HighMAT (High Performance Media Access Technologies) is a media format jointly developed by Panasonic Corporation (Matsushita) and

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for personal CD authoring with music and photo content.

Support

Software to author HighMAT CDs transparently in

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, as well as a Windows XP player for HighMAT content, can be downloaded from the official site. HighMAT technology has been discontinued by Microsoft.Update for HighMAT support in the Windows XP CD Writing Wizard
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Features

Burning photos and music content onto CD generally involves organizing the photos/music into directories. Since a CD can generally hold up to some 700

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of data, this can mean over a hundred songs or thousands of photographs. Most stand-alone

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players today currently support playback of

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and JPEG content, but the internal processing capacity of these units tends to make browsing large content libraries directly from CD very slow and tedious. HighMAT allows these stand-alone players to read lists of images and music content from the media faster, as well as providing a more convenient navigation system.

References

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