Escient was a division of
D&M Holdings, which manufactured high-end, centralized, internet-connected home
AV equipment. The Escient trademark was registered with the (now defunct)
Digital Networks North America.
Escient's main product lines were movie managers, music managers, media players, and other peripherals. The FireBall brand provides up to a 750
GB hard drive for central music storage. It has the ability control as many as 2000
DVD
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s or
CDs through a
graphical user interface
The GUI ( "UI" by itself is still usually pronounced . or ), graphical user interface, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and audio indicator such as primary notation, inst ...
. Escient's home media servers are supplemented with networked digital remote players for whole-house audio.
The FireBall-PC software runs on Mac and Windows computers to share media collections throughout the home. The wireless web pad can browse the internet, stream audio from the FireBall web servers, access the FireBall servers remotely via
802.11b
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wireless networking
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes.
Wireless networking is a method by which homes, telecommunications networks and business installations avoid the costly process of introducing c ...
, and replace the FireBall
TV interface.
In April, 2010,
D&M Holdings, Inc. discontinued the Escient brand.
[D&M Holdings Press Release ]
See also
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Gracenote
Gracenote, Inc. is a company owned by Nielsen Holdings that provides music, video and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies, worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Ba ...
References
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External links
Escient websiteD&M Holdings website
Consumer electronics