Daikin Creates Winners, Again
The results are in from the 2nd Annual Discus Awards for Creative Excellence and, for the second year running, five out of six of the award-winning titles were authored using Daikin's Scenarist. The titles nominated for the DVD awards represent the finest examples in the market today, and exemplify the best of DVD interactivity, design and production. Congratulations go to ""Encarta Reference Suite 99,"" produced, authored and released by Microsoft (best consumer DVD-ROM), ""411 Digital North America,"" produced by Tom Leone, authored by CRUSH Digital Video and released by LA 411 Publishing (best corporate DVD Video or ROM), ""Tender Loving Care,"" produced by Aftermath Media, authored by DVant Digital and released by DVD International (best technical achievement), and ""From Earth to the Moon""- disc #4, produced by Clavis Basa/Image, authored by AIX Media Group and released by HBO Home Video (best educational DVD Video or ROM) and ""From Earth to the Moon""- disc #4, with the package designed by EMA Multi Media and provided by IVY Hill Graphics (best DVD packaging). The winner for the best of the show was ""Encarta Reference Suite 99."" All of the above titles were authored using Daikin's Scenarist. ""From Earth to the Moon - disc #4 is one of the most interactive DVD discs we have authored,"" said Mark Waldrep, CEO and Chairman of AIX Media Group. ""We did it entirely on one of our Scenarist SGI systems. Scenarist made it possible."" ""Scenarist is the only authoring tool we have found that measures up to the unique DVD authoring challenges posed by complex projects like Tender Loving Care and Kingdom II Shadoan that are the focus of the cutting edge work we do at DVant Digital,"" said DVant's CEO, Gabriel Murano. ""We have used Scenarist for the past three years for DVD title development. Daikin has been there from the start, and continues to produce a great authoring tool,"" states Jeff Stabenau, President of CRUSH Digital Video. ""Scenarist allows Crush to create the complex, interactive DVD titles our clients have come to expect. Innovative DVDs, like the ""411 Digital Showreel,"" require all the complex features available that Scenarist can deliver."" ""It is a sensational feeling to know that you have been so instrumental in the success of an exciting technology such as DVD,"" said Tomoyoshi Ichioka, Senior Vice President of Operations at Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories. ""Scenarist's remarkable compatibility and unique ability to deal with high level of interactivity, the most compelling feature of the DVD technology, made it the overwhelming choice of the DVD authoring houses worldwide. It is not a coincidence that our Scenarist has produced eighty five percent of the award winning DVD titles."" About Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories Based in Novato, California, Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories is the center of operations for R&D, marketing and support for the worldwide distribution of the acclaimed series of DVD authoring and support tools, Scenarist, Scenarist EDK, DVD Informer, ROM Formatter and DVDwiz. Daikin U.S. Comtec Laboratories is a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. of Japan. For more information, contact 415 893 7807 or visit the Web site at www.scenarist.com.