Roxio showcases expanded Mac software line at Macworld expo.Roxio, a division of 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. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNIC SNIC Singapore National Institute of Chemistry SNIC Snow and Ice Clearance SNIC Sub-Network Independent Convergence (functions) SNIC Standard Network Interface Card ) and producer of the bestselling digital media software in the world, is showcasing its latest solutions for Macintosh users at Macworld 2005. Roxio is presenting demonstrations of its latest product advances and giving attendees in-depth 'how to' tutorials, as well as offering special pricing on its complete line of products for Mac OS X. Among the solutions featured at the Expo are Toast, Roxio's market-leading CD and 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. burning software, with support for High Definition (HD) content, and Toast with Jam, which combines Toast 6 Titanium burning software with a rich array of studio-quality audio software. Roxio will also be showing Popcorn, the latest addition to its consumer software line, which enables users to copy non-encrypted DVD-Video discs. "Macworld represents a tremendous opportunity for Sonic to showcase Roxio's expanded Mac product line and reiterate our commitment to the platform and our loyal customer base," said Dave Habiger, senior vice president and general manager of Sonic's Roxio division. "The Expo provides current customers with a look at our latest product offerings, and allows potential customers to learn first hand why our products have become synonymous with ease-of-use, reliability, and technical leadership." Support for HD content in future versions of Toast will enable users to import HD program files, such as those created from HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates capture devices, and automatically create anamorphic See anamorphic lens and anamorphic DVD. widescreen DVDs that preserve the 16:9 aspect ratio. Anamorphic DVDs are specially encoded with more visual information than 4:3 letterbox The effect of displaying a wide screen movie on a standard TV set the way it was originally shot in full panoramic format. On the TV, the image frame spans the full width of the screen, but because of the difference in aspect ratios of the two formats (wide screen movie vs. DVDs, resulting in a sharper image when played on a widescreen TV. Popcorn, the newest addition to Roxio's Mac OS software line, enables consumers to back up their non-encrypted DVD-Video discs. Popcorn features flexible compression and extraction to fit video content onto a single-layer recordable DVD, while maximizing visual quality and use of disc space. Popcorn integrates Toast burning technology to ensure superior results with legendary ease-of-use, and is compatible with discs created using Apple's iDVD and DVD Studio Pro DVD Studio Pro is a high-end software tool published by Apple to allow users to create DVD masters to be sent out for replication at production houses. Its tight integration with other Apple applications allows users to take Final Cut Pro and Motion projects and render them into applications, as well as those recorded with set-top DVD recorders. In addition to live demonstrations of Toast, Toast with Jam, and Popcorn, Roxio product experts will be on hand to answer questions from Macworld attendees. Special Macworld show pricing is available for purchases made at the Roxio booth, as well as online at www.roxio.com/ macworld. |
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