Las Vegas, NV (April 6, 2003) - HEURIS and JVC are pleased to announce that the MPEG Power Professional—DTV HD software from HEURIS will be demonstrated with JVC’s professional PRO-HD D-VHS system including the SR-VDA300US Recorder and the SR-VD400US Player at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional—DTV HD is a software-only HD encoding package that runs on both Mac and PC platforms. HEURIS’ powerful software product allows customers to create ATSC compliant HD streams on the same computer system as their favorite HD non-linear editing system such as HD Boxx, Final Cut Pro, Avid|DS or animation program such as Adobe After Effects. Customers can choose either one-click built-in templates or a host of tweaking and filtering options for HD conversion including I-frame placement, frame-by-frame controls of filters, bitrate, and search algorithms. Other important features of the HD conversion software include those typically only found in very expensive hardware systems such as inverse telecine, automatic scene detection, and up conversion from non-HD formats. The HEURIS MPEG Power Professional—DTV HD software however, retails for less than $5,000.

The SR-VDA300US is a unique Pro-HD D-VHS recorder that accepts the native DVB-ASI data stream allowing direct recording of HD MPEG-2 transport streams from various sources. The HD MPEG-2 footage encoded with HEURIS MPEG Power Professional – DVT HD software, running on a Windows PC, can be recorded on the SR-VDA300US using an ASI interface. In addition, it has the ability to create original password protected recordings in Pro-HD D-VHS mode, allowing secure transport of high definition recordings that only play on professional model VCR’s for content creators.

 The SR-VD400US is an economical professional Pro-HD D-VHS player. This Pro-HD D-VHS player goes beyond the capabilities of consumer D-VHS players, by providing the ability to playback recordings in either the password-protected Pro-HD mode or consumer D-VHS mode, including JVC’s D-Theater protected pre-recorded software currently widely available in the United States. The combination of these components allows creators to generate password-protected content, encode better than ATSC HD formats at 25Mbs, and playback on a system capable of decoding the password protected material all for under $10,000.

"By making HEURIS HD MPEG2 software available, we provide an immediate solution for our users who purchase the SR-VDA300US PRO-HD D-VHS mastering recorder, particularly if they have limited budgets and short form programming", said Lawrence Librach, assistant vice president for business development for JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY.

"We are very pleased to be a part of JVC’s powerful suite of D-VHS products," said HEURIS President Brian Quandt. "JVC’s PRO-HD D-VHS products are breaking new ground for high definition delivery. And at this price point, we anticipate a lot of interest among our users."

A white paper that details the precise workflow of the HEURIS/JVC solution is available from on the HEURIS Web site at www.heuris.com.

Pricing and Availability

All components of the JVC system are currently available from JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY. For pricing and other information, please contact JVC at 1-800 582-5825 or visit the Web site at http://www.jvc.com/pro.

About HEURIS
Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS has served as a leading manufacturer of video compression and processing tools and applications for over a decade. From the Internet, to DVD, to HDTV to Hollywood Movies--HEURIS has developed an impressive group of award-winning tools for video production and post production applications.

Perhaps best known for its award-winning MPEG Power Professional Line of software products, HEURIS has recently released two new products for the Hollywood Market: a Digital Dailies solution developed in conjunction with partner Cohen Communications and MPEG Power Professional—D-Cinema used to encode High Definition pictures for display in movie theaters.

In addition, HEURIS has developed several key software products for the Consumer Electronics industry. In particular, HEURIS’ DVD ConnexIT line provides critical connectivity between rewritable DVDs and various other consumer electronic components. More information about HEURIS Logic is available at www.heuris.com.

About JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY

JVC PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS COMPANY, located in Wayne, New Jersey, distributes a complete line of broadcast and professional equipment. For more information about this, or any other JVC professional products, contact JVC at (800) 582-5825; or Beth Marotta at PFS Marketwyse 973-812-8883, or visit JVC’s Web site at http://www.jvc.com/pro.