Leading Software Vendors Line Up to Support Ultera DVD-R MultiMaster.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LAGUNA HILLS La·gu·na Hills A city of southern California southeast of Santa Ana. Population: 33,600. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 Ultera Systems today announced that six major vendors of DVD authoring DVD authoring describes the process of creating a DVD video that can be played on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum group in 1995. , mastering and archival software tools now support Ultera's DVD-R (DVD-Recordable) A write-once (read only) DVD disc for both movies and data endorsed by the DVD Forum. DVD-Rs are often called "DVD Dash Rs" or "DVD Minus Rs" to distinguish them from the competing "Plus R" format (see DVD+R). MultiMaster(TM) array controller, opening up Ultera's innovative DVD-R solution to customers in all segments of 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. market. The companies announcing support for the Ultera DVD-R solution include: Daikin U.S Comtec Laboratories, the leading provider of DVD authoring software; Prassi Software USA, a top provider of innovative, practical, quality software solutions for professional CD and DVD recording; Smart Storage Inc., the leading provider of standards-based storage software for managing, accessing, and archiving information assets for Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , NetWare, and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environments; Astarte GmbH, a full-line supplier of DVD authoring and mastering tools; Gear Software Inc., the leader in production support software for optical disc recording; and HyCD Inc., the industry leader in cross-platform CD and DVD recording. The DVD-R MultiMaster combines Ultera's patented array controller technology and the latest generation of DVD-R drives from Pioneer New Media Technologies Inc. to provide a cost-effective solution for DVD mastering, replication and archiving applications. DVD-R MultiMaster supports up to 12 Pioneer DVD-R drives to be connected to a single host, enabling speeding short-run replication operations by creating 12 DVD discs in the time it typically takes to create a single disc. Ultera's DVD-R MultiMaster controller synchronizes the duplication process to multiple drives with no performance degradation. The host computer sees the controller as a single SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. device, but up to 12 Pioneer DVD-R drives can be connected simultaneously, each operating at maximum data rates, allowing a dozen DVD copies to be created in the same time required to produce a single disc. The DVD-R Master controller is also compatible with existing autoloader and library software, enabling each drive array channel to control a media changer Changer The name given to a clearing member that is willing to assume the opposite position of a futures contract within a larger alternative exchange, of which it also is a clearing member. device, further extending the capabilities of the solution. "The Pioneer-Ultera DVD-R solution provides a unique platform for a wide range of DVD publishing and archiving uses, but the potential of this hardware platform only becomes useful with broad application software support," said Fred Bedard, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Ultera. "With these critical software partnerships in place, the DVD-R MultiMaster is now the premier solution for DVD authoring, replication and archiving applications." "DVD-R technology is emerging as the premier platform for testing and developing DVD applications, and Ultera and Pioneer have now delivered a solution that makes DVD-R even more attractive," said Tomoyoshi Ichioka, Senior Vice President of Operations, Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories. "It will definitely have a powerful effect on the industry and will be a very important product for further development of the corporate DVD market." "The DVD-R MultiMaster and SmartStor(TM) DVD Maker solution fills a void, allowing multiple DVD copies to be created for distribution or archiving without having to go to a mastering plant," said Gary Brach, President of Smart Storage. "With DVD-R we're re-living the evolution of CD recording, which started out as being very expensive, then migrated to multi-drive systems as costs came down. We're at the stage with DVD-R where it makes sense for video, medical imaging and other data-intensive applications to look at this solution today." The software products that now support Ultera's DVD-R Master include: Daikin Scenarist sce·nar·ist n. One who writes screenplays. scenarist the writer of scenarios, story lines for motion pictures. See also: Films Noun 1. Scenarist(TM) is the world's most popular, most advanced and most compatible DVD Authoring software. Using a high performance, cross-platform database engine, Scenarist provides increased performance and a seamless workflow environment. The first commercially available authoring tool on the market, Scenarist was developed in conjunction with some of the largest production houses in the world and refined into the most stable, productive authoring tool available today with well over 2,000 titles created on this system. With Scenarist, users can create title templates, reuse data from one title to the next, share data assets, and simultaneously access DVD projects. Scenarist supports a high energy, productive, integrated and creative authoring process, always in full compliance with the DVD specification. Scenarist has Flexible Navigation Editing, making simple operations for simple titles easy while advanced editing capabilities are a click away for complex