FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Digigami Announces Competitive Upgrade from "BitVice MPEG-2 Encoder" to MegaPEG.X
Long Beach, CA - December 23, 2005 · Digigami today announced a competitive
upgrade program
for current owners of BitVice MPEG-2 Encoder for Macintosh.
Any current owner of BitVice qualifies for this special, time-limited offer. Pricing starts at
just $59.00 for MegaPEG Pro SD and Digigami's top of the line encoder MegaPEG HDTV is
only $299.00 under the competitive upgrade offer.
- Upgrade to Broadcast-Quality HD Encoding For All DTV/HD/DVD Post-Production
"The BitVice MPEG-2 encoder is a popular
product among Macintosh DVD authoring professionals. As good as it is, we find many Macintosh video
professionals turning to MegaPEG.X for their high-end HD encoding jobs and for the most challenging DVD compression projects," said Digigami CTO Gen Kiyooka.
"Under our competitive upgrade program it is inexpensive and easy for existing BitVice
customers to upgrade their studios to the state of the art MPEG-2 compression tools
found in MegaPEG HDTV.
With it's superb analysis tools, using the MegaPEG HDTV
mpeg-2 encoder with BitVice provides users with the
necessary analysis/feedback for demystifying the compression process. Conceptual jargon such
as quantization, peak and average bitrate all are available as visual, easy to read
charts and graphs in MegaPEG HDTV. The analysis tools included with MegaPEG HDTV
work with MPEG-2 files produced by any software or hardware MPEG-2 encoder, including BitVice."
MegaPEG.X also adds many other extremely practical features to BitVice, such as the ability to create MPEG audio and muxed CBR and VBR MPEG movies.
Digigami MegaPEG Pro HD and MegaPEG HDTV
are among the very few modern MPEG-2 encoders that can create high definition bitstreams which rival H.264 quality at similar bitrates.
The competitive upgrade promotion is available to all owners of BitVice and
similar competitive products. The promotion consists of a one-page, simple, interactive qualification form
which prepares a mail-in order-form. To qualify, owners of BitVice need only provide
an original copy of a sales receipt or a front cover from one of their manuals, a valid
serial number, or any other proof-of-purchase that Digigami deems valid.
Pricing and Availability
Digigami "BitVice MPEG-2 Encoder Competitive Upgrade" Promotion Page:
www.digigami.com/store/bitvice-mpeg-2-encoder-mac.php
The promotional price for a 4-seat MPEG-2 Encoding Render Farm is just $149.00. The promotional price for the
"Digigami 3-in-1 Master Your Moving Picture Bundle" (SD - standard definition)
is just $99.00. The promotional price for the "Digigami 2-in-1 Master Your Hi-Def Picture" Bundle is $249.00.
MegaPEG HDTV, Digigami's high-end encoding station, is just $299.00 under the special offer.
About Digigami...
Digigami is a privately held company headquartered in the greater Los Angeles area.
Digigami was founded in 1994 and released its first MPEG-1/MPEG-2 encoder, MegaPEG,
in 1996 along with an early Netscape plug-in that plays streaming video in MPEG, AVI, QuickTime formats.
For the past 10 years, Digigami has been continuously improving its MPEG video compression technology;
MPressionist HDTV, MegaPEG HDTV and MoviesForMyPod are the most recent Digigami products.
For details and pricing information on all Digigami products, please visit our
Web site at http://www.digigami.com/.
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BitVice is a trademark of Innobits AB.
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Altivec is a trademark of Freescale Semiconductor Inc.
MPEG is the colloquial acronym for the international video compression standard created by the
Motion Pictures Experts Group aka ISO/IEC-11172 (MPEG-1) and ISO/IEC 13818 (MPEG-2).