Escient
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Escient, a division of D&M Holdings
, manufactured high-end, centralized, internet-connected home AV equipment. The Escient trademark is registered with 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
s or CDs through a graphical user interface
. Escients 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, and replace the FireBall TV interface.
In April, 2010, D&M Holdings, Inc. discontinued the Escient brand
D&M Holdings
D&M Holdings is a Japanese corporation that owns several audio and video brands. It was formed in 2002 from the merger of Denon and Marantz. It has acquired several other companies since that time. In 2008 it was acquired by K. K. BCJ-2, a Tokyo corporation owned by investment funds advised...
, manufactured high-end, centralized, internet-connected home AV equipment. The Escient trademark is registered with Digital Networks North America
Digital Networks North America
Digital Networks North America, Inc. is a Delaware, USA Corporation, incorporated in 2003.DNNA's headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.It is a division of D&M Holdings and supports the former Escient, Rio and replayTV brands...
Escient's main product lines were movie managers, music managers, media players, and other peripherals. The FireBall brand provides up to a 750 GB
Gigabyte
The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...
hard drive for central music storage. It has the ability control as many as 2000 DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
s or CDs through a graphical user interface
Gui
Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...
. Escients 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, and replace the FireBall TV interface.
In April, 2010, D&M Holdings, Inc. discontinued the Escient brand