NewSoft Unveils Presto! WMS (Wireless Multimedia System)

HANNOVER, GERMANY (March 10, 2005) –NewSoft, a leading provider of innovative business and consumer software, announced its latest wireless system for enterprise users, Presto! WMS (Wireless Multimedia System) at CeBIT 2005. By adopting Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g technology, Presto! WMS gives users more freedom to broadcast screen-captured images or MPEG 1/2 files from a PC/notebook to many PCs/notebooks or hardware receiver adapters connected to projectors. Presto! WMS allows presenting content on a screen more than 15 frames per second on average for 11a/g; thanks to NewSoft’s high performance algorithm for detecting differential regions of a screen, users can play in real-time PowerPoint files, including animations & video clips. This innovation indicates the high-tech application that allows users to simultaneously broadcast images and video clips, making their presentations more brilliant, and they can still transmit high-quality videos to larger and better screens when using video transmission mode.

“NewSoft’s Presto! WMS explores the new approach for education and e-learning applications. For instance, its portable capability lets students receive the same content anywhere in the classroom with their own PCs or notebooks through ‘1-to-Many’ wireless transmission,” says James Li, President of NewSoft. “Via wireless LAN transmission, Presto! WMS is especially leveraged on education training and corporate presentations, enabling lecturers or speakers to control and broadcast information and materials by combining images and small video clips at the same time. Participants in the meeting can not only receive content from presenters, but also take notes and check related data on the same notebook or PC as well. Users can easily search information provided by senders through the channel scanning method and communication protocol without worrying about wireless parameters and settings, and they can also record or save the presentation materials to a DVD disk.”

Presto! WMS serves both purposes of providing presentations and entertainments, and its easy set-up allows users to configure a wireless environment simply in a few steps. At the same time, it provides real-time screen-captured images, graphics and video clips that users can play and broadcast in their slideshows or presentations, combined with other video clips and images, smoothly. Newsoft’s Presto! WMS supports MPEG 1/2 file broadcasting via wireless transmission, and to ensure good transmission quality, MPEG 2 will be real-time trans-coded into the transport stream. In addition, to create a user-friendly interface, Presto! WMS also supports remote control that provides quick and easy operation. Multiple channels on the same frequency could be transmitted to different receivers with the installation of an external DVB-T receiver device, and with NewSoft’s Presto! PVR that offers time-shifting, recording and burning functions, users are able to view and edit AV/TV contents on their PCs or notebooks anywhere.

About NewSoft Technology Corporation
NewSoft Technology Corporation connects creativity with its array of award-winning image, video, DVD, and WLAN software. Focusing on integrating hardware and software so it can provide the best solutions for its worldwide partners and customers, NewSoft is well known for its advanced technology, innovative design and diverse product lines. More information on NewSoft Technology Corporation can be found on the Web at http://www.newsoft.eu.com