Roxio Launches Easy Media Creator 8
October 03, 2005
Santa Clara, CA - Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, today introduced Easy Media Creator 8 ($99.99), what the company calls the most significant upgrade ever to its digital media suite. Easy Media Creator 8 merges advanced technologies from Roxio and Sonic into a comprehensive suite of CD and DVD authoring, burning, photo, video and music applications. Scheduled to be available later this month, Easy Media Creator 8's features extend the possibilities of digital media creation, management, preservation, sharing and enjoyment.
"Easy Media Creator 8, our flagship application suite, empowers consumers to unleash the full potential of their digital media," said Dave Habiger, President and CEO of Sonic Solutions. "Combining technologies we've pioneered for Hollywood with extensive user feedback and research, Easy Media Creator 8 sets a new category standard offering a unique blend of power and ease of use. With its original, innovative features that make previously impossible tasks a reality for the first time, Easy Media Creator 8 truly is the best way for consumers to manage and share their digital lives."
Digital Media Comes Home
Consumers' new digital media experience begins at Media Creator Home, the central hub for navigating to any of the suite's 25 applications, launching specialized features or completing common tasks using Home's embedded functionality. Users can use the new Task Assistants that lead them quickly through the creation of personalized projects. It is here that consumers will also discover innovative new functionality such as instantly sharing photos over the internet with friends and family or accessing digital media anywhere on a home network. Media Creator Home also provides instant links to the capabilities of the suite that provide new ways for consumers to enjoy their digital media and the opportunity to explore emerging technologies such as High Definition.
Maximizing Audio Enjoyment
Headlining the new music capabilities of Easy Media Creator 8 is DVD Music Disc, which turns any DVD player into a virtual music jukebox with up to 50 hours of Dolby Digital quality music. With enough room for approximately 65 albums, DVD Music Discs play back in standard set-top DVD players and feature DVD menus and navigation by track, artist, genre, album or year, accessed via remote control.
Other new audio features enable users to burn a long audio compilation across multiple audio CDs simultaneously, and specify a play back order of MP3 and WMA files even if their player only supports alphabetical playback. Another Easy Media Creator 8 innovation makes it easy to extract audio from DVDs to create audio CDs or MP3/WMA music tracks for use on portable players.
Easy Next Generation Video Editing and DVD Authoring
Easy Media Creator 8 uses Sonic Solutions' advanced DVD authoring technology with the integration of the newest version of MyDVD. The popular authoring application, lets consumers create personalized DVDs with custom designs and full-motion multi-chapter menus that enable advanced navigation.
VideoWave, the suite's rich video editing application which includes automated video creation options as well as advanced hands-on controls, has been architected to work in real-time with HD video streams. In addition, Easy Media Creator 8 now includes DivX 6 support to enable the creation, editing and playback of high-definition DivX media files. In addition, TiVo Series 2 subscribers can now use Easy Media Creator 8 to transfer, preview and burn to DVD the shows they record on their home-networked TiVo Digital Video Recorders.
Complete Disc and Data Protection
Easy Media Creator 8's recording and backup components enable consumers to burn, copy and archive digital media and data on CD and DVD, including double layer DVD media. Large files can now be automatically spanned across multiple discs and burned in multiple drives simultaneously. DVD movies can be compressed and copied from 9GB to 4.7GB discs, with options for removing unwanted extras to optimize recording quality.
In a similar fashion to compiling a mixed music CD, consumers can now create compilation DVDs of movies from different sources such as DVD-Video, DivX or WMV. Easy Media Creator 8 also allows consumers to complete the most popular data burning and disc copying functions with minimal clicks by embedding common functions directly within the suite's new Home application and component launcher.
Pricing and Availability
Easy Media Creator 8 will be available beginning later this month in over 12,000 store fronts throughout North America, directly from Roxio and available shortly thereafter in Europe and Asia Pacific regions. It will be priced at $99.99 and at equivalent value in regions around the world. Registered owners of Roxio and Sonic products, as well as owners of select competitive products, may be eligible for special upgrade offers.
For more information on Easy Media Creator 8 visit
www.roxio.com/go/emc8
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