Indigita Steps Into the Future with Mitsubishi Via Indigita's AVHDD

Sept. 26, 2002--Indigita Corp. announced its participation with Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America Inc. at CEDIA EXPO to demonstrate the interoperability of Home Entertainment Networking components over FireWire (IEEE 1394).

Indigita will be introducing the first customizable high definition (HD) Audio/Video Hard Disk Drive (AVHDD) providing as much as 34 hours of HD or 136 hours of standard definition recording in a home entertainment system. The FireWire AVHDD brings expandable digital storage capabilities to home entertainment components such as digital televisions, AV receivers, DVCRs, and digital cable boxes.

The AVHDD allows consumers to simply connect to a FireWire network to manage and record digital content for their personal libraries. Additional AVHDDs can also be added into the FireWire network, when desired, to expand music and video libraries.

"The Indigita powered AVHDD is an ideal platform to show the advantages of expandable digital storage in a home networking environment," said Robert Perry, vice president of marketing, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America. "The ability to record and play high-quality digital content within the home from a network library source is the solution that home entertainment consumers are seeking."

"We are very excited that Mitsubishi has recognized and adopted the FireWire architecture for home entertainment networking," stated Mel Gable, CEO and president, Indigita. "We believe Indigita's AVHDD is the step into the future that will give the home users expandable storage libraries accessible over FireWire."

The AVHDD is truly a network attached storage device that is sharable, unlike other disk technology currently available. FireWire provides consumers the ability to broadcast to multiple digital televisions or to record programs for later viewing.

Indigita's AVHDD encrypts data over the FireWire network as well as on the hard drive so copyrighted content is securely protected throughout the network and within the box. Unlike DVD, this technology uses dynamic key rotation encryption to secure the copy-protected material, a major concern of the Motion Picture Association of America. The copy protection management uses Digital Transmission Copy Protection (DTCP) 5C encryption methodology endorsed by several studios such as Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures and Universal Studios.

Indigita's AVHDD conforms to the existing basic AV command specifications and can optionally support the HAVi Level 2 Graphical User Interface. While this product is a step into the future, it still supports existing digital AV commands used in earlier set-top boxes. Compliance to these standards allows interoperability among multi-vendor equipment on the network and an easy-to-use graphical interface to operate these components. This HAVi graphical interface is menu driven and allows for selection of programs, stored contents and operation of FireWire components.

Meet the future with the Mitsubishi Digital Televisions and Indigita's AVHDD, the simple solution to home entertainment shared network storage, being demonstrated at CEDIA EXPO (www.cedia.net/expo) in Booth #227, Sept. 27, 28 and 29, 2002.