ASTARTE Announces DVDirectorô 1.7.1

ASTARTE GmbH today announced DVDirector 1.7.1, which adds support for creating multi-angle titles to its popular DVD authoring application for the Macintosh. The new version supports the full eight angles allowed by the DVD specification. The addition of multi-angle support means that even the most advanced titles can now be created with ASTARTEís easy-to-use tools. Like all the features in DVDirector, creating a multi-angle title is as simple as drag-and-drop. The unique Property Inspector window means you never have to remember obscure commands or settings. Everything is laid out for you, greatly reducing the time it takes to build a title.State-Of-The-Art SimpleASTARTEís primary design goal for DVDirector is to get the technology out of the way of the creative process. This new version continues that approach by allowing content creators the incredibly flexibility of multiple angle presentations without burdening them with any of the arcane details of the DVD specification.Free Upgrade For Existing CustomersDVDirector 1.7.1 will be available for download at www.astarte.de/dvd on January 15th. It will also be included with new copies of DVDirector, DVDirector Pro, and DVDirector RT, priced at $5399, $9899, and $5999, respectively.About ASTARTE GmbHASTARTE GmbH is a privately held company, formed in 1992. The company, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, develops and distributes software for DVD authoring and multimedia production. ASTARTEís products include DVDirectorô and DVDirector Proô, the professional authoring suites for DVD-Video; DVDelightô, a simple tool for easy creation of linear DVD-Video titles; DVDExportô, a Macromedia Director Xtra which allowsproducers to author DVD-Video titles using Director; M.Pack, a software-based MPEG-2 encoder, and A.Pack, a Dolby Digital professional AC-3 encoding system.

For further information, contact Mike Evangelist, ASTARTE USA at 651 653 6247, E-mail: mike.evangelist@astarteusa.com, Internet: http://www.astarte.de/dvd, or Freddie Geier, ASTARTE GmbH, Germany at +49-(0) 721-98-55 40, E-mail: freddie.geier@astarte