Looking for who said what in the sound world? Well there is no better place to find every audio related press release than 3DsoundSurge.!

Recordable DVD Applications Span the Complete Range of Consumer to Business and A/V to Computer-based Applications

``One of the primary goals of the Recordable DVD Council is to assist software and hardware vendors by promoting a better understanding of the three DVD Forum-approved recordable DVD formats,'' said council chairman Bon-Guk Koo, senior corporate advisor and former executive vice president of Samsung Electronics. The exhibit is part of a new outreach program the RDVDC launched this week to expand the recordable DVD market worldwide. Program plans include major trade show activities and information exchange among council members, as well as business and consumer educational/ informational programs.

``Products that are produced to the DVD Forum specifications have been enhancing the DVD experience of users for more than three years,'' he emphasized. `` Now it is our task to help businesses and consumers understand the benefits of these proven standards and their use in audio, video and computer devices such as DVD recorders, DVD drives, DVD cameras and other applications.''

Compliance with the DVD Forum's recordable DVD formats has been a key factor in driving the broad support of some of the industry's leading system and software producers. The user-proven DVD technologies meet the storage needs of personal and professional audio/video production and limited volume content distribution. The established formats also meet user requirements for backup, data archiving, radio and television broadcast storage and distribution, education, healthcare and enterprise knowledge management.

                        Industry Participants

Firms demonstrating their Forum-compliant recordable DVD -- DVD-RAM,
DVD-R, DVD-RW -- hardware and software products represent a
cross-section of hundreds of firms that incorporate and market the
advanced write-once/rewritable DVD technologies. They include:

ADS Technologies
AMC
ASACA
ATI
CyberLink
DAX Archiving Solutions
DISC
EZQuest
GEAR Software
Hitachi
Imation
InterVideo
JVC
Maxell
Optodisc
Panasonic
Pinnacle Systems
PowerFile
QPS
RAVISENT
Rimage
Ritek
Roxio
Samsung
Sherlock Systems
Software Architects
Sonic Solutions
Spatializer Audio Labs
Toshiba
VOB

                           Multiple Sources

Shipping for more than three years, the DVD Forum standard
DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW drives as well as the new multifunction
drives enable users to choose write-once and rewritable discs from a
wide range of media manufacturers including:

AMC
CMC Magnetic Corp.
Eastman KODAK
FujiFilm
Imation
JVC
Maxell
Mitsui
Mitsubishi Chemical
Panasonic
ProDisc
Optodisc
Ritek
TDK
Teijin
Toray
Verbatim

Additional Information

The DVD Forum is an industry association whose 230+ members include all major DVD manufacturers as well as major DVD software developers and DVD media producers around the world. For more information, visit www.dvdforum.org

The Recordable DVD Council (RDVDC) is dedicated to advancing DVD Forum-standard recordable DVD technologies and products worldwide. For more information, contact Tony Jasionowski, U.S. Program Coordinator, at 201.348.7777 or jasionowskit@rdvdc.org. Visit the Council's website at http://www.rdvdc.org/english.

Contact:

     Marken Communications
     Andy Marken, 408/986-0100
     andy@markencom.com