Sonic Solutions is Ready For Digital Movies To Heat up

Sonic Solutions CEO Dave Habiger believes his big gamble on fire.

Sonic (steak), thanks to the popular CD-and DVD-burning software, Roxio Creator, which dominates its market. Habiger, but believes that the work of a small spark of the flame, compared to what he sees great future for the company: to provide software for the electronic transmission of digital film equipment sales and rent movies via the on-line service, Roxio CinemaNow.

"We have spent the past four years, and most of the money for this new," he says. "I finally came to a decision."

Sonic is also a professional tool to produce Hollywood DVD and Blu-ray discs. As the company prepared for the transition to DVD and Blu-ray, it arrived at the conclusion of the business world as we know it to rent and sell DVD - I think Netflix, Blockbuster, angular Video Store - Ready to exit. Habiger's view, the time has finally come for movies delivered over the Internet can be destroyed equipment such as televisions, mobile phones and ultra-portable computers known as netbooks.

"The idea that right now, there are some plastic balls ... which has been supplied to plants in Taiwan, and they are melted and pressed flat, and the film will play it, and this disc will be sent back to the United States ... That the model does not make sense anymore "he says.

For decades, Hollywood has salivated in the concept of saving on production and distribution costs goes directly to consumers, video on demand (VOD), but it is a slow process. Originally, the idea was that cable and satellite systems to build a reliable system to compete with any movie library.

While many of the players are more video-on-demand to work today, most of them do not come close to providing an on-line stores, such as Netflix, Amazon and Apple, which is pushed into selling their goals demand set-top boxes that plug into TV consumers.

"Connected" on Blu-ray players

Sonic plays on both sides of the field. It cooperates with the Taiwanese electronics giant Samsung's new type of "connected" on Blu-ray player. You can watch high-definition Blu-ray movie discs, but if you connect to the Internet, you can also see the Internet-delivered movies CinemaNow Roxio (at $ 3.99 pop) or Netflix. You can use YouTube videos as well.

Samsung introduced two models in May competitor Samsung has two, and more are expected by the end of the year, and the television can receive preloaded Internet channels, such as CinemaNow - or Blockbuster online channel, which leads to CinemaNow.

"Come home, consumers are difficult to find consumer electronics (hardware) that has nothing to do," says Habiger.

Sonic is also difficult for Hollywood to sell its software CineVision, which prepares the movie online store. Many studies now Sonic to offer the "digital copy" is a movie DVD and Blu-ray versions. (When you buy a disc, you get the digital version is actually stored on CinemaNow site.)

The company has invested 250 million U.S. dollars over the last three years - mainly on the sale of Roxio software - to prepare for change. CinemaNow in November, it purchased $ 3 million.

Sonic has lost 4.3 million U.S. dollars income of 120 million U.S. dollars in 2008. Latest quarter, broke even, Habiger said. He lost only $ 80,000 income of 25 million U.S. dollars.

The large increase in the coming

Analyst Carl Howe, the Yankee Group is the transition from living room to the "very early now, but he sees tremendous growth. There is 3 million related to the Blu-ray players LG and Samsung from their homes in the U.S. by the end of the year, he says, will rise 8 million next year.

Web TV access a broader market. There are 6 million U.S. dollars in place by the end of the year, growing 11.7 million in 2010 and 50 million in 2013, Yankee projects.

But to make dreams come true Sonic, Netflix, Amazon and other circumstances, the two major obstacles must be overcome: the network speed and technology issues. Consumers need a fast home network for streaming movies, and even faster connections to see them high-def. I have the settings should be simple, not today.

The new living room, Habiger said, the TV with a built-in Wi-Fi today, the biggest potential market.

All in all, a new delivery method is much more work than the Creator, Roxio's flagship software, which has been submitted to over 350 million copies of the latest, he says, and about 60% of Sonic's income.

Creator of the new version was released last week provides tools Copy DVD and video files more quickly and create a DVD collection of many articles. Habiger said Roxio continues to grow, "More and more video products all the time and is filed under.

But if he can get 1% of the annual 50 billion U.S. dollars DVD sales and rental companies online movie sales, "We are moving from 100 million to a billion dollars business."

Fight Club: 10th Anniversary Edition Blu-Ray out November 17th

One of the most popular movies will be getting a nice upgrade to Blu-Ray on November 17th. While everyone loves Fight Club, I don’t really like it. I still think the ending and the whole twist was really stupid and a cop-out. He’s fighting himself in the parking lot huh? Gimme a break, how freakin dumb! But whatever, people like this movie so this is why I’m posting the news about Fight Club.

Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you’re alive. If you don’t claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned… Tyler .

Clever, savagely witty and dark, Fight Club: 10 th Anniversary Edition , arrives on Blu-ray Disc (BD) November 17 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk ( Choke ), Fight Club was directed by acclaimed filmmaker and Golden Globe-nominee *** David Fincher ( Se7en , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ) and stars Edward Norton ( 25 th Hour , Primal Fear ) and Brad Pitt ( Mr. & Mrs. Smith , Inglorious Basterds ), whose characters bond over a mutual disgust for corporate hypocrisy and find release in an eccentric , shocking new form of therapy – Fight Club .

The Fight Club: 10 th Anniversary Edition BD is packed full of punches with all-new bonus materials including two interactive featurettes – “A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club ” which allows users to remix four key scenes themselves with the help of Oscar-nominated sound designer Ren Klyce; and “Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index,” giving viewers the ability to access any part of the disc’s extensive bonus material via interactive tools.

The BD also features behind-the-scenes with Fincher, Pitt and Norton as they accept the Guy Movie Hall of Fame honor for Fight Club at SPIKE TV’S 2009 GUYS CHOICE Awards, commentary by Fincher, Palahniuk, Pitt, Norton and Helena Bonham Carter, “Welcome To Fight Club” featurette, seven deleted scenes, a music video, photo gallery and much more, for the suggested retail price of $34.99 U.S. / $37.99 Canada. Prebook is October 21.

Synopsis:
A lonely, isolated thirty-something young professional in an unidentified, semi-stylized city, seeks an escape from his ordinary life with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find their release from the prison of reality through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world denies them.

Blu-ray Disc Specs:
The Fight Club Blu-ray Disc is presented in widescreen format (2.40:1) on a 50GB dual-layer disc authored in English 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio and Dolby Surround, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and French 5.1 DTS sound with English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Special features include:
● New A Hit In The Ear: Ren Klyce and the Sound Design of Fight Club
o Welcome To Fight Club
o Angel Faces Beating
o The Crash
o Tyler’s Goodbye
● New Flogging Fight Club
● New Insomniac Mode: I Am Jack’s Search Index, Commentary Log, Topic Search
● Behind the Scenes Vignettes: Production, Visual Effects, On Location
● Edward Norton Interview
● Commentary by David Fincher
● Commentary by David Fincher, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter
● Commentary by Chuck Palahniuk and Jim Uhls
● Commentary by Alex McDowell, Jeff Cronenweth, Michael Kaplan and Kevin Haug
● Seven Deleted Scenes and Alternate Scenes
● Trailer Farm – Theatrical Teaser, Theatrical Trailer, The Eight Rules of Fight Club
● 12 TV Spots
● Public Service Announcements
● Music Video
● Five Internet Spots
● Promotional Gallery
● Art Gallery