Abbey Road Interactive Expands DVD Production Facility With Spruce DVD Authoring Systems.Business Editors and High Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Abbey Road Interactive, the pioneering multimedia production division of Abbey Road Studios Abbey Road Studios, created in November of 1931 by EMI in London, England is best known as the recording studio used by musicians such as The Beatles, Cliff Richard, Al Stewart, Pink Floyd, Oasis, The Shadows and Elliott Smith. , has expanded its DVD authoring capabilities by installing the DVDMaestro(TM) authoring system from Spruce Technologies. Among the first titles produced using DVDMaestro were the Eurythmics eurythmics or eurhythmics (both: y  rĭth`mĭks) Peace Tour disc and the Thunderbirds Volumes 1-8 discs. According to Abbey Road Interactive Technical Manager Rob Pinniger, "When the time came to buy our fifth authoring system our deliberations didn't take long. DVDMaestro's combination of ease-of-use, speed of production and robust nature, combined with Spruce Technologies' good reputation for customer support, meant that the decision was easy." Since its establishment in February 1997, Abbey Road Interactive has quadrupled in size and has recently moved into a state of the art new facility. The installation of Spruce DVDMaestro is part of a new expansion to increase efficiency and capacity. Pinniger said, "Spruce's products are known for being easy and quick to use. Our long-term experience of DVD authoring, combined with DVDMaestro's shallow learning curve meant that we could begin producing commercial work on the system the day we installed it." Abbey Road Interactive was one of the pioneers of DVD-Video in Europe, producing the UK's first commercial DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. . Its considerable digital video experience includes an award winning interactive design studio and ARI ARI Acute respiratory infection, see there is supported by the audio expertise of the world-famous Abbey Road Studios. ARI has a large number of titles in its portfolio and the company's DVD clients include BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. WW, Warner Vision International, Polygram, Columbia Tristar, BMG and many others. ARI offers customers considerable experience in the development of interactivity and digital video - stretching from early CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and CDi development through to Enhanced CD, DVD-Video, Web and DVD-ROM DVD-ROM: see digital versatile disc. A read-only DVD disc used to permanently store data files. DVD-ROM discs are widely used to distribute large software applications that exceed the capacity of a CD-ROM disc. - and ensures that it approaches each project individually from both the creative and technical perspectives. That experience has paid off with recently won awards at DVD Europe and the feature of senior author Tom Williams in a magazine article on 'The UK's best authors.' About Spruce Technologies, Inc. Spruce Technologies develops and markets DVD and WebDVD authoring software and MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). encoders for the corporate, new media, and entertainment markets. Based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , Spruce combines the best Silicon Valley software expertise with extensive DVD, MPEG and video postproduction knowledge. For more information, contact Spruce at 408-861-2200. Additional information about Spruce is also available on the World Wide Web at: http://www.sprucetechnologies.com. DVDMaestro, DVDStation, DVDConductor, DVDVirtuoso, Convergence, DVDonCD, RealSync, and RealView are trademarks of Spruce Technologies, Inc. Other company and product names are trademarks of their respective owners and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. |
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