Sonic Announces Support for Next-generation DVD Video Recording Formats
May 09, 2003
New Orleans, LA - Sonic Solutions has announced enhancements to its AuthorScript DVD/CD engine and MyDVD application to support the DVD+R/+RW Video Recording and DVD-RAM/-R/-RW VR formats - both of which are used by consumer set-top DVD recorders to make real-time recordings of personal videos and TV broadcasts.
Announced in concert with Microsoft's endorsement of all current DVD physical recording formats in the forthcoming version of Windows, Sonic's expanded support of the DVD+R/+RW and DVD-RAM/-R/-RW real-time DVD recording formats ensures that consumers will have the broadest flexibility in choosing DVD recording devices for their living room and PC, the manufacturer reports.
The new DVD video recording capabilities Sonic is implementing deliver a unique approach to real-time recording, editing, and optimization that enables users to move video content easily between set-top DVD recorders and their personal computers. The enhancements to MyDVD are built upon the DVD+R/+RW and DVD-RAM/-R/-RW format capabilities Sonic is developing for AuthorScript, the DVD and CD formatting and burning engine that underlies Sonic's applications.
The DVD+R/RW Video Recording and DVD-RAM/-R/-RW VR enhancements are built around key technologies developed as part of Sonic's AuthorScript. These include:
- Video optimization - Video is automatically optimized when recorded, edited, or appended to recordable and rewritable DVD discs. This more efficiently utilizes space, providing the greatest amount of video on a disc, and also results in smoother, more seamless playback.
- Direct-to-DVD recording and editing - Video can be directly recorded on the PC in DVD+R/+RW Video Recording format, delivering round-trip inter-operability. In addition, MyDVD users can update and edit their DVD+R/+RW Video Recording and DVD-RAM/-R/-RW VR discs on their PC, taking advantage of the extensive and easy-to-use authoring and editing environment in MyDVD, while maintaining compatibility with set-top recorders.
- Finish-to-DVD - While the DVD+R/+RW Video Recording format offers high compatibility with existing DVD-Video players in the market, this exclusive MyDVD feature allows anyone to easily add professional-looking motion menus, transitions between clips, and photo slideshows to DVD+R/+RW and DVD-R/-RW recordings and finalize their discs in the DVD-Video format, making them compatible with the more than 300 million DVD players installed around the world. Because finished DVD-Video discs produced by MyDVD are OpenDVD-compliant, users can continue to edit them or append new material anytime using any OpenDVD-enabled application, such as MyDVD and Sonic DVD Producer.
Sonic plans to offer the DVD-Video Recording-enhanced versions of MyDVD through selected OEMs starting in the summer of 2003, with retail versions slated for release later in the year. Sonic AuthorScript implementations of DVD+R/+RW Video Recording and DVD-VR support will be released to selected licensing partners in the PC and consumer electronics markets starting in the second calendar quarter of 2003.
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