InterVideo Ships Four New Components in WinCinema Suite; WinRip, WinDVR, WinCoder and MyDVD for CD Now Available on InterVideo Website

Business Wire, June 4, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

TAIPEI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001

InterVideo, the leading developer of digital video and audio software for the PC, announced today the availability of four new products in the WinCinema(TM) Suite of fully integrated multimedia software components for PC users.

Since March of this year, InterVideo has shipped WinRip(TM), an MP3 player/encoder containing InterVideo's patent-pending InterVideo Data Injection (IDI) technology; WinDVR(TM), InterVideo's software-only digital VCR; WinCoder(TM), InterVideo's real-time MPEG-1 & 2 capture software; and MyDVD for CD(TM), InterVideo's DVD authoring software for CD-R/RW drives.

"While it's been a great ride to the top with our flagship WinDVD(R) software, it was never our intention to be a one-horse software company," noted Joe Monastiero, InterVideo's Sr. VP of worldwide sales and marketing. "With the addition of the four new products to the WinCinema line-up, our customers now have available to them an integrated suite of advanced digital video and audio tools to satisfy the majority of their needs both today and into the future."

WinRip Creates Enhanced MP3s

WinRip offers a complete audio and visual music experience by providing users the ability to playback their favorite MP3s enhanced with InterVideo's Data Injection technology. With IDI, artists and users have the ability to enter text and lyrics manually or import them from other sources. WinRip Studio, the version designed exclusively for artists and other music content owners, adds the ability to inject web links which can display data such as artist biographies, tour schedules, CD information, contest information, photos, merchandise offers and much more.

For music enthusiasts, WinRip offers rapid CD-to-MP3 file transfer, user-defined music file management, smart search capability (artist, genre, etc.), and DSP effects such as echo, surround, karaoke and tone control. In compact mode WinRip also lets users change the look and feel of the product with a number of downloadable "skins", and supports `plug-in' applications that enhance the playback environment with colorful graphics that respond to music tempo and dynamics.

"There are now over 800,000 WinRip Enhanced MP3s available for download on MP3.com, and artists are creating more every day. We're very excited to be able to deliver this new audio/visual experience to consumers through digital music files, and to be able to connect artists with their fans through our IDI technology," said Tom White, senior director of Audio Marketing for InterVideo.

PC Personal Video Recorder

WinDVR works with both internal PC tuner cards and external USB tuners providing recording and playback features similar to those of hardware-based, consumer living room personal video recorders. By exploiting the convergence of MPEG video compression with plummeting prices for PC data storage, WinDVR brings the full benefits of tape-free television recording and playback to the home computer user. Viewers can choose to encode their video using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 compression at various resolutions, from DVD-quality to space-saving VCR quality.

Registered WinDVR users can access InterVideoTV.com -- a U.S. Web-based cable and satellite programming guide -- and easily integrate the information with WinDVR's WinScheduler module. InterVideoTV.com, in partnership with TVGrid.com, provides an electronic programming guide, instantly compiled according to the viewer's postal code and satellite/cable service provider information. WinScheduler monitors programming activity and automatically launches WinDVR for scheduled recordings. Recorded programs are available for playback at the user's convenience.

Time-shifted recording and playback is built into WinDVR, allowing viewers to simultaneously record and watch programs, with the freedom to pause at any time and to skip the commercials that they've seen over and over again. Time shifting works by allowing the viewer to pause the decoded video playback while continuing to record the incoming video stream. The viewer can then resume playback from the saved video file, with the convenience of being able to skip through recorded station breaks and commercials. WinDVR also allows instant replay of incoming video streams or recorded programs.

Capture DVD Quality Videos

With InterVideo's WinCoder, the suite's MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 software-only encoder, users can take video and audio from all popular sources (including analog and digital camcorders, VCRs, analog cameras, USB cameras, and other A/V sources) and encode it in real time into compact MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files. With dramatically reduced file sizes that retain high video quality, WinCoder makes capturing and storing high quality video and audio practical for almost any PC user. WinCoder's compressed video files occupy up to 20 times less disk space than the DV-AVI format commonly used today.

"Until now, real-time MPEG-2 capture has required expensive compression hardware, which was beyond the budget of most casual video users," said Michael Demeyer, senior director of Video Product Marketing for InterVideo. "With the cost of analog and 1394 capture boards approaching $50, WinCoder makes high-quality video both practical and affordable for everyone."