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To: Stoctrash who wrote (45391)	9/24/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Sonic(C-Cube customer) and partners, add DVD Audio to workstations........................... dvdinsider.com DVD Takes A Different Tune - 9/24/99 Sonic Solutions has successfully collaborated with Panasonic and the world's leading recording companies -- including Sonopress (BMG Storage Media), Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music Group (WMG) -- to create the first DVD-Audio test discs with SonicStudio HD, Sonic's next-generation professional audio workstation, and DVD Creator AV, the DVD-Audio version of Sonic's award-winning DVD-Video production system. These first DVD-Audio test discs demonstrate the advanced features of the new format -- high-resolution sound, graphics, and interactivity -- and were shown earlier this month at the IFA ("Internationale Funkausstellung 1999") show in Berlin. "DVD-Audio will be one of the first new formats of the 21st century," said Robert Doris, president of Sonic Solutions. "Designed as a truly flexible digital format, DVD-Audio discs will be playable on millions of PCs as well as on set-top DVD players. Sonic's DVD-Audio production and authoring tools will allow users to fully exploit all the capabilities of this new format, whether they are producing a simple audio disc or a complex title with moving images, menus, interactivity and web links." Since 1998, Sonic has been working intensively with the major record labels as they participated in the design of the DVD-Audio format in anticipation of the release of the first consumer DVD-Audio players. Each of the major labels in Sonic's DVD-Audio Developers Group used early versions of Sonic's DVD-Audio production software to author titles on their initial test discs and then provided feedback to Sonic's engineering team. "Together we're all getting a crash course in this new format," added Doris. "Prior to these first test discs, no one really knew how DVD-Audio titles would be authored. Working with the major labels on the first DVD-Audio discs has been invaluable and will help us refine the production version of our system." "Preparing DVD-Audio titles is much more challenging than traditional CD premastering," said Al McPherson, vice president of technology at WMG. "In contrast to a CD, which involves just a single stream of stereo audio at a fixed sample rate, our first demonstration DVD-Audio disc contains hundreds of different elements -- ten tracks with six channels at different sample rates, graphics, menus, slide shows and video. Preparing DVD-A titles requires complex tools that can handle all these elements, and working with Sonic will enable us to author titles that exploit the exciting new features supported by DVD-Audio." CONTACT: Sonic Solutions sonic.com