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To: BillyG who wrote (32459)	4/20/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Minerva DVD encoding and authoring systems. I believe she's a CUBE customer.......... newsalert.com <<At NAB'98, Minerva Systems, Inc., the professional choice of DVD publishers, announced a number of leading post-production houses worldwide that have recently selected the Minerva DVD Professional(TM) line of encoding and authoring solutions. The facilities are located throughout North America, Europe and Asia, further confirming Minerva's position as the worldwide leader in providing best of breed DVD pre-mastering equipment. With DVD publishing activity in Hollywood rapidly growing, APS Entertainment has selected the Minerva DVD Professional for its newly established state-of-the-art pre-mastering and replication facilities in Hollywood and Orange County, CA. "The addition of Minerva to our facility is in keeping with our philosophy of quality, performance and timely production," stated APS Founder and President, Pete Solis. United DVD Productions U.S.A. has also chosen the Minerva solution for its new DVD pre-mastering facility in Los Angeles. Newhaven Media Inc., based in Calgary, Canada, has also selected the Minerva DVD Professional system for its New Media operation. The extensive line of services offered by this division will now include the best DVD encoding and authoring tools available on the market. DVD publishing is also an excellent complement to the company's Film and Video production business. "An investment in the Minerva DVD Professional was essential for us to secure the DVD pre-mastering opportunities that are arising throughout Canada," said Carlo M. Shimoon, Newhaven Media President and CEO. "The high quality products and open system architecture associated with Minerva made it an easy decision." Another Canadian DVD pre-mastering facility, Wilderness Films, Inc. recently added Minerva to its operation. As an active DVD publisher, Wilderness found that the Minerva encoding system eliminates the artifacting found with other compression products at similar bitrates. Wilderness Films is now able to significantly cut down time spent on Quality Control and the previous need to re- encode for different bitrates. Dot Media Ltd. is a new addition to the Thakral Group in Asia. [Thakral is a CUBE customer.] This new company has been chartered to deliver feature film and multimedia DVD titles to the Far East marketplace. In order to meet its customers' high standards, Dot Media Ltd. has invested in a Minerva DVD Professional system. In addition to DVD pre-mastering services, Thakral Corporation Ltd. also offers replication and other related services. Valkeiser Solutions (Netherlands), a member of the Valkeiser Group which is recognized as the leader in the European broadcast and post-production community, has added the Minerva DVD Professional to its operation as well. CTAI, a post-production facility in Switzerland, has recently upgraded its Minerva system and facility to deliver DVD pre-mastering services. In Australia, Information Advantage Technologies Pty Ltd. (IAT) is recognized as the premier supplier of broadcast quality video. IAT selected the Minerva DVD Professional system to produce the extraordinary image and disc quality expected in the early DVD-Video and DVD-ROM market. >> Many more customers are mentioned in the article...