A new beta firmware version (100706_1032_beta) for Dune players with a lot of new functions and possibilities has been released.

HDI Dune has achieved an agreement with Tuxera Inc. on licensing its commercial NTFS filesystem driver for Sigma Designs 864x platform.

The Tuxera's commercial NTFS filesystem driver provides a possibility to write to NTFS-formatted storages and has an excellent performance for both read and write operations.

A new stable firmware version (100413_1555) has been released for all Dune player models - both the current models (Dune BD Prime 3.0, Dune HD Base 3.0), and all previous models (Dune HD Base 2.0, Dune HD Base, Dune HD Center, Dune BD Prime, Dune HD Mini, Dune HD Ultra).

During the recent ceremony of the "Product of the Year" award, which took place in the scope of the Moscow exhibition "Technoshow 2010", the multimedia player Dune HD Base 3.0 was called the best network media player by the oppinion of the most authoritative russian magazines devoted to audio and video technics. The jury included such grands as Salon Audio&Video, Audiomagazine, DVD Expert, Total DVD, Consumer Video&Audio, Hi-Fi.ru, T3 and Stuff.

A new beta firmware version (100307_2100_beta) has been released for all Dune player models - both the current models (Dune BD Prime 3.0, Dune HD Base 3.0), and all previous models (Dune HD Base 2.0, Dune HD Base, Dune HD Center, Dune BD Prime, Dune HD Mini, Dune HD Ultra). This version is an intermediate version on the way to a "stable" version (which may be released based on this version, if no criticial problems and regressions in comparison with previous versions are found).

A new beta firmware version (091229_1411_beta) has been released for all Dune player models - both the current models (Dune BD Prime 3.0, Dune HD Base 3.0), and all previous models (Dune HD Base 2.0, Dune HD Base 1.0, Dune HD Center, Dune BD Prime, Dune HD Mini, Dune HD Ultra). This version is an intermediate version on the way to a "stable" version (which may be released based on this version, if no criticial problems and regressions in comparison with previous versions are found).

A new beta firmware version (091211_1311_beta) has been released for all Dune player models - both the current models (Dune BD Prime 3.0, Dune HD Base 3.0), and all previous models (Dune HD Base 2.0, Dune HD Base 1.0, Dune HD Center, Dune BD Prime, Dune HD Mini, Dune HD Ultra).

HDI Dune company will show its new versions of hybrid Blu-ray/HD media players during the 2 major exhibitions of Autumn 2009: IFA 2009 (September 4-9, Berlin, Germany. Hall 7.2a, booth 108), and CEDIA Expo 2009 (September 10-13, Atlanta, USA. Hall B, booth 5751).

The new products are named Dune BD Prime 3.0 and Dune HD Base 3.0.