Source: Media 100 http://www.media100.com
Media 100 And ASTARTE Combine Efforts To Improve DVD Quality In Europe
Media 100 is teaming up with ASTARTE GmbH to dramatically improve the quality of DVD content creation and delivery tools throughout Europe. With this announcement, ASTARTE becomes the latest in a series of third parties to endorse Media 100's iFinish RealTimeMPEG option as the tool-of-choice for high-quality DVD authoring. Leveraging Media 100's iFinish, the world's first streaming media production solution, ASTARTE is bolstering its family of high- and low-end DVD authoring solutions, including DVDirector and DVDelight, with the industry's highest quality solution for creating MPEG2 output files - iFinish. Additionally, ASTARTE is leveraging key technology from Media 100's wholly-owned subsidiary, Wired Inc., to add state-of-the-art encoding capability to enable real-time MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding. Wired's Media Press solution provides ASTARTE's DVDirector solution with this unique capability, ensuring the highest possible image quality with tremendous timesavings.