Microsoft updates digital media package
C|Net | at | by Mike
Microsoft started selling an updated version of its Plus Digital Media Edition entertainment software on Tuesday that now lets people create digital-photo slideshows on the PC and watch them on a DVD player. The software, which sells for $19.95, is designed for people using Windows XP who want more features for editing and playing media files such as digital photos, music and home movies.
The most prominently promoted new feature is Plus Photo Story Two, which lets people create a digital photo story--complete with music or narration--copy it to CD, and play it back on most DVD players. Using Microsoft's video compression technology, Windows Media 9 Series, the software also lets people shrink the same slideshow and e-mail it to friends or relatives.