. RealNetworks and RealRhapsody are registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.
