Sonic Solutions(R) (NASDAQ:SNIC) announced today
that NEC Europe, one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband
network and enterprise business solutions, has selected Sonic MyDVD(R)4 and
Sonic CinePlayer(TM) 1.5 as the DVD creation and PC playback software to power
their ND family of DVD recordable drive products. With MyDVD and CinePlayer, NEC
MultiSpin DVD Writer ND-1100 and ND-1300 users are able to quickly and easily
create and watch DVDs of their favorite home videos and photos with
Hollywood-style motion menus, animated buttons, and high-quality DVD slideshows.
And with OpenDVD(R) technology, the DVD projects they create can be re-edited
later at any time to add and delete content and change
menus.
NEC's MultiSpin DVD Writer
ND-1100 is a quadruple-speed DVD-recordable drive supporting the DVD+R(W)
format, and the new ND-1300 DVD-recordable drive is a quadruple-speed
multi-format writer that supports both DVD+R(W) and DVD-R(W), and gives users
the freedom to choose which rewritable DVD format they want to use to create
home movies, to record music or to store images and data. By using Sonic MyDVD,
NEC MultiSpin DVD Writer users are able to quickly create, archive and share
home movies on DVD. With Sonic CinePlayer, users of the high-performance DVD R
drives are assured the highest-quality PC playback of their DVD and Video CD
titles.
"NEC Europe is dedicated to providing
consumers with the best solutions for creating and watching DVDs," said Ralf
Dajek, Product Manager, Peripherals at NEC Europe. "We chose Sonic, a company
that has long been at the forefront of DVD technology, and their MyDVD and
CinePlayer applications, because they deliver the easiest and most creative way
for home users to cherish their precious memories on DVD".
"NEC Europe is
a major player in the consumer electronics arena, and we are very pleased to
have been selected as the ideal DVD solution for their MultiSpin DVD Writer
series drives," said John Newman, Director of European Operations at Sonic.
"Sonic MyDVD and CinePlayer are the perfect combination for the ND-1100 as well
as for the ND-1300, allowing home users to easily create their own personal
blockbusters and then watch them right on their PC with the highest video
quality available."
he NEC MultiSpin DVD Writers are available now at retail
outlets across Europe at the suggested retail prices of 349.- Euro for the
ND-1300 and 269.- Euro for the ND-1100.
About the NEC MultiSpin
DVD Writer ND-1100 and ND-1300
The NEC MultiSpin DVD Writer
provides a complete solution for data backup, storage and distribution -- from
sharing films and music to archiving a massive 4,7 GB/side of content on one DVD
disc alone. The ND-1100 is a fast recording solution and is perfect for
users who want to write to the DVD+R(W) format. The ND-1300 is NEC's 4x
combination format DVD writer which supports both DVD+R(W) and DVD-R(W),
eliminating the compatibility issues that have slowed the take up of DVD
writers. The ND-1300 removes the guesswork once and for all, enabling end-users
to create disks for play-back in virtually all DVD video players and DVD-ROM
drives with no compromise in performance. The ND-1300 as well as the ND-1100
delivers very fast and reliable performance at both reading and writing media.
Its performance enables the recording of one hour of DVD Video in just 15
minutes. The NEC MultiSpin DVD Writer also includes ACTOPC - NEC's
high-resolution writing strategy to enhance the accuracy of written data. ACTOPC
provides the user with improved quality of data copying - while allowing for
local anomaly in media-manufacturing tolerances, finger marks,
etc.
About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the leading
PC application for consumer DVD creation. With its ability to record analog and
digital video (DV) in real-time into MPEG-2 for DVD, MyDVD is the fastest and
easiest way to share treasured video memories with friends and family on DVD
discs, from wedding videos to children's birthday parties and other special
events.
Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn high-quality DVDs
with motion-video menus, animated buttons and DVD slideshows with transitions
and soundtracks. Sonic MyDVD also features optimized Direct-to-DVD(TM) recording
which allows users, in just a few clicks, to record their content directly to
DVD from a video source connected to the computer's video input. Sonic MyDVD is
also OpenDVD(TM)-compliant, enabling previously burned DVDs to be opened,
re-edited, updated with new video and photo content and re-burned to DVD and CD
recordable/re-writable media. This enables an entirely new generation of DVD and
CD applications, such as video diaries, up-to-the-minute, customized sales
presentations, compilations of family events, and more.
About
Sonic CinePlayer
With its high-performance MPEG decoding engine
and native support for Microsoft DirectX(R), Sonic CinePlayer provides the
highest-quality DVD and Video CD playback experience available on the PC. Sonic
CinePlayer is also the first software DVD player to take advantage of OpenDVD.
With its ability to launch an OpenDVD project directly from the player into an
authoring application for further editing, Sonic CinePlayer takes a bold step in
the direction of giving users a seamless experience in both creating and playing
DVD content.
Source: Businesswire.com
