Spotlight: Bamboo Technology Vault 360 Platinum

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Brian Kristensen
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Jan. 7, 2007

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Spotlight: Bamboo Technology Vault 360 Platinum

At CES Unveiled, we ran across a rather interesting piece of software from Bamboo Technology. They were showing off their recently released Vault 360 Platinum software which is the latest addition to their Vault product line. The Vault 360 is basically a central hub that converts and transfers music, movies and pictures to and from a wide array of portable devices such as smartphones, cameras, PDAs, MP3 players (even the iPod) and more.

With the Vault 360, you can basically plug any portable media device into your computer (with Vault 360 installed) and the pictures, movies or music stored on the device will be imported into your "vault." You don't have to mess with any other software or codecs as Vault 360 handles all the converting and organizing for you. You can then export media from your Vault library to "virtually any portable device." While Bamboo has to support specific products (like the iPod/iTunes and related file formats), Vault 360 has a built in scripting language allowing the public to add support for more devices although Bamboo will also add support for new devices as they come out. Bamboo will be working with companies such as Apple and Sony to fully support their file format, which also means it won't circumvent any DRM.

With Vault 360, you can import audio CDs and Vault will automatically lookup artist and track names over the internet and encode the music into MP3, WMA or WAV files. Vault also exports and encodes audio to iPods, PSPs and other MP3 players as well as burning to CDs. Vault connects directly to digital cameras and other memory sources to retrieve photos, which can be resized and edited (hue, brightness and red-eye). As far as video, Vault converts various video files (such as AVI, DivX, MPG, WMV, etc) to DVD format and vice versa. Movies and video can be imported from DVDs, camcorders, video recorders such as TiVo, Media Center PCs, DVRs and even from VCDs and VHS. You can also preview, listen to, and watch the movies, music and pictures you have in your library.

While most of us were interested in this software, we did question how many people would be able to take full advantage of everything it offers considering most consumers don't have more than a small handful of portable media devices. I personally have an MP3 player, digital camera and a laptop, and I'm not sure I could justify using such software. However, some consumers could benefit from the ease of transferring media between two or three devices such as the simplification of transferring video between an iPod and a PSP which would otherwise be quite a chore. If you or your family own three or more or more portable media devices, the Vault 360 looks like an excellent organizational tool to easily store all your media and transfer it between your various devices.

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