CVC and its Warner Bros. affiliate will contribute their expertise in DVD authoring and production as well as testing and approving the final product before its commercial release. To date, CVC has authored over 1000 titles. Many of these titles were produced on behalf of Warner Home Video in support of its aggressive DVD roll-out schedule. CVC s workload requires it to work on up to 50 titles at one time. As the level of DVD interactivity increases, there is a corresponding increase in authoring and production time for each title.
Quality control remains the most time-consuming element of DVD production.
Additionally, despite the presence of a DVD standard, different players can handle the same title differently. Today CVC spends a considerable amount of time with players from every vendor to try to find all quirks and inconsistencies to ensure every disc made will play on every player that is available. With the unprecedented consumer support for DVD, titles are becoming increasingly more sophisticated with elaborate menus and complex navigation. We are enthusiastic to be working with ContentWise. We chose to cooperate with ContentWise because their technology can give us the quality and productivity we need to handle a high volume of top-run titles.