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HEURIS and Daikin Announce
Partnership
Daikin and HEURIS announce
intention
to offer turnkey DVD solutions
NAB, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 5, 1998 — HEURIS,
a leading provider of MPEG encoding solutions for professional digital video applications,
and Daikin, the world’s leading supplier of authoring and premastering tools for
DVD-video and DVD-ROM production today announced their intent to form a new business and
technical partnership. This partnership was formed to support Daikin and HEURIS’
mutual business strategy designed to bring the best available DVD products together into
an integrated suite of DVD tools.
"Daikin’s partnership with HEURIS is essential to
bringing DVD to the wider market," said Noriyuki Inoue, President of Daikin
Industries, Ltd. "Daikin’s open system partnership with HEURIS complements our
intention to provide the best available world-class DVD products to the market."
"It’s important for each of our companies to focus
on what we do best," says Brian Quandt, President of HEURIS. We’re shipping the
best DVD encoder, and Daikin is shipping the best DVD authoring tools. By combining our
talents, we’re able to bring the best solution to the market—and do it very
quickly."
HEURIS offers a wide range of MPEG encoding software
including the award winning MPEG Power Professional™ and MPEG Power
Professional-2™, as well as MPEG Power Professional-DVD™. The products give
professional content creators and video application developers a cost effective
alternative to MPEG encoding hardware while still providing high quality output suitable
for a wide range of multimedia and video transmission applications such as sales
presentations, interactive kiosks, corporate training, web pages, and DVD. The products
are both flexible and comprehensive, supplying easy templates that optimize compression
for MPEG beginners, plus advanced customization features that allow experienced
professionals to control encode parameters.
Daikin is the world’s leading supplier of DVD authoring
tools. First released in 1996, Scenarist™ allows users to develop titles which are
fully compliant with the DVD-Video specifications. With over 240 copies sold worldwide to
a wide variety of customers from Hollywood post-production companies to DVD replication
houses, Scenarist’s proven technology helps customers create reliable DVD titles
compatible with any available DVD player or DVD-ROM drive.
About HEURIS
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is the
developer of the most widely used professional MPEG encoder, MPEG Power
Professional™. This award-winning, cross-platform software product is the first MPEG
encoder to deliver the features and encoding quality demanded by professionals, without
the expensive hardware. MPEG Power Professional is used by professional video editors and
other creators of digital content to convert video, film, animation, special effects and
graphics clips into MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams. MPEG is used with CD-ROMs DVDs, video
kiosks, and over the Internet. HEURIS has been working with MPEG since 1991, and its
customers include: The Colorado Rockies, Sea World, The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas,
Electronic Arts, IBM, Vanderbilt University, EDS and the U.S. Military. HEURIS can be
found on the World Wide Web at http://www.heuris.com.
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 worldwide
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. 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 a
top ranking manufacturer of commercial and industrial air conditioning systems,
fluorochemicals, oil hydraulic and lubrication equipment, defense products, vacuums,
cryogenics, and medical equipment.
Daikin is located at 999 Grant Avenue, Novato, CA 94945.
Telephone: 415-893-7800. Fax: 415-893-7807. Daikin can also be reached via the World Wide
Web: www.scenarist.com.
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