titles. Copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. functions for navigation and menu information and a Template Wizard for series of projects, all make for the easiest and most powerful authoring solution to any DVD. Prassi DVD Rep DVD Rep(TM) is the first complete pre-mastering for DVD-R, with copy and record on the fly. DVD Rep is a Win 32 (Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT) professional software application for DVD-R mastering. DVD Rep is UDF (1) (Universal Disk Format) A file system for optical media developed by the Optical Storage Technology Association (OSTA), www.osta.org, based on the ECMA 167/ISO 13346 standard. compliant and masters on the fly, via disk image UDF/ISO Bridge or pure UDF file system formats. DVD Rep's interface has been designed using the latest advances in Windows shell An add-on user interface for Windows. Numerous shells were created for Windows 3.x to streamline or replace Program Manager by providing such features as foldering, customized toolbars and quick access to the DOS command line. For example, Norton Desktop for Windows was popular. integration techniques. Its ease of use belies the robust engine, which beats as the heart of this first-of-its-kind product. Smart Storage SmartStor DVD Maker SmartStor(TM) DVD Maker is designed for data-intensive applications such as document imaging, prepress, medical imaging and video archive using DVD-R media. SmartStor DVD Maker converts scanned images or video streams into a premastered image on the DVD Maker workstation. Then the software's emulation system ensures the accuracy of the image before one or more DVD-R discs are produced, saving time and money caused by corrupt DVDs. Furthermore, SmartStor DVD Maker also serves video, multimedia and audio applications by providing a sophisticated data preparation and emulation tool to create and validate pre-mastered titles. Using DVD Maker, these images are tested and verified before being sent to the mastering plants for mass replication. The software also has an easy-to-use drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to , and supports ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9660, Joliet and UDF file systems. Gear Software GEAR Pro DVD Designed for a wide range of professional applications - from producing a single disc at a user's desktop to pre-mastering for mass replication of digital audio, video or game titles - GEAR Pro DVD(TM) v2.0 is the most comprehensive DVD software on the market. The software makes it easy for users to take advantage of the large storage capacities available with the DVD-R format. The product enables drag-and-drop functionality and offers unique features like cyclic buffering for writing performance and reliability. GEAR Pro DVD also includes backward capability with CD-R (CD-Recordable) A writable CD technology using a type of compact disc that can be recorded, but not erased (CD-Rs are "write once" discs). CD-R discs are used to master CD-ROMs, to back up data and to make copies of data for distribution. (W) drives, ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. labeled output for DVD/DVD file format, Orange Book multi-session recording, Disc at Once and Track at Once recording methods. Astarte DVDirector The Astarte DVD product family includes DVDirector(TM) and DVDirector Pro(TM), the professional authoring suites for DVD-Video; DVDelight(TM), a simple tool for easy creation of linear DVD-Video titles; DVDExport(TM), a Macromedia Director Xtra which allows producers to author DVD-Video titles using Director; M.Pack, a software-based MPEG-2 encoder; and A.Pack, a Dolby Digital A digital audio encoding system from Dolby used in movie and home theaters. First used in 1995, Dolby Digital employs Dolby's AC-3 (Audio Coding-3) coding and compression technology and is the standard for DVD-Video and HDTV. 5. professional AC-3 encoding system In a digital system, a method of assigning binary codes to represent characters of data. See ASCII, 7-bit ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, UTF, MIME, BinHex, quoted printable encoding, UUcoding, ASN.1 and cryptography. . HyCD Publisher HyCD Publisher(TM), available for both UNIX and Windows environments, is the only DVD-R software on the market that allows for the creation of a single hybrid 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. readable on PC, Mac and UNIX platforms. HyCD Publisher is a true cross-platform DVD recording software. This powerful, feature rich, versatile recording software also allows the creation of bootable DVDs for PC, multimedia formats, file layout Same as record layout. optimization and much more. HyCD Publisher is the only recording software needed to fulfill pre-mastering requirements. The intuitive graphical user interface allows both novice and advanced users to create DVDs. About Ultera Systems Ultera Systems Inc. is the leading manufacturer of RAID Tape Array controllers and subsystems designed for high-speed backup, archive and high-speed data acquisition applications. All industry standard tape drives, tape libraries and storage management software are compatible with the Ultera Arrays. Its tape array product lines are marketed under the trade names "Striper," "Imager," "LibraryMaster" and "ShadowMaster," and sold through OEMs, VARs and Systems Integrators worldwide. Not new to the optical arena, Ultera has deployed its advanced controller technology in optical storage applications for years, in thousands of installations worldwide. Ultera is based in Laguna Hills, Calif. For further information, call 949/367-8800, email fred@ultera.com or visit its web site at http://www.ultera.com. |
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