Sonic Solutions(R) announced today that Toshiba has selected Sonic MyDVD to enable DVD creation on its new Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition notebook PCs. Included with the Toshiba Satellite 5205 and P25 series with Media Center Edition, Sonic MyDVD provides Toshiba users with a complete solution for turning their home videos, recorded television programs, music and digital photos into Hollywood-style DVDs with motion menu backgrounds, animated buttons and high-quality slideshows.
Powered by the Microsoft(R) XP Media Center operating system, powerful Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Processors, and Sonic MyDVD, the industry's leading DVD creation software, the Satellite 5205-S705 and P25-S607 ushers in a new era of digital convergence in personal computing, combining the best of home entertainment and mobile computing functionality into a single source. Sonic MyDVD and the laptop's built-in DVD Multi drive allow users to create and burn CDs and DVDs for the ultimate in entertainment and storage capacity. Additionally, with the integrated TV tuner, customers can easily record their favorite television programs or movies, ready for later viewing (via included Microsoft Windows XP Media Center software).
"Toshiba has consistently delivered high-performance, feature-rich PCs that include the latest available technologies for digital media creation," said Koki Terui, Senior Vice-president of Pacific Rim Operations at Sonic Solutions. "We are extremely pleased to have been selected by Toshiba to provide their Media Center Edition laptop users with the ability to create, watch and archive their DVD video projects anywhere, anytime."
About Sonic MyDVD
Sonic MyDVD is the leading PC application for consumer DVD creation. With its ability to record analog and digital video (DV) in real-time into MPEG-2 for DVD, MyDVD is the fastest and easiest way to share treasured video memories with friends and family on DVD discs, from wedding videos to children's birthday parties and other special events.
Sonic MyDVD makes it easy to burn high-quality DVDs with motion-video menus, animated buttons and True DVD Slideshows(TM) with transitions and soundtracks. Sonic MyDVD also features optimized Direct-to-DVD(TM) recording which allows users, in just a few clicks, to record their content directly to DVD from a video source connected to the computer's video input. Sonic MyDVD is also OpenDVD(TM)-compliant, enabling previously burned DVDs to be opened, re-edited, updated with new video and photo content and re-burned to DVD and CD recordable/re-writable media. This enables an entirely new generation of DVD and CD applications, such as video diaries, up-to-the-minute, customized sales presentations, compilations of family events, and more. Sonic MyDVD is optimized for Microsoft Windows XP - Media Center Edition.
About Toshiba Corporation
Toshiba Corporation is a world leader in the development and manufacture of information and communication systems, electronic devices and components, consumer products and power systems. The company's ability to integrate wide-ranging capabilities, from hardware to software and innovative services, assures its position as an innovator in diverse fields and many businesses. Toshiba has approximately 166,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over US billion.
About Sonic Solutions
Based in Marin County, California, Sonic Solutions (http://www.sonic.com) is the world's leading supplier of DVD creation software for professional, industrial and consumer applications. The majority of major film releases on DVD have been produced on Sonic's professional DVD authoring systems in studios around the world. Sonic's MyDVD(R) and DVDit!(R) are the most widely used DVD creation applications by consumers and video enthusiasts and are the solutions of choice among the key PC and after-market drive suppliers. Sonic's RecordNow(TM) is a leading solution for audio and data mastering. Sonic's AuthorScript(R), the DVD and CD formatting and burning engine that underlies Sonic's applications, is the most widely deployed DVD software engine and has been licensed by Adobe, Microsoft, Sony, and many others.
Sonic, the Sonic logo, Backup MyPC, CinePlayer, DVD PrePlay, DVD Producer, Edit-on-DVD, OpenDVD, PrimeTime, RecordNow and Simple Backup are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. AuthorScript, AutoDVD, DVD-Audio Creator, DVD Creator, DVDit!, DVD Fusion, MyDVD, NoNOISE, ReelDVD, Scenarist and Sonic Solutions are registered trademarks of Sonic Solutions. All other company or product names are trademarks of their respective owners and, in some cases, are used by Sonic under license. Specifications, pricing and delivery schedules are subject to change without notice.
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Source: Businesswire.com
