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Wednesday October 1 9:02 PM EDT
Company Press Release
Daikin Announces Joint Partnership With Digital Vision to Distribute DVD Authoring System
NOVATO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 1997--Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories, the developer of the first commercially available DVD authoring and premastering software announced today that Digital Vision will be a world-wide authorized distributor of the Scenarist product line.
The partnership with Digital Vision represents the beginning of Daikin's new open systems product and distribution strategy designed to bring the best available DVD solutions directly to the customer.
Scenarist will be available as either an integrated component within Digital Vision's BitPack MPEG2 video compression workstation, the complete solution for DVD and video server premastering, or as a stand alone software package. The Daikin and Digital Vision partnership combines Scenarist, the de facto industry standard in DVD authoring, with Digital Vision's industry leading MPEG-based encoding technology.
``Over the last decade, the high tech market has told us that the open systems trend is undeniably the way customers prefer to purchase product. Gone are the days of one supplier and one package solutions,'' said Yoshihiro Kato, Managing Director of Daikin Industries, Ltd. ``Daikin's open systems partnership with Digital Vision complements our intention to provide the best available world-class DVD products through the customer's choice of suppliers.''
Lars Svensson, the Product Manager for BitPack said, ``Together with Daikin's Scenarist, the BitPack(TM) family now contains all the parts required to set up a full DVD production suite including video and audio pre-mastering, authoring, and emulation.''
DVD professionals can achieve outstanding sound and picture quality by using BitPack(TM), The Video Encoder Workstation consists of integrated DVNR pre-processing, picture complexity graphical analysis, and dedicated control panels. The Audio Multi-Channel Workstation gives a complete audio solution, supporting the following audio formats: Dolby Digital, MPEG, and PCM. The integrated machine control allows automatic frame accurate encoding and playback. These two workstations together with Scenarist give an outstanding picture and audio quality and a high production capacity.
Daikin is the world's leading supplier of a complete range of authoring and premastering tools for DVD-Video and DVD-ROM software production. First released in 1996, Scenarist allows users to develop titles which are fully compliant with the DVD-Video specifications. Used by over 125 world-wide facilities ranging from Hollywood post production to DVD replication houses, Scenarist's proven technology helps customers create reliable DVD titles compatible with any available DVD player.
About Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories
Based in Novato, California, Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories, is the center of operations for R&D, marketing and support for the world-wide distribution of Scenarist. Scenarist, the world's first DVD authoring and premastering software, is used around the world to create professional DVD titles. Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. of Japan.
Daikin Industries Ltd. provides digital media hardware and software solutions including 3D graphic workstations from SGI, SoftImage 3D animation from Microsoft, and Daikin's own product, Scenarist, for professional multimedia content developers. The company's diverse operations also include being top-ranking manufacturer of commercial and industrial air conditioning systems, fluorochemicals, oil hydraulic and lubrication equipment, defense products, computer graphics systems, vacuums, cryogenics and medical equipment.
About Digital Vision
Digital Vision manufactures a broad range of 4:2:2, 4x4, 8:4:4 (High Resolution) and High Definition digital video products for the post-production and broadcasting industries. The company was founded in 1988 and sells its products throughout Europe, North America, Japan and Asia. Digital Vision received an Emmy Award in 1992 for its work on advanced motion compensation technology as applied to standards converters.
The company also holds the Peter Wayne Award for New Technology for BitPack(TM), its MPEG-2 video compression workstation and the ITS Monitor Award in recognition for the Advanced Scratch and Dirt concealer. In addition to its headquarters in Stockholm and support office in Los Angeles, the company maintains an R&D and sales facility in London, which is primarily responsible for development and sales of the company's telecommunications products. Sales throughout the rest of the world is via a network of more than 20 distributors.
Note to Editors: The Daikin logo and ``Scenarist'' are registered trademarks of Daikin Industries, Ltd. All other brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories
Michael Bahlo, 415/893-7800
info@scenarist.com
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