Realistic Resolution "Better Than Theater "

Owing to ‘Window Media Player 9’ to be launched by Microsoft (MS) by October 1, the related industries are expected to undergo a substantial change.

▽Window Media Player?〓Software which see a movie or listen to music by Internet. When the service provider offers the movie or music through internet like a broadcasting company, netizens can see the movie or listen to music with their computer.

Window Media Player has occupied 90% market share in the domestic market. However, it is not actually Korean type. On the basis US where the high speed internet has been generalized like Korea, it was manufactured to operate at the low data transmission speed. Users have complained about a small screen and the frequent disconnection. However, Media Player 9 provides the various special functions and enjoys the multimedia same as DVD in Online. It will bring about the big change in the internet culture.

▽The Best Sound and Movie 〓Function closed to the resolution and tone quality of DVD. Netizens can enjoy the side screen and Dolby video 5.1 Surround sound through Internet. That is, when installing 4 speakers on every side and placing ‘woofer’ in front, the netizens can enjoy the sound effect like seeing the movie in the theater. Because it receives and sends the some data to the small high speed memory device (cache) in advance, it will have the effect to transmit the large capacity data rapidly. It also can move the movie of DVD to PC. It reads MPEG-2 file of DVD by DVD-ROM and then convert it into window media type. Because users can store it to the hard disk and return the borrowed DVD, they can continue to see it on PC. When copying the music to CD and store to media player, the function is to take the CD cover and songs automatically through searching the internet.

▽Changed Room Culture 〓Ahn Jin-Hyeok, an assistant manager of Portal Business Dept., Hanafos.COM which has been making the movie service using the media player 9 in October said “the classification of Internet movie or video DVD will disappear.”

Media Player 9 will change a room culture as well as PC. Developed by MS, the operating system for the high resolution TV, ‘Window XP Media Center’ was designed to see the movie and listen to music through online and do the internet surfing with TV. When inserting the set top box which installs ‘Media Center’ to TV, DVD player is not actually required. Samsung Electronics and Hewlett-Packard will launch the set top box in December. There will be the PC upgrade boom in the industry owing to Media Player 9. It is because the large capacity hard disk of 100GB is required to save several MPEG-2 movies, and there must be the latest graphic card and sound card for the high resolution and DOLBY digital.

Besides, internet service companies have criticized MS for expanding ‘.NET’ base through media player because MS designed the media player to operate only in ‘.NET’.

Media Player 9 can be downloaded in www.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/download. When the portal companies start the service for Media Player 9 at the end of October, netizens can see a high-resolution movie.

Seong-Yub Ra cpu@donga.com