Hi Mat CDs??

[posol]

well, i just went to burn an mp3 disc... haven't burned one in a while.

via windows xp's burn thinggee... i get a pop up saying, do you want to burn this cd using himat technology?

i click no because i don't know wtf it is... or how it got there (perphaps windows update?)

so, umm... yeah- WTF is it?

 

[BodyDroppedNikes]

i just hooked up my raggedy old cd burner and installed NERO Burning ROM v5.0 and it works hella good. try something like that? oh and i am also running WinXP

 

[TurboMirage]

nero owns.

no idea what himat is. try it out anyway.

 

[posol]

i have no problems with software i already have... no need to get another.

im just curious what this format is.

it says "for some new players and hardware" and nothing more...

 

[JDMilan]

have no idea.

 

[zaneithan]

might be better quality but takes up more space?

 

[unsivil_audio]

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 Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic).

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...cs/highmat.aspx

 

[DarkHand]

Haven't looked into it at all, but it smells like some sort of DRM/copy prevention to me

EDIT: Ok now I spent a good 30 seconds looking into it... It's some proprietary formatting/naming convention for playing different types of media on different players.
It's totally useless.