Cirgon's Encore™ is the first affordable home entertainment media server for easily managing and enjoying all of your digital media including photos, music, and movies. No PC or Mac required! Now anyone can have full control over their digital media without being an audio-visual expert.
Encore connects to your home theater system providing crisp, bright images on your HDTV at full 1080i resolution. Play music on your stereo system in 7.1 digital surround sound from your collection of digital music stored on Encore.
Based on the Linux operating system means Encore uses lower power, weighs less, and provides stable operation. Weighing only 9 pounds and consuming only 35 watts of power, Encore is easily installed in any Home Theater System.
Photos How do you enjoy the photos you shoot on vacations and family events? Bring your photos off your computer or camera and into your life with Encore. Now you can enjoy all your photos at anytime with a click of the remote control.
Are your photos still in your camera or locked up on a website or your computer? Getting your digital photos from your camera onto Encore is easy ... connect your camera or flash card reader, select IMPORT, and Encore does the rest. It even asks you if you want to make a backup DVD copy of your photos!
Easily create beautiful slideshows with music and narration in minutes using the SmartSlide™ software. Create a slideshow DVD using the built in burner to share your photo slide show with music AND narration with your friends and family.
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Music
Tired of locating your favorite CD? One click will copy any CD in high fidelity with album information to the hard drive using our Digital Music Extraction™ software. Your CD contents will be placed in the digital library, with album art under the proper genre to easily organize your music. The album art will be displayed when playing your favorite selections.
Design custom playlists including any track from any album to create collections for a special mood or occasion.
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Movies
Watch DVDs on the integrated DVD player at 1080i viewing resolution. Movie clips from most cameras or camcorders can be easily stored and viewed.
Add a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device on the Ethernet network to store your DVD collection.* Play any movie with a click of the remote ... no more hunting for the right DVD!
*DVDs must be digitized on your computer and copied to the NAS. Encore does not rip DVDs.
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Internet Radio
Listen to Sirius, X-M and last.FM.com radio over the Internet using your online account. Encore will display the album art for music played from last.FM.com
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Network
Encore supports full networking to integrate into an existing home network to easily share files between your computer and the server over the network.
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All of this is done with an easy-to-use, custom remote control in the comfort of your living room, family room or home theater.
Click here to see screenshots of the Encore user interface.
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