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October 26, 1999 Vancouver, Canada -- QDesign Corporation, the leading provider of digital audio compression technologies, announced today the release of MVP, the Company's new digital music application for creating, playing and managing MP3 and other digital music content on both MacOS and Windows 95/98/NT platforms.
“Music over the Internet is about great audio and video. It’s about compelling multimedia content, user interactivity and music portability,” says Richard J. Beaton, president of QDesign. “The release of MVP represents QDesign’s first step towards delivering an integrated platform designed to maximize consumers’ digital music experience on the multimedia desktop and digital audio devices.” In conjunction with the launch of MVP, MVPsite.com will feature new music from Atomic Pop recording artists Public Enemy, Ice T, Gas Giants and Flashpoint for download. Consumers will be able to download both the audio and video for Public Enemy’s new release, "Do You Wanna Go Our Way???" "Atomic Pop is committed to leveraging the digital medium on behalf of our artists via new and innovative technologies," says Al Teller, Atomic Pop's founder and CEO. "MVP makes it easier for fans to create, store and playback their audio and video files." Availability MVP is available NOW (MacOs and Windows 95/98/NT) and can be downloaded for FREE from the MVP website at www.MVPsite.com and from CNET at www.Download.com. After a 30-day trial period, unlimited MP3 encoding is available for an upgrade price of only US$19.95. Users will have unlimited access to the QDesign Music format for high-quality digital music encoding. QDesign is a member of the Recording Industry Associations (RIAA) Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). In upcoming versions of MVP, QDesign will support SDMI guidelines for protecting content owners rights in managing access and distribution of content. Next generation digital music players from Texas Instruments OEMs will have the ability to play back QDesign Music files. To find out more about the QDesign Music technology, visit the QDesign website at www.qdesign.com. For information about licensing or partnership, please contact Mandy Chan, Vice-President of Business Development for QDesign, via email at mchan@qdesign.com or by phone at 604-688-1525 ext. 24. About QDesign QDesign Corporation has been delivering state-of-the art audio solutions to the broadcast and new media industries since 1995. The Company introduced the world's first real-time MPEG-2 stereo compression software in October 1996, making available for the first time, high-quality, high-performance MPEG sound to all broadcast and studio professionals. In January 1998, QDesign launched the QDesign Music Codec as the Internet audio solution for QuickTime, bringing to audio and multimedia professionals "the Best Audio Product of 1999" according to New Media Magazine. This past summer the Company introduced its own implementation of MP3, the most popular format for on-line music download. QDesign's codec technologies appear in hardware processors, digital audio production, automation and distribution systems as well as professional and consumer multimedia software. For additional information, please visit the QDesign website at www.qdesign.com. |
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The MVP application enables users to record directly from CD to MP3 and QDesign Music formats. High quality MP3 files can be created from 64kbits to 192kbits/s. For even higher quality audio at lower data rates (less disk space), users can encode in the QDesign Music format where full-bandwidth 44.1kHz stereo audio can be produced at less than 2 percent of the original file size. With QuickTime 4 installed as the core media playback engine, MVP offers full support for play back of all popular digital audio formats (CD Audio, AIFF, WAV, and others), as well as, most digital music videos available on the Web and enhanced CDs.