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Sonic Announces that Microsoft Licenses Latest Version of Sonic AuthorScript; New AuthorScript Engine Adds CD and DVD Formatting and Burning
MARIN COUNTY, Calif., May 13, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sonic Solutions
(Nasdaq: SNIC) announced today that Microsoft has licensed Sonic AuthorScript(R),
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(TM), PrimeTime(TM),
MyDVD(R), and DVDit!(R) 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.
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