AMD's Live! PCs share the same functionalities as Intel's Viiv platform, offering special interest content available to all users of the platform. AMD does not plan to replace consumer electronic devices at home but hopes to blend the PC into existing home set-ups. AMD's Live! will act as the digital nerve center via 5 crucial applications - synchronizing and streaming live or prerecorded audio-visual content, a compression algorithm at a 10:1 ratio with minimal quality loss (10%), dummy-proof home network management, remote access, and automatic backup of content to a secure online server.More than 40 system manufacturers will offer Live-branded systems from this month onwards. Among the stalwarts are HP, Gateway, Acer, and Alienware. The hardware and software requirements are rather rigid, with each Live! system containing at the very least a dual-core AM2-based Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor that runs on Microsoft's Windows XP MCE operating system (upgradeable to Windows Vista), 1GB RAM, a SATA hard drive and a DVD burner. Strangely enough, a TV tuner and HDMI support with HDCP are stated as just recommendations.
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