Roxio Adds HD Support in Expanded Software Line
January 12, 2005
San Francisco, CA - Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, will add HD functionality to its Toast CD and DVD burning software.
As well, the company announced special pricing on its complete line of products for Mac OS X, now featuring Toast, and Toast with Jam, which combines Toast 6 Titanium burning software with a rich array of studio-quality audio software. Roxio added Popcorn, software enabling users to copy non-encrypted DVD-Video discs, to its consumer line-up.
Support for HD content in future versions of Toast will enable users to import HD program files, such as those created from HDTV capture devices, and automatically create anamorphic widescreen DVDs that preserve the 16x 9 aspect ratio., the company described. Anamorphic DVDs are specially encoded with more visual information than 4 x 3 letterbox 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 applications, as well as those recorded with set-top DVD recorders.
For more information, visit
www.roxio.com
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