Press/Analyst Contact:
John Geyer
Terran Interactive, Inc.
(408) 356-7373 x227
jgeyer@terran.com
For Immediate Release
TERRAN INTERACTIVE AND HEURIS ANNOUNCE
CODEVELOPMENT PLANS
Media Cleaner Pro Interface to make HEURIS’ MPEG Power Professional*
Software Easily Accessible
Las Vegas, NV, NAB Expo ’98 (April 6, 1998) Terran Interactive, a leading
provider of video compression tools and HEURIS, a leading provider of MPEG
encoding solutions for professional digital video applications announced
today plans to enable their award winning software packages to work
together. HEURIS is producing a version of their MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoding
software which can be used from within Media Cleaner Pro.
“With the advent of DVD, many of Terran’s customers are increasingly
interested in the MPEG video format,” said Dana LoPiccolo-Giles, President
of Terran Interactive, Inc. “We’re excited to be offering content
developers an award-winning MPEG solution within Media Cleaner’s
streamlined interface. This announcement supports Terran’s mission to make
Media Cleaner the one tool that video and multimedia professionals can rely
upon to meet all their various content delivery needs.”
“We are very excited about this new opportunity,” says Brian Quandt,
President of HEURIS. “Terran Interactive and HEURIS each have great
strengths in what they bring to their users. This development allows us to
bring a stronger combined package to the end user.”
About HEURIS
Headquarted in St. Louis, Missouri, HEURIS is a full-service provider of
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 digital video compression solutions for professional
video and multimedia developers. HEURIS products and services are used to
incorporate high-quality digital video into sales/marketing CD-ROMs,
interactive kiosks, and corporate training presentations. Customers include
McDonnell Douglas, Southwestern Bell, Hunter Engineering, Federal Express
and Universal Studios. HEURIS can be reached via the World Wide Web at:
www.heuris.com
About Terran Interactive Inc.
Founded in 1995, Terran is a privately held company located in Los Gatos,
California. Terran’s mission is to develop powerful and easy-to-use tools
that optimize and compress dynamic media, enabling users to enrich their
CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and Internet projects. Media Cleaner Pro, Terran’s flagship
product, is recognized as the industry standard for compressing digital
media. For more information, visit (http://www.terran.com).