Spruce And InterVideo Partner To Deliver WebDVD Player For All CD-ROM And DVD-ROM Equipped PCs

Spruce Technologies (www.sprucetechnologies.com) and InterVideo Inc. (www.intervideo.com) announced that they have partnered to deliver a WebDVD player for Windows-based PCs, which Spruce customers can freely distribute with titles they create using Spruce Convergenceô. When combined with Spruce's DVDonCDô technology, the new Convergence-Enabled player enables Spruce customers to distribute DVD-quality material for use with on any of the over 200,000,000 CD-ROM equipped PCs installed today. With the introduction of the new player, titles created using Spruce Convergence are optimized to work directly with InterVideo's renowned player engine. By including the player on their finished titles, DVD authors enable virtually any current Windows-based PC (98, 2000 and NT) to play DVD-quality titles without any additional specialized hardware or software. ""Spruce chose InterVideo Inc. because their player represents the highest level of performance and quality,"" said David Tinsley, Product Manager of Convergence for Spruce Technologies. ""We view the purpose of Convergence as truly integrating all aspects of the Web, e-commerce, local and remote streaming media, with a better-than-broadband quality experience. We have big plans over the next few months to solidify our position as the forerunner in this technology, including evolving this new product into a player that raises the benchmark for multimedia deliverables. This is more than another promise of what the future will bring. We are delivering it now! In fact, we have clients that have already created and distributed titles using this technology."" Spruce is the only DVD authoring system manufacturer that provides every one of its customers with the ability to easily embed text information such as URLs directly into a DVD title during the authoring process. DVD creators worldwide are already using Spruce Convergence to enhance the rich video and audio DVD experience with connectivity to the Web and external applications, without needing any programming experience. As a result, authors can spend their time focusing on developing the title's creative impact, rather than struggling with programming and technical issues. ""InterVideo delivers the top volume and top quality software DVD player in the industry, and Spruce Technologies has consistently delivered top quality authoring tools,"" said Raul Diaz, Vice President of Business Development for InterVideo. ""Combined with their DVDonCD and Convergence technology, InterVideo's hugely successful WinDVD player becomes the industry leading rich-media player for DVD and web content.""About InterVideo, Inc.InterVideo develops Web-enabled, multimedia software for Windows and Linux with special support for DVD, MPEG2 video encoding, DTV, and streaming video playback. InterVideo created WinDVD, the industry's leading 's software DVD player for the PC. Headquartered in Fremont, California, InterVideo has regional offices in Taiwan, Japan and Europe. For more information, contact InterVideo at www.intervideo.com.About Spruce Technologies, Inc.Spruce Technologies develops and markets Web-enabled DVD authoring software and MPEG encoders for the corporate, new media, and entertainment markets. Based in San Jose, California, Spruce combines the best Silicon Valley software expertise with extensive Internet, DVD, MPEG and video postproduction knowledge. For more information, contact Spruce at 408 861 2200 or visit www.sprucetechnologies.com.