Digital
Theater Professional has many powerful features and the ability
to support an infinite number of expansion plug-ins.
Continue
reading to learn more about these features and their potential
to change how you interact with your home theater equipment
forever!
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Digital
Theater Pro boasts a fully interactive graphical
user interface. The menus, options, and
display constantly change to suit the task
at hand.
Unlike
traditional non-interactive interfaces,
Digital Theater's interface allows you and
the program to interface with real time
events in a natural manner.
Digital
Theater supports touch-screen display units
as a replacement for keyboard & mouse
input. These can be touch-screen LCDs, touch-screen
monitors, tablet PCs, or any other touch-screen
control device.
The power behind Digital Theater
is its open architecture plug-in system. Using
this system, plug-ins can be developed that
allow Digital Theater to control any controllable
device in existence.
Unlike
traditional plug-in systems where a plug-in
add-on increases the power of a program
by a single feature, Digital Theater plug-ins
increase its power exponentially as each
plug-in is capable of harnessing and using
the power of each previously installed and
newly installed plug-in.
Digital Theater Pro allows
you to create and use your own windows. While
extremely these windows are extremely simple
to use and design they are also extremely
powerful. Each "button" in the window
has the ability to harness all of the power
of previously installed plug-ins... essentially
allowing you to do almost anything you want
or can dream of!
Macros, allow you to easily
string together an unlimited number of commands
(any command that Digital Theater can execute)
and have them all execute in order with the
touch of a single button. This is a very useful
tool when automating a large number of home
automation or home theater tasks.
With Digital Theater Pro's
multitasking system you are not limited you
to performing one task at a time. As an example
you can start your DVD player and switch to
manipulating your receiver while Digital Theater
continues to receive and process real-time
data from your MP3 player.
Powerful
theme support allows you to download themes
created by other users. You can also use these
capabilities easily to change the appearance
of existing DTP components to suit your needs
and preferences.
Digital Theater is the first
self-contained interface capable of controlling
home theater personal computers. Dedicated
application plug-ins as well as support
for the popular Girder control system allow
you to control just about any program.
Digital Theater can use a TCP/IP
(standard) network to communicate and send
data between the main GUI interface, the HTPC
server interface, and other components.
Have all your MP3 files stored
on another computer on your network? No problem!
Just mount the drive as a network drive, and
Digital Theater will be able to automatically
detect and allow access to the files stored
at the other networked location.
Digital Theater is more than
a one-to-one control device. It allows you
to control your theater and automation equipment
from any networked computer in the house or
office.
The Digital Theater main GUI
(Client) application supports all popular
4:3 screen resolutions.
The
server component which runs on the primary
theater or target computer also supports
the same 4:3 resolution formats.
This is a very powerful plug-in
that allows you to browse your entire DVD
& movie collection on both the main
Digital Theater control screen and, if you
are a HTPC user, on the primary display
screen as well.
Aside
from containing information like DVD cover
picture, movie description and genre, the
DVD catalog also supports plug-ins that
allow you to automatically load and play
the selected movie from a DVD changer. This
is Digital Theater's most used plug-in.
This easy to use GUI makes designing
your own windows as simple as pointing and
clicking. Your windows can do anything the
program can do. Make your own remote controls,
DVD controls, etc - it's all possible with
the Window Maker.
Never before has creating
your own customized controls been so easy!
The
Macro Control lets you harness all the capabilities
of DTP and its plugins - all in an extremely
simple point and click interface.
With
the Macro Control, the possibilities of
what you can do become nearly limitless.
The Theme Navigator allows
you to quickly switch between different looks
for Digital Theater Pro. We included a number
of themes with the program, but you can also
create your own themes or use the theme files
created by other people.
Like with any electornic device,
your software is only as good as the data
it uses. This handy backup program backs up
and restores your settings with the click
of a single button.
These
little applications let you browse files stored
on either the control PC or the remote HTPC
server PC.
