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Cirgon's ENCORE™ is the first affordable server
for easily managing and enjoying all of your digital media including
photos, music, and movies. No PC or Mac required! Now anyone
can have full control over their digital media without being an
audio-visual expert.
ENCORE
connects to your home theater system providing crisp, bright images
on your HDTV at full 1080i resolution. Play music on your stereo
system in 7.1 digital surround sound from your collection of digital
music stored on ENCORE.
Based on the Linux operating system means ENCORE
uses lower power, weighs less, and provides stable operation. Weighing
only 9 pounds and consuming only 35 watts of power, Encore is easily
installed in any Home Theater System.
Read
the latest review of ENCORE by Home Toys.com by clicking here.
Encore can play and display DVD movies, Photos,
Home Movies, Digital CD Music, and Internet Radio. Read on for more
information.
PHOTOS: How do you enjoy the photos you
shoot on vacations and family events? Bring your photos off your
computer or camera and into your life with ENCORE. Now you can enjoy
all your photos at anytime with a click of the remote control.
Are your photos still in your camera or locked
up on a website or your computer? Getting your digital photos from
your camera onto ENCORE is easy ... connect your camera or flash
card reader, select IMPORT, and Encore does the rest. It even asks
you if you want to make a backup DVD copy of your photos!
Easily create beautiful slideshows with music
and narration in minutes using the SmartSlide™ software.
Create a slideshow DVD using the built in burner to share your photo
slide show with music AND narration with your friends and family.
HOME-MOVIES: Watching home movies on your
HDTV today requires connecting your camcorder to the TV and playing
the movie. We change all of that with direct import of home video
files to the hard disk from most digital camcorders. Connect the
camcorder or card reader, press COPY on the remote control and ENCORE
does the rest. Now you can easily create a home video library just
like your photo library. ENCORE also supports direct import of movie
clips from most still cameras.
MUSIC: Tired of trying to locate your favorite
CD? One click will copy any CD in high fidelity with album art to
the hard drive using our Digital Music Extraction software. The
CD music will be placed in the digital library, with album art,
if available, under the proper genre to easily organize your music.
The album art will be displayed when playing your favorite selections.
Access your music by Album, Artist, Track or Genre using the search
capability.
Design custom playlists including any track from
any album using simple COPY and PASTE commands to create collections
for a special mood or occasion.
Now it is easier than ever to get CD music
loaded onto ENCORE. You can send your CD collection to Ready
to Play in Palo Alto, CA and they will rip them onto a USB hard
disk drive. Then all your have to do is plug in the Hard Disk Drive
and run the Import CD Music command on ENCORE. All of your music
will be loaded by Genre with album art, if available, to the Music
directory. Click on the Ready to Play logo for more information.

DVD-MOVIES: Watch DVDs on the integrated
DVD player. Copy your DVDs directly to an internal RAID 1 HDD with
up to 1 TB of memory. Encore allows play only on our system. Play
any movie with a click of the remote ... no more hunting for the
right DVD! Encore automatically upconverts standard resolution DVDs
to 1080p.
INTERNET RADIO: Listen
to Sirius, X-M and last.FM.com radio over the Internet using your
online account. Encore will display the album art for music played
from last.FM.com and X-M.
NETWORK: ENCORE supports full networking
to integrate into an existing home network to easily share files
between your computer and the server over the network.
All of this is done with an easy-to-use, custom
remote control in the comfort of your living room, family room or
home theater.
Click here
to see screenshots of the Encore user interface.
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