Creative Ships WinDVD; European Division Delivers InterVideos Acclaimed Software DVD Player
InterVideo, Inc. (""IVI"") has announced that Creative Labs is now bundling WinDVD with a number of its industry leading audio, video and DVD drive products beginning immediately. Initially, WinDVD will be included with the Creative Sound Blaster Live Player 1024 audio card and the PC-DVD Blaster 6X DVD-ROM drive kit in Europe. ""Creative Labs offers InterVideo the market-breakthrough opportunity we've been waiting for,"" declared Joe Monastiero, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for InterVideo. ""Their decision to include WinDVD with a variety of their graphics, audio and DVD products will certainly send a signal to the PC industry."" WinDVD's impressive list of features includes an advanced intuitive user interface, software video window scaling, software and hardware sub-picture alpha blending, software video signal de-interlacing, and software color and brightness control. WinDVD includes state-of-the-art support for VCD disc and MP3 audio file playback, DVD region control and the most powerful and responsive DVD navigator in the industry. The software has claimed a number of industry firsts, including support for the Microsoft Windows NT4 OS and multi-channel Dolby Digital certification. WinDVD has been unanimously praised throughout the PC industry for its exceptional video quality. WinDVD supports all of the industry standard DVD APIs, including DirectShowô, DirectDrawô and DirectSoundô, and is legacy compatible with the MCI interactive title standard. In addition, InterVideo has a unique application interface layer to allow WinDVD to quickly support any graphics adapter with DVD hardware-assist features, like motion compensation and IDCT. WinDVD's architecture is uniquely modular and tightly tailored to the DVD specification and the ntricacies of the PC system environment, providing the most seamless navigation experience available. Source: Business Wire