GDMX Licences Zoo Solutions

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Zoo Digital Group PLC

26 May 2011

 



26^th May

ZOO Digital Group plc

("ZOO" or "The Group")

Global Digital Media Xchange Licenses Automated Blu-ray

and EST Production Solutions From ZOO Digital

ZOO Digital, the provider of software and software-led services for the filmed entertainment market, is pleased to announce that it has signed a licensing agreement with Global Digital Media Xchange Inc. (GDMX) that will provide shorter and streamlined programming using automated production solutions to support Blu-ray™ Disc and Electronic Sell Through (EST) platforms.

GDMX will use ZOO's systems to create Blu-ray Disc and digital products for VOD providers more quickly and efficiently, thereby reducing costs and time-to-market.  These systems provide an integrated and automated solution for the preparation of digital content, its regionalization into multiple languages and territory variants, and its assembly for full compliance with the Blu-ray Disc and EST formats.  ZOO's toolset can automatically adapt audio and video materials prepared for physical disc products so that the same titles can be prepared for sale via digital download more quickly and easily than would otherwise be possible, and thereby at a cost that is not prohibitive to the content owners. 

"As a world leader in digital video compression and authoring, we are committed to delivering excellent service and value to our home entertainment clients," said Brian McKay, Executive Vice President Production Operations.  "The adoption of ZOO's systems within our proven workflows will enable us to increase our throughput while reducing our costs, bringing significant benefits and improvements to our services."

Stuart Green, CEO of ZOO, commented: "As a leading provider of workflow automation solutions for the filmed entertainment market, we look forward to working with GDMX to enable more efficient production of Blu-ray discs and digital distribution titles."

For further enquiries please contact:

ZOO Digital Group plc	0114 241 3700
Stuart Green - Chief Executive Officer
Helen Gilder - Group Finance Director
FinnCap	020 7600 1658
Marc Young / Henrik Persson (corporate finance) Tom Jenkins / Joanna Weaving (corporate broking)
Threadneedle Communications	020 7653 9850
Josh Royston / Terry Garrett / Hilary Millar

Notes to Editors

About ZOO Digital Group plc: 

ZOO Digital Group plc is a provider of creative media transformation software and related services. ZOO's products form an integrated suite of desktop applications and on-demand systems that work with printed materials and audio/visual content, adapting these media to different languages, sizes, and technical formats.  ZOO makes this process extremely quick and cost effective and is clearly differentiated in the market.

ZOO's services are built on its proprietary patented software and enable customers to reduce considerably the costs and time to market of regionalized filmed entertainment titles and marketing campaigns across multiple territories and across a wide range of applications and formats, including printed materials, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, video on demand, electronic sell-through and broadcast. 

Working closely with language translation partners, ZOO's media adaptation software transforms computer-based workflows through radical process re-engineering and provides clear differentiation for the company's production, consulting and custom development services. 

ZOO is focused on the worldwide creative media production markets and in particular video production for entertainment applications, with customers including major film studios and other producers and publishers of video-based consumer products.

About Global Digital Media Xchange Inc. (GDMX):

GDMX, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment, is a global leader in the production and distribution of all forms of creative content, across all current and emerging technologies and platforms. The company stands at the forefront of the media and entertainment industry, supporting feature film, TV and home entertainment production for worldwide distribution to DVD and Blu-ray Disc, digital distribution, broadcast and syndication. GDMX has authored and encoded more motion pictures for DVD, Blu-ray Disc and Video on Demand (VOD) than any other facility in the world. 

 

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