More lies scripted by Isaac Winehouse: "Constellation 3D and Sonic Collaborate to Put HDTV Content Onto
10/16/0 9:11 (New York)
FMD Optical Media
Business Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000--Constellation 3D, Inc.
("C3D") (Nasdaq OTC: CFMD) and Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
announced today a collaborative effort to master High Definition video
content for C3D's Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD) using Sonic's
award-winning DVD authoring system, DVD Creator.
The FMD - an optical disc capable of holding up to 100GB of data -
can store up to 11 hours of HDTV content in the 1080i and 720p
formats. Special versions of the FMD disc are also being designed for
Post Production, Mastering, Broadcasting, Video/Data Archiving, and
Digital Cinema applications.
The FCC and the United States Congress have mandated that every
television broadcasting station in the USA must by 2006 broadcast
their entire programming in HDTV format. The FMD video format, based
on Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) HDTV formats (incl.
1080i and 720p), will offer higher resolution, higher bit-rates and
greater realism than current consumer video formats.
FMD Playback Systems for Digital Cinema, HDTV and Personal Video
Recorders are currently under development with industry partners and
will be demonstrated in the coming months to the Broadcast & Movie
Industries. These systems, due for commercial release next year, are
based on inexpensive red laser and therefore capable of playing
current CD & DVD content. Another system in development includes a
playback system based on C3D's credit-card-sized FMC video
"ClearCard", with a capacity of 5GB per side.
About Sonic DVD Creator
Sonic DVD Creator is the world's leading DVD production system,
used to produce over half the DVD titles in circulation today.
Designed from the ground up as an integrated production system, DVD
Creator seamlessly combines DVD authoring, video and audio encoding,
title proofing and final disc formatting into a single, streamlined
process.
About Constellation 3D, Inc. develops advanced data storage
products including the ultra high capacity Fluorescent Multilayer Disc
and ClearCard(TM). The company has offices in New York and
Massachusetts, and laboratories in California, Israel and Russia.
Constellation 3D holds or has made applications for over 80 worldwide
patents in the field of optical data storage. More information is
available at www.c-3d.net.
About Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC)
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic (http://www.sonic.com) is
the leading manufacturer of solutions for DVD publishing. Sonic DVD
Creator and DVD Fusion are the most widely-used systems for
professional DVD publishing, and are installed worldwide at major
studios, post production facilities and in corporate marketing
departments. Sonic DVDit! (http://www.dvdit.com) is the first
application for DVD authoring targeted at videographers and corporate
video producers, and is bundled with major video editing, capture,
encoding and media production systems. SonicStudio HD is the leading
digital workstation for preparing audio for release on CD and the
first for creating content for the new DVD-Audio format. Sonic is also
a full voting member of the DVD Forum, the standards-setting body for
the DVD format.
Statements contained in the news release that are not historical
facts are forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking
statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, which may cause
actual results to differ materially from expected results.
THE SEC AND NASD HAVE NOT REVIEWED AND DO NOT ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
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CONTACT: Constellation 3D, Inc.
Thomas Lipiec
VP Business Development, Video & Audio Entertainment
phone: 415/302-3226
email: tlipiec@c-3d.net
or
Investor/Broker Inquiries
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