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Microsoft WMV9 & WMV HD Announcements

Microsoft Announces Breakthrough High-Definition Video Production Solutions for Windows XP

Today at NAB2004, Microsoft Corp. announced that Windows® XP and Windows Media® 9 Series are powering leading software and hardware solutions for the professional film, video and broadcast production community, and enabling real-time, end-to-end, high-definition (HD) video production on the desktop for the first time. Solutions from Adobe, BOXX Technologies Inc. and CineForm Inc. are now available for Windows XP, making desktop real-time, multistream, 10-bit high-definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI) video editing a reality. In addition, real-time Windows Media Video 9 Series HD (WMV HD) encoding is being demonstrated at the show, with both software-only and hardware-accelerated solutions.

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Microsoft Announces Leading Broadcast Companies to Deploy Products and Services Based on Windows Media 9 Series

Microsoft Corp announced that leading broadcast companies are developing or deploying tools and services that support Microsoft® Windows Media® 9 Series. Among the companies adopting Windows Media 9 Series for its high quality and compression efficiency are Rainbow DBS, the satellite services division of Cablevision Systems Corp.; Akimbo Systems; Shanghai Broadcasting Lab; and U.S. Digital Television Inc. (USDTV).

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Microsoft and Sonic Unveil DVD Authoring Application For Windows Media Video High-Definition

Today at NAB2004, Microsoft Corp. and Sonic Solutions unveiled DVD Producer (TM) -- WMV HD Edition, a special version of Sonic's award-winning professional authoring application that supports the production of DVD titles using Microsoft® Windows Media® Video High-Definition (WMV HD). WMV HD delivers dramatically superior image quality with high-definition video at data rates comparable to standard-definition DVD video.

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