Sonic Teams with Melco Inc. (BUFFALO) to Bring Easy and Affordable MPEG-2 Encoding and DVD Publishing to the Home Market.Business Editors, Technology Writers MARIN COUNTY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2000 Announce All-in-One Solution for Capturing, Editing and Authoring Content for 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. 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. announced today that Melco Inc. (BUFFALO), one of Japan's largest supplier of computer peripherals will bundle Sonic's DVDit! authoring software with their MEG-VC2 MPEG-2 video capture board. DVDit! is the industry's best-selling and easiest-to-use 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. application. With DVDit!, customers using Melcoaes MEG-VC2 board can easily and quickly convert their videos to MPEG-2 format and then produce professional quality DVDs. Part of Melco's BUFFALO line The Buffalo Line is a railroad line owned by Pennsylvania Lines LLC and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway in the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. The line runs from Buffalo, New York southeast to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania along a former Pennsylvania Railroad line. of products, MEG-VC2 allows users to save video libraries in MPEG-2 digital video. Because it is a hardware-based solution, the MEG-VC2 encoding engine offers greater image quality than software encoding and provides access to the full capabilities of the encoder without requiring the fastest, most powerful PC. With the added functionality provided by DVDit!, users can directly author DVDs and play them back on PCs or set-top players. Since DVDit! supports Sonic's cDVD technology, short DVD-Video titles can be recorded onto standard CD-ROMs and then played back on any of the hundreds of millions of PCs equipped with high speed CD-ROM readers. "With the growing demand for digital cameras, home video recorders, multimedia PCs and Sonic's DVDit! authoring software, more and more home users are turning to products that will allow them to capture, edit and distribute their movies with the best possible quality," said Mr. Yasuhiro Takaoka, General Manager, Graphic Systems Division at Melco. " By combining Sonic DVDit! with our new MEG-VC2 capture board we will provide our customers with an integrated, easy-to-use solution at an attractive price that will make DVD authoring accessible to more people. We are enthusiastic to be working with Sonic in delivering this groundbreaking solution." "With millions of DVD-equipped PCs and set-top players on the market, DVD is the most exciting new distribution format for high-quality digital video," said James Manning, DVDit! Product Manager at Sonic Solutions. "Customers who purchase the MEG-VC2 and DVDit! bundle can create and distribute DVD video productions on CD and DVD more easily and affordably than ever. We believe Sonic DVDit! will be the perfect complement to Melco's MEG-VC2 capture board." About Sonic DVDit! Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD. Combining a simple and straightforward user interface with Sonic's award-winning DVD formatting technology, DVDit! gives video professionals, graphic designers, artists and video enthusiasts the power to create stunning interactive DVD content on their PC. DVDit! is compatible with AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. and QuickTime video files, so that virtually any video content - from DV to D1 - can be incorporated into a DVDit! project. With an intuitive interface, building DVD titles is as easy as selecting a menu background and then dragging and dropping an AVI, QuickTime or 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). video file. DVDit! automatically builds buttons and interactivity, multiplexes and formats content and records to 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. or 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). for playback in consumer set-top DVD players or DVD-equipped PCs. DVDit! can create interactive titles in DVD-Video, 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 cDVD formats. About Melco Inc. (BUFFALO) With four subsidiaries in Japan, Melco Inc. (BUFFALO) is one of the leading Japanese manufacturers of computer peripherals. In addition to its sales and distribution activities, Melco manages technical computer seminars and offers peripheral device installation services through its "PC Power-up Delivery" service. Melco also provides a variety of memory, storage and networking products that allow users to utilize the Internet more efficiently and build comfortable computing environments. Additional subsidiaries are present in Taiwan, England, Ireland and the US. About Sonic Solutions (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 ) Based in Marin County, California Marin County (IPA: /məˈrɪn/) is a county located in the North San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. As of 2000, the population was 247,289. , Sonic Solutions designs and manufactures DVD publishing systems used by video, audio and multimedia professionals around the world to prepare music, video, film, graphics and entertainment software. Sonic DVD Creator is the leading system for producing content for the DVD format, and has been used to create thousands of DVD titles worldwide, for applications ranging from feature film releases to corporate and industrial titles. Sonic DVDit! is the easiest way to publish on DVD and for the first time makes DVD production available to the consumer market. Sonic also offers SonicStudio HD, the leading digital audio workstation A digital audio workstation (DAW) is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words. used by audio professionals to prepare recorded sound for release on DVD and CD, as well as for film and video soundtracks and broadcast. Sonic is a leader in advancing DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technology and is a full voting-member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for the DVD format. Sonic Solutions can be contacted on the web at www.sonic.com. (c)2000 Sonic, Sonic Solutions, the Sonic logo and DVDit! are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice. |
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