Constellation 3D And Sonic Collaborate To Put HDTV Content Onto FMD Optical Media

18-Oct-00

Constellation 3D, Inc.and Sonic Solutions announced a collaborative effort to master high definition video content for C3D's Fluorescent Multilayer Disc (FMD) using Sonic's award-winning DVD authoring system, DVD Creator. The FMD - an optical disc capable of holding up to 100GB of data - can store up to 11 hours of HDTV content in the 1080i and 720p formats. Special versions of the FMD disc are also being designed for post production, mastering, broadcasting, video/data archiving and digital cinema applications. The FCC and the United States Congress have mandated that every television broadcasting station in the USA must by 2006 broadcast their entire programming in HDTV format. The FMD video format, based on Advanced Television Standards Committee (ATSC) HDTV formats (including 1080i and 720p), will offer higher resolution, higher bit rates and greater realism than current consumer video formats. FMD playback systems for digital cinema, HDTV and personal video recorders are currently under development with industry partners and will be demonstrated in the coming months to the broadcast and movie industries. These systems, due for commercial release next year, are based on inexpensive red laser and are therefore capable of playing current CD and DVD content. Another system in development includes a playback system based on C3D's credit-card-sized FMC video ""ClearCard"", with a capacity of 5GB per side. For more information about Sonic Solutions, visit www.sonic.com. For more information about Constellation 3D, Inc., visit www.c-3d.net.

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