InterVideo Ulead - First To Announce Passing Of Blu-ray Disc Certification Testing

Disc Creation Software Takes a High-Definition Step

June 23, 2006

InterVideo®, Inc. (NASDAQ: IVII) and its partner Ulead® Systems, Inc. (TSE:2487), industry leaders in video, image and DVD software and members of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), announced today that InterVideo Ulead has met and passed all of the requirements from Blu-ray Disc License Entity. InterVideo Ulead is the first to announce certification of its Blu-ray Disc applications. InterVideo Ulead BD technologies include support for BD-R, BD-RE, BD-ROM and BD-J playback, authoring and burning which will be available in WinDVD BDTM and BD DiscRecorderTM, and will later be incorporated into the DVD MovieFactory® suite for video editing and DVD & Blu-ray Disc authoring. "We have been working long and hard towards this goal," said Steve Ro, CEO and President of InterVideo. "Being the first to market with BD-certified software is a fantastic feather in our cap and I would like to thank our dedicated team of engineers who made this possible. Now, users can finally take the high-definition video content they have created and burn it to Blu-ray Disc." WinDVD BD™ provides a total BD playback solution, including support for BDAV video format. WinDVD BD fully supports BDMV (movie) titles with parental and region controls and the highly-interactive features of the BD-J specification. This specification allows movie enthusiasts to take advantage of BD interactive playback features including subtitles, play modes, angles and Internet connectivity for content updates. BD DiscRecorder™ allows users to record high-definition video content from HDV camcorders to Blu-ray Disc in full HDV resolution. Video may be recorded directly to disc in real-time or first captured to the user's hard drive for editing. The editing features allow users to combine multiple standard or high-definition clips as well as trim and extract clips using Multi-Trim editing. DVD DiskRecorder™ Move SDK allows users to "move" recorded TV programs from hard drives to single-layer (25GB) or double-layer (50GB) re-recordable BD-RE discs. During the "moving" process, the video is recorded to Blu-ray disc using BDAV MPEG-2 TS (Transport Stream). The discs include AACS content protection to prevent potential hacking. DiscRecorder also supports "moving" TV-program video to DVD disc. While transcoding the video to DVD-VR format, DiscRecorder also incorporates CPRM content protection on the disc. DVD MovieFactory® is easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software for today's digital lifestyle. Users can turn their standard or HD video & photos into DVDs or Blu-ray Discs with studio-quality personalized menus. Availability InterVideo Ulead markets WinDVD BD, BD DiscRecorder, DVD DiskRecorder to hardware OEMs. The latest versions of DVD MovieFactory with Blu-ray support will be available on the company websites for electronic downloads. For more information, please visit http://www.intervideo.com or http://www.ulead.com.

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