Pioneer Announces Australian Distribution for Niveus Media Centres & Storage Servers

By | July 24th, 2005 comments icon (2) Comments


niveus pioneer denaliPioneer Electronics Australia and Niveus Media of the USA have announced an agreement for Pioneer to distribute Niveus Media Centres and Storage Servers for the Australian market.

The product line will be sold through Pioneer’s Professional A/V and Multimedia Division into the CEDIA/Custom Installation sales channels. First public display will be at the CEDIA Expo on the Gold Coast (July 28-30th) as part of the Pioneer booth.

“We’re extremely excited to be working with Pioneer Electronics,” said Tim Cutting, CEO of Niveus Media. “They have an impressive history of innovation in the home entertainment market and are the perfect go-to-market partner for Niveus in Australia.”

Niveus Media recently received an Innovations Design & Engineering award from the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for its Niveus 1TB A/V Storage Server in the Home Data Networking category.

One of the keys to the success of the Niveus Media Centres is the “fanless” Passive Cooling System. Noisy fans are one of the main objections to using PCs in a living room and the unique Niveus case design incorporating a combination of heat pipes, high performance heat sinks and thermal pads has completely eliminated the need for conventional cooling fans.

“Right from receiving our first sample we have been extremely impressed with the design, build quality and presentation of the Niveus products” said Rob Thompson, General Manager for Pioneer’s Export and Commercial Business Group. “Their support has also proved to be excellent as we customized the products for our local market. We believe that these are undoubtedly the best products of their kind on the market today.”

The Niveus Media product range includes the Denali Limited Edition Media Centre with twin High Definition tuners and up to 1TB of storage. Pioneer will also distribute the Niveus Terabyte A/V Storage Servers – the first product series to deliver high-end home theatre design into a scaleable, networked storage solution for the digital home market.

Tim Cutting, CEO of Niveus Media will attend the CEDIA Expo on the Gold Coast to gain first hand feedback and to assess the Australian market potential first hand.

About Pioneer:
Pioneer Corporation is one of the leading manufacturers of consumer and business-use electronics products such as audio, video and car electronics on a global scale. Its shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbol PIO), Euronext Amsterdam, Tokyo Stock Exchange, and Osaka Securities Exchange.

About Niveus Media:
Founded in 2002, Niveus Media is a Santa Clara, California-based OEM manufacturer specializing in media entertainment devices for the consumer electronics market. Niveus Media is dedicated to delivering innovative, integrated consumer electronic devices for the networked home. Additional information can be found at: www.niveusmedia.com.





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  • patersoi

    Buyers beware, as the support for Niveus products once you hand over the cash is not so supportive. They have told me that they don’t have the same problems I am having, so bad luck…..

  • TimC

    patersoi said: Buyers beware, as the support for Niveus products once you hand over the cash is not so supportive. They have told me that they don’t have the same problems I am having, so bad luck…..

    Ian,

    There’s no need to flame the Niveus support. What you have stated regarding Niveus support telling you “so bad luck” is simply not true. I saw your email myself today, the support folks are still working at reproducing your issue with the Pocket PC Software you purchased. We take support extremely serious, so any ticket that remains open gets escalated to my visibility.

    What they cannot due is offer a refund on a software product, especially one that has a 10-day trial. This is pretty much the norm in the United States. The problem with software is that once you purchase an activation code, there is really no way to ensure the person requesting a refund has really ceased using the product, and/or did not distribute it to someone else.

    Please continue to respond to our support folks as the more detail you provide will help reproduce and troubleshoot your issue. It looks like the last question back to you involved whether you can actually view the media center pc on your
    Pocket PC via folder browse. Please reply to the support ticket, and it would be good if you provide more information on the make/model of your Pocket PC and which brand of media center you own in Australia, or if you built it yourself.

    Respectfully,

    Tim Cutting