Microsoft Licenses Latest Version of Sonic AuthorScript
May 13, 2004
Marin County, CA - Microsoft has licensed Sonic AuthorScript, called the world’s leading CD and DVD formatting and burning engine, for incorporation into certain future versions of Microsoft Windows, Sonic Solutions announced.
The new license of Sonic AuthorScript allows Microsoft to build in capabilities for creating and burning photo slideshows, videos, recorded TV programs, music, and data to CDs and DVDs.
Sonic and Microsoft entered into a multi-year licensing deal in January 2002 in which Microsoft licensed Sonic’s DVD-Video authoring technology. Under that agreement, Sonic is providing core DVD technology and development expertise to Microsoft. In the new agreement between the two companies, Microsoft has the option to integrate AuthorScript into certain future versions of Windows, making it easier for consumers to create CDs and DVDs.
About AuthorScript
The Sonic AuthorScript Software Development Kit (SDK) is the world’s leading engine for the creation and burning of DVDs and CDs. AuthorScript makes it easy for third-party developers to add a broad range of CD and DVD technologies into their applications and to support the widest array of CD and DVD burners.
AuthorScript contains modules for converting video and audio data into DVD and VCD-compliant MPEG streams, formatting and burning DVD-Video and Video CD projects, data mastering for CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs, music CD ripping and burning, PVR recording, and DVD-Video and Video CD playback. AuthorScript also contains high-quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video encoding modules from Main Concept.
Sonic AuthorScript has been licensed by industry-leading companies including Adobe, AOL, Avid, Microsoft, Sony and many others. AuthorScript also underlies Sonic's award-winning applications including RecordNow, PrimeTime, MyDVD®, and DVDit! which are bundled by major OEMs such as Adaptec, Ben Q, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Iomega, Lite-On, Matrox, NEC, Panasonic, Pioneer, Sony, Toshiba, ViewSonic and others.
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About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions (Nasdaq “SNIC”) (http://www.sonic.com/) is the world’s leading supplier of DVD creation software for professional, industrial and consumer applications. The majority of major film releases on DVD have been produced on Sonic’s professional DVD authoring systems in studios around the world. Sonic’s MyDVD and DVDit!® are the most widely used DVD creation applications by consumers and video enthusiasts and are the solutions of choice among the key PC and after-market drive suppliers. Sonic’s RecordNow!™ is a leading solution for audio and data mastering. InterActual, a subsidiary of Sonic Solutions, is the leading provider of software and services that enable cutting-edge DVD interactivity in computers and next-generation home entertainment platforms. Sonic’s AuthorScript®, the DVD and CD formatting and burning engine that underlies Sonic’s applications, is the most widely deployed DVD software engine and has been licensed by Adobe, Microsoft, Sony and many others.
Sonic, the Sonic logo, AuthorScript, Backup MyPC, CinePlayer, DVD Producer, Edit-on-DVD, HyperMux DL, NoNOISE, Sonic PrimeTime, RecordNow! Simple Backup, Sonic JumpSafe and Sonic SmartBalance are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AutoDVD, DVDit!, DVD Fusion, MyDVD, OpenDVD, PrePlay, ReelDVD, Scenarist, Sonic DVD Creator and Sonic Solutions are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice. |
