Image Entetainmentís In-House DVD Production

Image Entertainment, a leading licensee and distributor of optical video disc programming, has abandoned the outsourcing trend and brought DVD production in-house. The company has selected the Minerva Systemís Compressionist 250 MPEG-2 VBR (variable bit rate) and Audio Compressionist encoding systems to support its new pre-mastering operation for DVD-Video with DolbyÆ Digital and DTSÆ Digital Surround soundtracks The systems are scheduled to become operational this summer.""Bringing the Minerva systems to Image goes a long way to bring our DVD strategy full-circle,"" said Martin W. Greenwald, Image President and CEO."" With our growing number of DVD titles, bringing this work in-house allows Image to better control the DVD pre-mastering process. Ultimately, this will result in substantial production cost savings on a per-title basis.""