Combining state-of-the-art hardware from Creative Labs with a range of top
Microsoft titles, Sound Blaster Multimedia Family will transform a standard PC into
a multi-purpose computer for the whole family. Including leading home
productivity, entertainment and education titles, the package offers value to every
member of the family.
"As consumers' confidence in technology increases, many families are realising
they don't have to spend £1500 on a new PC to get the system they need," said
Dave Askew, Creative Labs' UK sales manager. "A two year old PC can take on
a new lease of life with one of our Family kits - it's a low cost route to state-of-
the-art home computing."
The kit includes:
Software
Technical Details
Creative 8X IDE CD-ROM drive is designed with a patent-pending feature that
enables it to detect the optimum speed the CD-ROM requires for the smoothest
possible playback. It also includes CD-EXTRA support that reads CDs with
digital audio and data. The Blaster CD 8X delivers a typical access rate of 230ms,
a 1200KB transfer rate and features 256KB memory buffer. Its IDE interface is
best suited to handle the high-speed transfer rates of 8X drives, allowing users to
obtain optimum performance from all software titles.
About Creative ...
Creative Technology was founded in 1981 and is based in Singapore. The
company's subsidiaries include Creative Labs in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan
and the US. The European head office is based at Ruscombe, near Twyford in
the UK. In January 1994, Creative opened its technical support group in Dublin,
which provides telephone support to French, German, English, Italian,
Scandinavian and Spanish speaking customers across Europe. Creative's stock is
traded on the NASDAQ exchange, with sales in FY 1995 of $1202.3 million - a
83% increase on 1994.
Hardware
Sound Blaster 32 Plug and Play is a wave table audio card suitable for a wide
variety of multimedia applications. The card utilizes EMU8000-based wave table
technology which generates real instrument, rather than synthesised sounds.
The card also features Creative's 3D Stereo Enhancement technology.
Creative Technology, Ltd., is the world's leading provider of advanced
multimedia solutions for personal computers, including sound, graphics,
communications and video conferencing products. The company's Sound Blaster
technology has been accepted as the worldwide standard sound platform for
PCs, and the company's global distribution network is the most extensive in the
multimedia industry. Creative is focused on enhancing the overall user
experience by providing powerful, enabling, high value technology for the mass
market.
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Creative Labs, Inc.