Time for my first post of a CES press release, more details on the [TMCS] as I interviewed Mike Seamans from Life|ware
LIFE|WARE LAUNCHES THEIR FIRST ENTRY LEVEL LIFE|MEDIA SERVERS, INCLUDING the LMS-150 WITH DUAL CABLECARD TUNERS
With their first direct to consumer offering, Life|ware plants the seed for a Life|ware home.
Las Vegas, NV – CES 2008, Central Plaza 4 – January 8, 2008 – Today at CES, Life|ware™ launched their new entry level LMS-100 and LMS-150 Life|media™ Servers.Life|ware, the industry pioneer in Windows® Media Center-based digital entertainment and home automation, is now offering two media servers direct to consumers to provide end users with media servers that meet their personal entertainment needs.
The Life|media LMS-100 is the starting point for an all-digital future. A true workhorse with both the power and the storage to gracefully manage all of your digital media – pictures, videos, TV shows, movies, music and more in up to five zones in your home. The LMS-100 is priced at $2500 and features the following:
CPU – 2.33GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor
RAM – 2GB
Storage – 500GB
DVD Drive
Tuners – 2 ATSC, 2 NTSC, 1 FM
Graphics Card – NVidia 8400
OS – Windows® Vista® Home Premium operating system
With the Life|media LMS-150 consumers can up the ante to HD for receiving and recording high definition cable programming. With dual internal CableCARD-enabled tuners, consumers can simultaneously access multiple forms of broadcast content, including 2 live high definition digital cable feeds. The LMS-150 is $3500 and features:
CPU – 2.33 GHz Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor
RAM – 2GB
Storage – 1 TB, RAID 0
DVD Drive
Tuners – 2 CableCARD™
Graphics Card – NVidia 8400
OS – Windows® Vista® Home Premium operating system
Life|media is a powerful Media Center PC optimized for complete digital entertainment and comprehensive home automation. With premium construction, benchmark internal components and the look and feel of a high-end A/V receiver, Life|media provides storage for digital music, movies, pictures, and recorded TV, plus instant access to Life|ware’s complete home control via your home network.
“We are planting the seeds for Life|ware systems to be in every home. And we’re making the LMS-100 and LMS-150 readily available. This is the first time we’ve also decided to sell direct to consumer via our website,” stated Life|ware’s VP of Marketing Mike Seamons. “Here at CES we are showing how this is no longer a future concept. Consumers can simplify and manage their homes. Using a Life|media as the brain of your system, consumers can be watching a movie and as the doorbell rings see who is at the door. This technology is here now. “
Life|media strives for the perfect balance between an elegant A/V style back panel and the open flexibility of using standard PC industry components. This patent pending MediaPlate™ design makes Life|media the most upgradable entertainment console on the market.
The Life|media Server line includes 16 models, ranging from the new set-top Life|media LMS-100, a $2,500 entry-level media server to a four-rack unit, ultra high-performance edition Life|media LMS-754 which retails for $15,500. All models run the Microsoft® Windows® Vista® OS and offer a range of Intel® chipsets and processors.
The Life|media LMS-754 Media Server has been recognized as a 2008 Innovations Award Winner at CES in the Integrated Home Systems category. CES attendees will be able to see Life|ware’s LMS- 754 media server in the Innovations Design and Engineering Awards Showcase at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.
For the month of January only, consumers can go to www.life-ware.com and start their own Life|ware system.
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