News You Can Use From TiVo, Volume 62

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Microsoft, MTV, TiVo and Leading Networks Open New Sources For Portable Video

Microsoft and Partners Deliver Video Content to Windows Mobile-Based Devices With TiVoToGo, MTV Partnership and New MSN Video Downloads Service
The announcements highlighted a collaboration with TiVo Inc. to deliver recorded television to Portable Media Centers and Smartphones and Pocket PCs equipped with Windows Media�® Player 10 Mobile; an alliance with MTV Networks to deliver digital programming; and the unveiling of MSN�® Video Downloads, one of the first portable TV services, which will make TV shows and other video clips available to Windows Mobile-based portable devices from more than a dozen sources including FOX Sports, CNBC, MSNBC and Food Network.

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Sonic Launches World’s First TiVo® Service-enabled DVD Creation Solution for PC Users

MyDVD® Studio 6.1 Adds Integrated Support for TiVoToGo™, Allowing Transfer, Viewing, and DVD/CD Burning of Recorded Shows from a TiVo® Box
Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today launched MyDVD Studio 6.1, the world’s first line of TiVo® service-enabled DVD creation solutions for the PC. Shipping this month, the new version of Sonic’s award-winning MyDVD software is optimized for seamless integration with the TiVoToGo™ service enhancement from TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) Inc., the creator of and leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs). The combined Sonic and TiVo technologies, being demonstrated by the two companies at CES, will for the first time allow TiVo subscribers to use their PCs to transfer, view, and burn to disc (DVD-Video or Video CD) the shows they record on their home-networked TiVo boxes.

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Sonic Announces Support for Blu-ray Disc Data Recording

Sonic and Roxio Applications for CD and DVD Creation to Add Blu-ray Burning
Sonic Solutions® (NASDAQ: SNIC), the leader in digital media software, today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show that it will support the forthcoming Blu-ray data recording standard in its line of Sonic- and Roxio-branded consumer applications, as well as in its industry-standard AuthorScript® Software Development Kit (SDK) for CD and DVD creation. Working closely with the leading drive manufacturers implementing the Blu-ray format, Sonic is leveraging its advanced DVD recording technology, deployed on hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide, to deliver the industry’s first, next generation BD-RE and BD-R data recording applications when the first drives ship in the summer of 2005.

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Sonic and Panasonic Collaborate on Blu-ray Disc Authoring Systems for Hollywood Studios

Sonic and Panasonic Collaborate on Blu-ray Disc Authoring Systems for Hollywood Studios
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic brand products, and Sonic Solutions, the leader in digital media software, announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show their intention to collaborate on the development of authoring systems for Blu-ray Disc (BD)-ROM for professional use. The collaboration will speed the production of BD titles for commercial release.

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