Spruce Technologies DVDMaestro Wins NewMedia Magazine Hyper Award

Business Wire, Feb 8, 1999

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1999--Spruce Technologies DVDMaestro has received NewMedia magazine's 1999 Hyper Award in the DVD-Video Authoring System category. DVDMaestro is featured in the special awards section of the February issue of NewMedia magazine and on the NewMedia's web site at newmedia.com.

DVDMaestro is the leading Windows NT-based DVD authoring solution for both Hollywood and corporate applications. With thousands of successful titles already produced, DVDMaestro sets the standards for both ease-of-use and powerful functionality.

"Hyper Award winners represent the highest achievements in innovation and technical excellence among the vast array of new products and technologies for digital content creation," says NewMedia chairman and CEO Richard Landry. "These are the tools that make the digital content creator's life easier today, and will take digital media into the 21st Century."

Hyper Award winners are chosen by a panel of judges appointed by NewMedia magazine. Nominations are solicited from a wide variety of sources, including key industry analysts, contributing editors, NewMedia's editorial staff, and other industry experts. The awards cover 65 categories under the general headings of audio, CD/DVD, desktop, graphics, presentation, server, video, and Web.

"We are very pleased to have this team of industry experts affirm what our customers already know," says Joseph Matheny, Product Manager for Spruce Technologies. "DVDMaestro combines the most complete set of DVD authoring capabilities with an elegant interface that lets the user spend more time creating and less time struggling. We feel that just because DVD is new, the tools for implementing it shouldn't be raw and incomplete. DVDMaestro meets the challenges of today's most creative producers and makes the whole authoring process smoother for them."

NewMedia, the magazine for creators of the digital future, is published by HyperMedia Communications, Inc. and specializes in comprehensive comparative product reviews supported by the NewMedia Lab, a state-of-the-art digital testing studio. NewMedia serves 215,000 digital media professionals who buy and use digital media products and services.

Spruce Technologies was established to create and market a new generation of DVD authoring systems for both high-end Hollywood content and the growing and increasingly important corporate market. Based in San Jose, California, Spruce combines the best Silicon Valley software expertise with extensive DVD, MPEG and postproduction knowledge.

For more information contact Spruce at 408/861-2200. Additional information about Spruce is also available on the World Wide Web at: http:\\www.spruce-tech.com

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