InterActual Enhanced DVD Wins Best Of DVD-ROM Award; DVD Entertainment Awards Honor New Line Home Entertainmentís The Lord Of The Rings Special Extended DVD Edition

7-Sep-04

InterActual, a subsidiary of Sonic Solutions announced that New Line Home Entertainmentís The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended DVD Edition received the 2004 award for best title in the PC Support & DVD-ROM Features category at the 2004 DVD Entertainment Awards Ceremony during the Entertainment Media Expo recently held in Hollywood, California. The most prestigious awards ceremony of its kind, the DVD Entertainment Awards, hosted this year by Leonard Maltin, recognizes the features unique to a filmís DVD release that enhance the viewing experience for consumers. This year marks seven straight years that InterActual-enhanced titles have dominated the DVD-ROM category. ìWe are delighted to receive this award on behalf of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended DVD Edition,î said Mike Mulvihill, Vice President of Content Development at New Line Home Entertainment. ìFans of the motion picture trilogy have come to expect the most elegant and extravagant presentation of this epic adventure, and InterActualís technology has allowed us to deliver on that expectation.î ìThe filmmakers have created a meticulously detailed interpretation of Tolkienís Middle-earth and its various cultures. We felt an obligation to allow viewers to engage with this material, as one might study artifacts in a museum,î said Jean-Paul Leonard, design director at Company Wide Shut. ìInterActualís technology provided us with the solid interactive platform upon which to deliver that goal.î The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended DVD Edition includes exciting extras such as ìGollumís Song,î free digital sheet music by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, provided compliments of Musicnotes.com and Warner Bros. Publications. Also included is an extensive array of DVD bonus features designed by Company Wide Shut of Los Angeles, including: --Sarumanís Book: This feature lets viewers browse and explore Sarumanís books of lore. --The Character Palantir: Based on the mysterious ìSeeing Stones,î this feature incorporates a unique interface to the filmís footage plus bonus features that show the relationships between the storyís characters. --Cast and Crew Palantir: In-depth and interactive information about the cast and crew. --The Muralís of Rivendell: The wall paintings of --Rivendell reveal much of the history of the Elves in Middle-earth. This gallery highlights and explains the images that appear in the film. ìWe are delighted that New Line Home Entertainment and Company Wide Shut rely on InterActual technology to tell a deeper story that goes beyond the theatrical or even standard DVD experience,î says Gunthar Hartwig, Program Director at InterActual Technologies. ìWith our industry-standard InterActual Player already installed in millions of DVD-equipped PCs, our clients have a highly compatible and stable platform from which to enrich their DVD titles.î The DVD Entertainment Awards are administered by the International Recording Media Association (IRMA) and CMP Information, Inc. For more information on the 2004 awards, please visit www.recordingmedia.org/conferences/emx/dvdawards/.

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