Marin County, CA (May 13, 2004) - Sonic Solutions announced
today that Microsoft has licensed Sonic AuthorScript, the world's leading CD and
DVD formatting and burning engine, for incorporation into certain future
versions of Microsoft Windows. 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.
"We are very pleased to expand our collaboration with Microsoft," said Mary
Sauer, senior vice-president of business development at Sonic. "Users want to be
able to easily record and share their photos, music, videos, and TV programs on
CD or DVD. Through AuthorScript, Microsoft can provide tremendous convenience
and flexibility to consumers and enable them to create discs that can be played
back on hundreds of millions of PCs and set-top DVD players."
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.
About Sonic Solutions
Based in Marin County, California,
Sonic Solutions (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.
Source: Sonic
