HighMAT is a media format jointly developed by Matsushita and Microsoft for personal CD authoring with music and photo content. Currently, burning photos and music content onto CD generally involves organizing the photos/music into directories. Since a CD can generally hold up to 700 megabytes of data, this can mean over a hundred songs or thousands of photographs. Most stand-alone DVD players today currently support playback of MP3 and JPEG content but the internal processing capacity of these units often make browsing large libraries of content off of CD extremely slow and often very tedious. HighMAT allows these stand-alone players to read lists of images and music content from the media faster as well as provide a much more comfortable navigation system.

Software to author HighMAT CDs transparently in Windows XP as well as a Windows XP player for HighMAT content can be downloaded from the official site.

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