Meedio Celebrates 10,000th Member With Giveaway Of Its Digital Media Software
Meedio LLC today announced the 10,000th user of its online forums just weeks before the scheduled release of their new digital media software. Meedio is the descendent of the freeware application myHTPC, whose strong online community provides technical support, helpful discussions, and even application plug-ins to other community members. To celebrate the continued growth of this community Meedio will be giving away free copies of its digital media software to five of its members drawn at random. In addition, Meedio will be offering a discount of up to $30 to anyone who is registered in their forums before the day of the software release.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) June 21, 2004 – Meedio LLC today announced the 10,000th registered user of its online forums just weeks before the scheduled release of their new digital media software under the Meedio brand name. To celebrate the continued growth of Meedio LLC's user base the company will be giving away free copies of its software to five of its members drawn at random.
Meedio is the descendent of the freeware application myHTPC, which provides a television interface to digital videos, music, photos, and other media stored on users personal computers. myHTPC has been downloaded over 500,000 times in just under a year and is championed by many community members who provide technical support, helpful discussions, and even application plug-ins to the entire community. Those early adopters also provided a long list of feature requests to Meedio Founder and CTO, Pablo Pissanetzky, who has continuously had a strong presence on the forums in his drive to create the best digital lifestyle management application available. Based on these requirements Meedio went back to the drawing board and developed an entirely new platform with even greater functionality, customization abilities, and extensibility. This new software will be released under the Meedio brand in July directly from the companys website at http://www.meedio.com/. In addition to the free giveaways announced today, Meedio is showing thanks to its user community by offering a discount of up to $30 to anyone who is registered in their forums before the day of the software release.
Meedio is comprised of a bundle of two products: Meedio Essentials and Meedio TV. Together these programs provide a convenient remote-control and television interface to digital media, games, weather, PC documents, and other applications. With user-customizable themes and a standards-based Software Development Kit, Meedio provides the ultimate extensible platform for the digital home.
Meedio Essentials includes the following features, all available through an attractive TV interface:
- Media players for DVDs, CDs, videos, music files, and Internet radio
- Photo albums and slideshows
- Media Management - Organize, browse, search and play a variety of digital media files, games, and applications
- Weather conditions, forecasts, and animated weather images for locations worldwide
- File Management - ability to view, copy, paste, delete, and run files on your hard drive or any network drive from an on-screen menu
- Group features into multi-level, password-protected, customizable menus
- Works on existing computers with support for most recent hardware
- Multiple customizable themes
- Parental Control
Meedio TV is a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) application that lets users watch, pause, fast forward, rewind, schedule, and replay recordings of TV broadcasts using its built-in Electronic Program Guide (EPG). It will be the first application of its kind to support both analog and DVB signals.
Meedio is offering the $30 discount for the Meedio bundle and a $20 discount for either Meedio Essentials or Meedio TV when purchased individually. The discount is being extended to all members of Meedios community forums who register at http://myHTPC.net/forum/ before the products begin selling in July.
About Meedio:
Meedio LLC provides interactive interfaces to digital home technologies such as home theaters, entertainment PCs, and home automation systems. Meedio provides a robust software foundation, a suite of plug-in applications, a customizable user interface, an open database and open standards-based APIs. Meedio sells direct to consumers, through distributors, and to OEMs who embed Meedio in consumer electronics, home theater, and home automation solutions.
Copyright 2004 Meedio LLC. All rights reserved. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.
For additional information, contact:
Meedio Press Relations
press@meedio.com
http://www.meedio.com/
(877) MEEDIO-1 x704
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