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My questions are as follows; Has anyone here any experiance with this software? Is it any good? Does it conflict with other CD software? All comments are welcomed.

Introducing HighMAT
HighMAT enables an exciting new generation of consumer electronics devices which can work seamlessly with digital media content created on a PC. This innovative new patent pending technology is co-developed and supported by Microsoft Corporation and Matsu****a Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic).

HighMAT stands for High Performance Media Access Technology. This technology makes it easy to save personal digital music, video and photo collections created on your PC to recordable discs such as CD/RW media. More importantly, HighMAT ensures that consumers can easily play back that content on consumer electronics devices such as car stereos, DVD players, and CD players.

HighMAT is fully backwards compatible with existing data CDs and devices supporting the ISO9660 standard. Panasonic, Microsoft and Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd will adopt this new technology for use in their future products. The HighMAT Specification will also be available for easy licensing by other consumer electronics companies and software developers at www.HighMAT.com .


The benefits are clear!
Today when consumers want to create their own digital media collections on CDs or other physical formats, there are a variety of inconsistent ways that CD and DVD players read this data. Each interface for finding media and the viewable information available like playlists, music metadata, and folders with photos or videos varies depending on what each device supports. In many cases this creates confusion for the user regarding how to find the music, photos or videos they want. In addition with large collections of music and videos it can sometimes take several minutes for the DVD or CD player to "read" what music or video is available.

HighMAT solves these problems by creating a standard way for PCs to structure digital media on physical formats and for consumer devices to read these discs. This will make startup times for data CDs and other physical formats faster and give consumers a consistent, easy navigation experience across a broad range of consumer electronic devices.