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Passive Technologies Unveils the 'lifeStation hd' HD Combo Media Center (4/1/2008)

The HD format war is over with a Passive Technologies Media Center lifeStation hd

Passive Technologies unveil the lifeStation hd, a media server designed to combine the functionality of the Windows Media Center with the design and quality of high end HiFi equipment offering an immersive audiophile quality experience for all your Standard and High Definition media.

For Passive its all about being able to handle any media anytime. Whether you want to play a CD, a DVD, a DivX, or an Mpeg ,you donāt want to have to worry. With both BluRay and HDDVD playback Passive have ensured that you have a fully future proof box. With support for True HD sound and DTS aswell you can be guaranteed to get the best out of all your HD media for years to come.

For audiophiles there is the custom mCrystal soundboard providing superb analogue and digital outs, bespoke power cleaning circuits, high quality gold connectors as standard and an aluminium chassis with excellent thermal and non-magnetic properties for superb quality crystal clear sound. For those who want the same attention to detail for their cinema experience, Passive has included a combo HD DVD and BluRay player and onboard HDCP to ensure HD enjoyment, DVI and HDMI connections, 5.1 surround sound, true HD sound, and the very best fully tested decoders and codecs giving the same detail and sharpness as top of the range DVD players.

One unique feature of the lifeStation range in the Media Center market, is that the lifeStation is completely silent. Their machined aluminium chassis and their own Dynachill 3 technology means that heat from the powerful processors is dispersed passively instead of needing noisy fans. The new lifeStation hd, designed for use with Passiveās external storage solutions for multiroom installs, also uses the latest solid state hard drives which have no moving parts so that even the last whisper of a spinning hard drive is removed.

Passive also understand that people do not want to spend a lot of time configuring their own equipment, they donāt sell you a blank machine with a copy of Windows and hope you know how to get it to work. Passive have spent over a year fine tuning Windows to ensure you get superb reliability and functionality from your digital entertainment right out of the box.

Managing Director David Simpson says, "You can get on with the job of enjoying your media rather than spending hours testing the best decoder or installing your own potentially virus riddled codec packs." The end user has zero chance of getting a non configured box working as well as a lifeStation. Passive have tried to think of everything, offering integration with existing iTunes libraries, allowing viewing of any reigon dvds for worldwide customers, auto backup technology to ensure you never lose data, and remote support as standard. Additional storage comes in the form of the lifeServer and all solutions come ready to expand across the home.

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