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	Microsoft Highlights Media Features in Vista

	Microsoft showed off Vista's media capabilities at NAB, including both production and media delivery features. And particularly, high definition and high fidelity. With Windows Media Center , Microsoft hopes Vista will be the platform that users use for on-demand video and audio content to the "digital home." Microsoft says the ground-up engineering of Vista focused on audio and video delivery with high performance, stability and fidelity. For third party software vendors, Windows Vista includes a new multimedia API that provides application isolation, ensuring that content and plug-ins cannot be modified by other applications, and incorporating reusable components (which reduces the need for custom filters). Also, support for low-latency audio processing and DirectX Video Acceleration hardware acceleration, increased resilience to system stress, give better video scaling and color fidelity, as well as greater application functionality since, says Microsoft, the new API will reduce development time for software vendors. Some improvements offered with Vista include glitch resistance for more seamless playback (Vista allows prioritizing of audio and video processes), high fidelity with 32-bit floating by default in the audio and support for up to 144dB signal-to-noise ratio with bit-for bit sample level accuracy, says the company. Two other features are interesting, too – device roles and per-application volume. Three device roles will be predefined in Vista : general, music and movies, and communication. Specific applications deliver output content through specific devices, i.e., e-mail alerts through a headset or music playback through high-fidelity surround-sound speakers. Per-application volume allows Vista to differentiate sounds, such as differentiating how system sounds are delivered versus sounds from applications.

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