Escient was a division of
D&M Holdings
D+M Group, formerly known as DMGlobal and D&M Holdings, is a Japanese corporation that owned several audio and video brands. It was formed in 2002 from the merger of Denon and Marantz. It had acquired several other companies since that time. Prio ...
, which manufactured high-end, centralized, internet-connected home
AV equipment. The Escient trademark was registered with the (now defunct)
Digital Networks North America.
Escient's main product lines were movie managers, music managers, media players, and other peripherals. The FireBall brand provides up to a 750
GB hard drive for central music storage. It has the ability control as many as 2000
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...
s or
CDs through a
graphical user interface
A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows user (computing), users to human–computer interaction, interact with electronic devices through Graphics, graphical icon (computing), icons and visual indicators such ...
. Escient's home media servers are supplemented with networked digital remote players for whole-house audio.
The FireBall-PC software runs on Mac and Windows computers to share media collections throughout the home. The wireless web pad can browse the internet, stream audio from the FireBall web servers, access the FireBall servers remotely via
802.11b wireless networking
A wireless network is a computer network that uses wireless data connections between network nodes. Wireless networking allows homes, telecommunications networks, and business installations to avoid the costly process of introducing cables in ...
, and replace the FireBall
TV interface.
In April, 2010,
D&M Holdings, Inc. discontinued the Escient brand.
[D&M Holdings Press Release ]
See also
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Gracenote
Gracenote, Inc. is a company and service that provides music, video, and sports metadata and automatic content recognition (ACR) technologies to entertainment services and companies worldwide. Formerly CDDB ("Compact Disc Data Base"), Gracenote ...
References
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External links
Escient websiteD&M Holdings website
Consumer electronics