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Digital Fidelity Announces License Agreement with Naim (27/6/2006)

CEDIA UK Expo 2006

Naim launch a range of Music Servers powered by the DigiFiTM platform from Digital Fidelity

Digital Fidelity, London based content platform specialists, have are delighted to announce that they have entered into a substantial License Agreement with Naim Audio. Their software is licensed to OEMs for the manufacture of traditional and/or 'virtual' music servers and Naim Audio chose the DigiFiTM platform on which to build their groundbreaking range of true audiophile servers. Naim will launch 4 DigiFi-powered servers at CEDIA Expo 2006 at the Excel Centre in London Docklands, to complement their NaimNet IP based multiroom system to be launched simultaneously at CEDIA.

"Naim's credentials in the field of high-end audio are without question, and we are delighted to have been selected to partner such an esteemed audiophile brand," commented John Booth, Managing Director of Digital Fidelity.

"We chose Digital Fidelity for a number of reasons" indicated Alan Ainslie, Head of the recently established Custom Install Division at Naim. "We were looking for a partner with whom we could build a relationship and where we could play a significant part in bringing ideas to the table. The DigiFiTM platform was originally conceived with in-built flexibility from the bottom up, and this has allowed us to select the functionality we needed to create true Naim products, not clones, and achieve our critical brand values at all levels of product design and user interfaces. We are very proud of having a significant input into specifying and shaping Naim Remote Access, Naim Remote Sync and the development of the Naim Extended Music Database"

"DigiFiTM also seamlessly integrates the very rich data now available from AMG which enabled us to create the Naim Extended Music Database" said Ainslie, "this is a key selling point for our Classical and Jazz customers and a great opportunity for differentiation by our dealers"

While the DigiFiTM platform can operate as a traditional music server, enhancements add the ability to integrate content stored on iPods and other USB removable devices into one consolidated library with the music stored on the server itself. Furthermore, DigiFiTM also scans for music on shared drives in the home environment and present this in the music library for playback. DigiFiTM does this intelligently and pro-actively without the need for intrusive software agents on the source PC or drive. "This consumer is becoming very aware of the dangers of their PC becoming clogged up with software elements they don't want which at worst open up their PC to external attack - it was very important to us that the scanning elements of DigiFiTM worked completely independently" stressed Booth. Multiple streams from all these sources can be created and played out simultaneously.

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