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Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched Toast 8 Titanium, a significant upgrade to its industry-leading Mac disc burning software. Continuing to enhance and extend the functionality of the Mac OS and iLife applications, Toast 8 offers a range of new innovative features and ground-breaking platform firsts that enable users to see, hear, copy, and enjoy their entire digital lives on a disc and on-the-go. Toast 8 is available today at www.roxio.com and at Macworld Expo booth # 314.Toast 8 Titanium is available now and can be purchased directly from Roxio for $99.99. More information can be found on Roxio's website. Add a comment
Headlining Toast 8 are a number of unique new features and enhancements that help redefine the standard for disc burning on the Mac platform. Toast 8 brings TiVo and the Mac together for the first time, enabling users to enjoy their favorite TV programs on their Mac, burn them to disc, or easily convert them for viewing on a mobile device such as an iPod or PSP. Complementing the features of iTunes, Toast 8 enables users to apply professional-quality tools to create superior sounding audio CD mixes and music DVDs. Going beyond the burning options included in Mac OS, Toast 8 introduces Blu-ray Disc burning, as well as automatic disc cataloging, cross-platform data spanning, and disc restoration.
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Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched Qflix, today announced that LaCie has selected Sonic as the software provider for worldwide shipments of the company's new professional Blu-ray Disc burning solution. The new LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive features Roxio Toast 7 Titanium, the first Blu-ray-enabled software for the Mac OS, and a special Blu-ray capable version of Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 for Windows. The applications deliver a range of Blu-ray Disc burning functions including the ability to archive as much as 50GB of data on a BD-R (recordable) or BD-RE (rewritable) disc, BD image-to-disc recording, and disc-to-disc copying. The combination of Roxio and LaCie technology can be purchased at the LaCie Store online (www.lacie.com/shop) and will be available throughout LaCie's specialized dealer network in January for a suggested retail price of $1149.00.If you'd like to read more, Sonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
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Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched RecordNow 9 Music Lab Premier. Building on RecordNow's reputation as the leading music CD and DVD burning solution, RecordNow Music Lab Premier adds a comprehensive suite of next generation software tools for the creation, editing, and management of digital audio and is available now at www.roxio.com for a suggested price of $49.99.RecordNow Music Lab Premier is available now for a suggested price of $49.99. A second version, RecordNow Music Lab, will be available in early 2007 for $29.99. More information can be found on Sonic's website. Add a comment
Designed to enable consumers to make the most of their digital audio collections, this new Vista-compatible audio suite combines many significant audio capture, editing and management functions into a single intuitive suite of software applications. Key features include the AutoMix music compilation tool that allows users to instantly create playlists according to their musical taste or preferred genre, tools for removing noise from analog recordings, a multi-format audio converter that lets users easily and quickly transfer files from one audio format to another, a web radio capture application for storing songs for off-line listening, and a UPnP audio server that allows users to stream their music collection from their PC to any UPnP-compatible device.
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Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC - News), the leader in digital media software, today launched Qflix, a licensing and certification program to enable the legal, secure, and reliable burning of video content to DVDs playable on standard and high-definition players. The Qflix technology and intellectual property program empowers for the first time factory, in-store, and in-home systems for on-demand, electronic sell-through of movies and video programs that can be recorded to DVD with Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption. As the industry-approved content protection mechanism used on mass-produced discs and incorporated into all DVD players, CSS has been deemed essential by major content providers for the on-demand digital distribution of premium entertainment. The Qflix brand will appear on compatible drives, media, and video download services as a symbol for consumers looking for legitimate and reliable "purchase, download, and burn" home solutions.Sonic plans to roll out Qflix Pro in early 2007 with the consumer Qflix program being launched shortly after. If you'd like to read more, Sonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
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To kick off the new year, Slysoft also has a promotion going where you can save $5 off the cost of a single license. This can also be applied to their bundles, letting you save up to $20. Simply enter the coupon code "vista" at the bottom of the check out form. This promotion ends on January 17th, 2006. Add a comment
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CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today announced movie playback software CyberLink PowerDVD, video editing software PowerDirector, and data burning software Power2Go, are certified for Windows Vista.Vista certified versions of PowerDVD, PowerDirector and Power2Go will be available online in January of 2007. More information can be found on CyberLink's website. Add a comment
"CyberLink PowerDVD, PowerDirector, and Power2Go are ready for the transition to Windows Vista, allowing users continue to enjoy the quality and performance they have come to expect from these leading applications," said Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink. "By completing the certification process for Windows Vista, we ensure that our customers and partners can enjoy consistent performance on the new operating system."
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CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a world leader in digital home solutions, today launched the HD DVD and Blu-ray version of its industry-defining movie player software, PowerDVD. Featuring optimized hardware acceleration for graphics processors, and compatibility with leading HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc drives, PowerDVD Ultra delivers the ultimate high-definition movie experience on both desktop and notebook computers.PowerDVD Ultra is available now for USD 99.95/Euro 99,95. More information, including a list of new features, can be found on CyberLink's website. Add a comment
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MadZ Software announces the release of version 1.0 of its Clone DVD Pro software. Clone DVD Pro 1.0 makes backup copies of your favorite DVDs.It's going to be interesting to see who sues MadZ Software first. The name Clone DVD Pro is a bit too similar to Slysoft's CloneDVD software. And, with its ability to backup CSS protected discs, the MPAA probably won't be too happy either. If you'd like to read more, MadZ Software's entire announcement can be found here. Add a comment
With Clone DVD Pro, you can quickly and easily copy almost all DVDs including original DVDs, DVD copies, even downloaded DVDs. You can choose which titles and chapters are copied and even preview them prior to copying. Also, you can rip DVDs to create DVD Video_TS folders or DVD ISO/UDF image files on your computer hard drive, and you can burn existing Video_TS folders or ISO/UDF image files from your hard drive to DVDs.
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NCH Swift Sound, specialists in business and audio software, announced the release of ExpressBurn v3.00 with Blu-ray and HD-DVD support.ExpressBurn v3.00 is available now and can be purchased directly from NCH for $27US. More information can be found here. Add a comment
"We have made the leap into Blu-ray technology even though it is still emerging and pricing for hardware is currently restrictive for the average consumer," said Stephanie Lee, sales manager for the Canberra based company. "The data storage capacity that Blu-ray allows for was the main reason to support it now rather than later. It compliments our range of applications such as our PC based call and radio logging application, VRS, because of the ability to archive an enormous amount of audio recordings on the one disk."
ExpressBurn v3.00 supports both single and duel layer disks with write and re-write capabilities (BD-R, BD-RE, BD-R DL, BD-RE DL) as well as Data HD-DVD, DVD and Audio/Data CDs. Using proprietary optimizing systems it is one of the fastest CD/DVD/Blu-ray writing programs in the world.
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Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today announced that SnapStream, a leading developer of digital home products, has chosen Sonic's comprehensive authoring, encoding, and formatting engine, AuthorScript to bring DVD burning capabilities to Beyond TV, the company's award-winning PC Digital Video Recorder (DVR) application. Available now, the optional DVD-burning plug-in enables Beyond TV owners to author DVDs of saved TV shows for playback on a broad range of set-top DVD players. This latest agreement reinforces the versatility of AuthorScript, which was also selected recently to enable DVD recording features in Windows Vista and high-quality DVD playback in a future version of Nintendo's Wii gaming console.This plug-in is available now and comes as part of Beyond TV 4.5. If you'd like to read more, Sonic's entire press release can be found here. Add a comment
