SkipJam iMedia Center adds iPod support

SkipJam announced today support for the iPod, providing docking directly to the SkipJam iMedia Center. Using Firewire or USB 2.0, users can connect their iPods directly to any iMedia Center or to any iMedia enabled PC and immediately play music, photos and video throughout their home. The SkipJam iMedia support for the iPod also allows SkipJam users to record audio or video content directly onto the iPod Storage, creating a plug'n'go recording solution which records shows directly onto the iPod drives for portability.

Users plug in the iPod and the iMedia system automatically recognizes it. No additional steps are required by the user, and there's no need to "copy" content to or from the iPod. The iPod, once plugged into an iMedia Center, becomes a portable storage extension, and the iPod hard drive can be accessed and played from any TV or Stereo in the home.

For example, the SkipJam - iPod connection would allow a user to dock their iPod Video directly to a SkipJam iMedia Center or to any PC on the home network. Then pick up the iPod in the morning, fully charged, and full of the previous night's TV content ready for viewing on the train or during lunch.

Alternately, an iPod Nano user in California could dock anywhere on their SkipJam iMedia network, and pick up the iPod the following morning complete with recordings from Internet Broadcasts of New York's WNYC.

"The SkipJam iMedia Center is a universal audio video hub, with broad support for interconnecting a wide variety of media and formats," said Michael Spilo, President of SkipJam. "We plan to continue to add functionality to support a wide array of products and platforms."

HomeView remote downloading

SkipJam's HomeView feature allows users to remotely access their entire home multimedia system, viewing any device or pre-recorded content remotely. The HomeView feature has also been enhanced to support the iPod. The new feature allows users to remotely convert content on the fly to iPod format and to stream any of their home multimedia devices or pre-recorded multimedia content directly to an iPod connected to their away from home PC.

This feature allows users to access high quality home recordings remotely, and download directly from home to the iPod for later viewing.

The SkipJam iMedia Center to iPod interface software is scheduled for release in January, and will be available to existing SkipJam iMedia Center users as an upgrade free of charge.

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