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InterVideo and its partner Ulead, both video, image and DVD software companies as well as members of the HD DVD Promotion Group, today announced that they will demonstrate their HD DVD authoring and playback solutions at the HD DVD Promotion Group Seminar held at NEC, in Tokyo, Japan on May 18, 2006.

During the seminar, InterVideo Ulead will give a presentation on its HD DVD playback and professional HD DVD disc authoring and burning solutions.

InterVideo Ulead's HD DVD muxing engine technology has been endorsed by Toshiba and Memory-Tech Corp. (one of Japan's largest independent DVD equipment manufactures and disc replicators). Both Toshiba and Memory-Tech are members of the DVD Forum, founders of the HD DVD Promotion Group and have played key roles in the definition of the HD DVD Test Disc specification. HD DVD muxing engine technology is used in official HD DVD Test Discs, which hardware and software manufacturers use to ensure their playback systems are fully compatible with the HD DVD standard.

This is good new for Joe Consumer, too, as unlike the last generation of DVD, tooling and burning high definition content to HD DVD will be a consumer option out of the gate. So though the seminar looks to focus on things like rapid adoption and mass production, the usable, public incarnation of the technology being discussed can be found in the new iterations of InterVideo's long-running VideoStudio and Ulead's MovieFactory authoring software series and will be available in the next version of the ubiquitous WinDVD.