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QDesign Music Codec Wins Top Audio Honors for 1999 from NewMedia Magazine
Vancouver, BC, Canada - February 8th, 1999 - QDesign
Corporation, a leading provider of audio compression technologies, announces
that its Professional Edition of the QDesign Music Codec has won two prestigious
Hyper Awards from NewMedia Magazine: the 1999 Hyper Award for Best Web
Audio Product and the 1999 Hyper Award for the Best of Audio Category.
There are 7 other Best of Category award winners for server OS, portable
computing, DV camcorder, 3D Modeling and Animation, DVD-Video Authoring,
Presentation, and E-Commerce Platform.
The NewMedia Hyper Awards are among the most coveted in the industry amongst
new media developers. As featured in the February 1999 issue of New Media,
"The New Media Hyper Awards celebrates the best in cutting-edge software
and hardware products and technologies for creating and presenting digital
media. To award them a place on our pages, we forced these winners to
walk through fire." To see the article on-line, please visit: NewMedia
Magazine.
In response to receiving the top spots for the Audio categories, Mr. Richard
Beaton, President and CTO of QDesign says, "We are extremely honored with
receiving these Hyper Awards from NewMedia Magazine. We believe that the
QDesign Music Codec offers the highest standard for publishing audio on
the Web or CD-ROM. We are continuing to push the quality and performance
envelope to ensure the next release of the QDesign Music Codec brings
even greater fidelity and functionality."
Unlike any other compression scheme, the QDesign Music Codec offers full-bandwidth,
44.1kHz stereo sound to stream over a 28K modem at unsurpassed quality.
Since its introduction as the audio compression solution for Apple QuickTime
3 in the Spring of 1998, the QDesign Music Codec has developed worldwide
industry recognition for bringing the best solution for publishing high
quality audio on the Web. Audio encoded in the QDesign Music Codec format
can be added to over 100 other media types supported by QuickTime 3, including
Sorenson Video, interactive images, sprites, animation, midi, and many
more.
About QDesign
QDesign Corporation develops and markets state-of-the art audio compression
technologies to the broadcast and new media industries. QDesign's technologies
appear in hardware processors, digital audio production systems, broadcast
automation and distribution systems as well as consumer multimedia applications.
The company's latest technology is the QDesign Music Codec - incorporated
as the audio compression solution in Apple QuickTime 3 for both MAC and
Windows OS - which streams 44.1kHz stereo sound at unprecedented quality
over a 28K modem. QDesign's technologies are used in Internet streaming,
production, archive, broadcast, and new media applications by organizations
including Apple Computer, Associated Press, BBC, Sony Worldwide Networks,
Res Rocket's RocketControl, and Iomega. For more information, please visit
us on the Web at www.qdesign.com.
Contact:
QDesign Corporation
media@qdesign.com
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