MUMBAI: Imation India, which develops and markets offerings that enable people to capture, save and enjoy digital information has announced the introduction of a series of new digital home theatre entertainment products.

Imation’s range of multimedia players support high definition video output (up-scaling to 1080i) for better picture quality and standard 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch hard disk drive (HDD) for the ever-increasing storage demand for digital contents.

Said Imation India head – sales and marketing Sandeep Popli, "Unlike other external hard drives available in the market, Imation multimedia hard disk player not only operates as a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed SATA external hard disk drive but also allows the user to browse and play back the entire media library directly through a TV or home theatre system.”

Imation Multi Media 2.5” Hard Disk Player is USB 2.0 compliant. Users can download video through PC and immediately playback on TV. It comes with features like digital photo viewer with thumbnail preview, play DVD folder, supports complete DVD function including DVD menu, video up-scaling for improved resolution of up to 720P, high-definition JPEG playback for images in true resolution, creation of playlists on computer, straightforward keypad control, most powerful Xivd subtitle display feature, supports both FAT32 and NTFS file systems. The hard disk player comes in 250 GB, 320 GB and 500 GB capacities.

Imation Multi Media 3.5” Hard Disk Player has an HDMI connection and allows for video up-scaling to 1080i. Besides all the features present in the 2.5” version, it features music slideshow and the most powerful DivX subtitle display feature. Imation Multi Media 3.5” Hard Disk Player comes in 320 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB and 1 KB capacities.

Imation Media HDD Pro, which the company claims is the most advanced and feature-packed multimedia player in the series, allows users to browse content with preview and play back multimedia files in USB external storage devices.

Besides the features of the 2.5” and 3.5” multimedia hard disk players, it can playback multimedia files via SAMBA protocol, supports AV-in recording and has transcode software for extended codec support. It also supports music ID3v1, M3U playlists and USB WiFi Dongle (Realtek RTL8187B 802.11g).The Imation Media HDD Pro comes in 500 GB and 1 KB capacities.