Cine Magnetics Expands DVD/VOD Authoring and Compression Center.Business Editors ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2000 Responding to increased client demands caused by its rapid growth in the 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. marketplace, Cine Magnetics Video & Digital Laboratories Monday announced it has begun construction on a fourth DVD/VOD Authoring and Compression suite. The new DVD/VOD suite complies with current standards in audio room construction with sufficient sound absorption/reflection and bass trapping trapping, most broadly, the use of mechanical or deceptive devices to capture, kill, or injure animals. It may be applied to the practice of using birdlime to capture birds, lobster pots to trap lobsters, and seines to catch fish. built into the room to ensure trustworthy critical monitoring. The room will be optimized for surround sound An audio recording and playback system that uses five or more channels plus a subwoofer channel. See 5.1 channel and 3D audio. mixing utilizing KRK monitoring, the house standard, throughout. Bob Orzack, Cine Magnetics' vice president, affirmed that the company's DVD/VOD posture will continue to be high-end Hollywood quality. "Our commitment to maintaining the highest standards is evident in our decision to spend over $200,000 on construction and equipment for this new suite," he noted. "We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. that, in spite of the expansion of low end authoring and compression equipment and services on a general scale, our clients understand the quality differences and are willing to invest in the initial additional monies for the long term quality investment of their product." The suite features a Sonic Solutions Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a digital media company based in Novato, California, USA. It was created in 1986 by former Lucasfilm employees who developed the AudioDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droidworks project. Creator system that will, along with the three other suites, exchange data over a high speed Rourke Data fibre channel Storage Area Network. This will enable the facility's workstations to share resources instantly and efficiently regardless of platform. As a result, a typical project can have its assets encoded, its menus created, its authoring done and its final disc image verified by all Cine Magnetics workstations having access to a common shared storage area. Video monitoring, as in all Cine Magnetics DVD suites, is accomplished with Sony Broadcast digital monitors, further ensuring that all DVD projects never leave the digital domain. Testing and verification is carried out with Interra Digital Video Technologies MProbe and Surveyor software. Information on Cine Magnetics DVD and VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand services can be obtained by calling 800/431-1102, via fax at 914/273-7575, via e-mail at cminfo@cinemagnetics.com or on the World Wide Web at www.cinemagnetics.com. Cine Magnetics Video & Digital Laboratories was founded in 1961 with facilities in Armonk and Studio City, Calif. and branch offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . The firm specializes in the duplication of videocassettes and replication of optical media. Services include language replacement and subtitling, custom package design and printing, 800-number inbound order capturing, electronic credit card processing, database management, e-commerce integration and distribution services for entertainment, business, industry, education and special interest organizations. |
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