# HighMAT

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'''HighMAT''' ('''High Performance Media Access Technologies''') is a [media format](/source/Content_format) jointly developed by [Panasonic Corporation (Matsushita)](/source/Panasonic_Corporation) and [Microsoft](/source/Microsoft) for personal [CD authoring](/source/CD_authoring) with music and photo content.<ref name="Geek">{{Cite web |url=https://www.geek.com/news/highmat-a-new-cd-format-550539/ |title=HighMAT: a new CD format |website=Geek.com |publication-date=21 October 2002 |access-date=6 January 2017 |archive-date=21 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021234025/https://www.geek.com/news/highmat-a-new-cd-format-550539/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Support==
Software to author HighMAT CDs transparently in [Windows XP](/source/Windows_XP), as well as a Windows XP player for HighMAT content, can be downloaded from the official site.

HighMAT technology has been discontinued by Microsoft.<ref>[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831240 Update for HighMAT support in the Windows XP CD Writing Wizard]</ref>

==Features==
Burning photos and music content onto [CD](/source/CD) generally involves organizing the photos/music into directories. Since a CD can generally hold up to some 700 [megabytes](/source/megabytes) of data, this can mean over a hundred songs or thousands of photographs. When HighMAT was introduced, most stand-alone [DVD](/source/DVD) players supported playback of [MP3](/source/MP3) and [JPEG](/source/JPEG) content, but the internal processing capacity of these units tended to make browsing large content libraries directly from CD very slow and tedious. HighMAT allows these stand-alone players to read lists of images and music content from the media faster, as well as providing a more convenient navigation system.<ref name="Geek" />
 
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