Genie-Soft, October 17 - 2004 - Genie-Soft software, developer of novel backup and security solutions, today announced an agreement to license DVD authoring technology from Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ:SNIC), the world's leading supplier of authoring systems for DVD-Video production. The technology that Genie-Soft has licensed from Sonic will serve to strengthen Genie-Soft products' by enhancing its capability to backup to optical media.
Under the terms of the agreement, Genie-Soft will license Sonic's industry leading AuthorScriptT formatting engine to be integrated into the company's main backup solution Genie Backup Manager Pro for the month of October, and with other Genie-Soft software titles and future releases in months to come.
"DVDs are quickly becoming one of the leading used storage media for backup purposes, with that in mind, Genie-Soft needed to offer its software users impeccable backup solutions that support all CD/DVD media formats with flawless performance," said Taleb Hammad, Senior Vise President at Genie-Soft. He added "That is where Sonic Solutions comes in. They are the leaders in authoring systems and their superior AuthorScript engine will ensure that our customers will have the best backup to optical media experience."
The new engine will among other things add Unicode filename support and support for dual layer DVD burners to Genie-Soft's optical media handling. |
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