July 18, 2001
NEW YORK, NY--July 18, 2001--Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA), a leading provider of digital media design and delivery solutions, today announced a significant upgrade to Cleaner 5, the award-winning media processing software for creating on-demand dynamic streaming media, that ensures support for streaming media output to QuickTime 5, RealSystem 8.5 and Windows Media 8 (Windows Media 7 for Mac), the three major player formats for streaming media on the Internet. The newest version of Cleaner 5 also includes support for the Sorenson Video 3 codec, which enables the delivery of high-quality streaming media for QuickTime. With this announcement, Media 100 is enabling its customers to create high quality streaming media content in multiple formats and at multiple data rates for digital media delivery on the Internet in the latest versions of the three major player formats. "With the new release of Cleaner 5, our customers will be able to tap into all the latest technologies when creating high-quality streaming media content," said Caren Anhder, senior product line manager, Media 100. "Releasing the new version of Cleaner 5 just on the heels of Sorensen Video 3 enables our customers to take advantage of the latest and greatest streaming technologies available from Media 100 and our strategic partners." The newest version of Cleaner 5, version 5.1, provides support for the newly released Sorenson Video 3 codec, both Standard and Pro Editions. With Sorenson Video 3 Pro Edition, Cleaner 5 will continue to provide customers with 2-pass variable bit rate encoding
. Sorenson Video 3 has been shown to give users better high-motion video quality than Sorenson Video 2 at less than half of the bit rate and at up to three times the speed.
About Cleaner 5
Cleaner is the industry-standard tool for adding dynamic, interactive streaming media and for delivery on the Internet, broadband, CD-ROM, kiosks, presentations, and DVD. The application supports all major video, audio, and still image formats, including Apple Computer's QuickTime, RealNetwork's RealSystem, Microsoft's Windows Media Technologies, MP3, MPEG and AVI.
Pricing and Availability
Cleaner 5, version 5.1, will be available this summer as a free download to current Cleaner 5 customers at www.media100.com. Cleaner 5 is available at an MSRP of $599 through select resellers and from the Media 100 Online Store.
About Media 100
Media 100 is a leading provider of digital media software and systems for creating and delivering high quality video and audio on the Internet, DVD, CD-ROM and broadcast media. Media 100's award-winning digital media solutions, including Cleaner 5, Cleaner Live, CineStream, iFinish 4 and Media 100 i, leverage the Company's unique Digital Media Workflow model to enable its more than 150,000 worldwide customer in entertainment, news media, corporate communications, education and the government to create compelling, interactive digital media content for broad distribution. For more information, visit www.media100.com.
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