Sonic to Support Blu-ray and HD DVD Recording
January 06, 2005
Las Vegas, NV - Sonic Solutions will have solutions for competing next-generation DVD formats.
Systems for professional HD DVD production will be delivered in the summer of 2005, it announced, in support content creation for the expected release of HD DVD players in late 2005.
As well, the company will support the forthcoming Blu-ray (BD) data recording standard in its line of Sonic- and Roxio-branded consumer applications, as well as in its industry-standard AuthorScript Software Development Kit (SDK) for CD and DVD creation. Sonic says it will deliver the next generation BD-RE and BD-R data recording applications when the first drives ship in the summer of 2005.
HD DVD, the next generation format from the DVD Forum, combines high-definition video and audio content with advanced interactivity and internet connectivity. In addition to providing professional HD DVD authoring systems, Sonic plans to add HD DVD support to its Sonic- and Roxio-branded desktop and consumer software applications as HD DVD-ROM readers and HD DVD burners become available.
In conjunction with its support for the HD DVD format, Sonic has joined the DVD Forum’s HD DVD Promotion Group. Recently unveiled by a consortium of companies within the DVD Forum, the Promotion Group will promote the use of the new format and help establish the market for HD DVD software and products.
As the Blu-ray disc video formats are finalized, Sonic will also release a complete line of professional and consumer Blu-ray disc applications for creation and playback of high-definition interactive content. Blu-ray recordable media can hold 25 gigabytes of data on a single-layer disc, providing the high capacity required for digital media archival of home movies, recorded TV shows, music collections, and digital photos.
By incorporating Blu-ray file system support into Sonic’s AuthorScript engine, the technology core that underlies Sonic’s consumer and professional products, Sonic will rapidly enable its complete line of CD and DVD recording applications to take advantage of the Blu-ray Disc data format. This support also provides the foundation for future high-definition recording applications such as recording HDTV programming directly to disc with high-speed random access and retrieval of recorded programs, as well as editing and marking functions.
For more information, visit
www.sonic.com
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