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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 2826J Zoo Digital Group PLC 29 March 2010 \n \n\n \n \nZOO Digital Group plc\n(\"ZOO\" or \"The Group\")\nAUTOMATED BLU-RAY AUTHORING SYSTEM AND TRANSLATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM\nZOO Digital, the provider of software and software-led services for the filmed entertainment market, announces the launch of its automated authoring software for producing regionalized Blu-ray™ Discs and its first customer for the Translation Management System.\nFollowing on from the success of its software tools for menu regionalization and automated authoring of DVD-Video titles, ZOO will shortly begin deployment of a similar solution for Blu-ray Disc. Blu-ray is the recently introduced industry-standard packaged media format for high definition home video and is growing rapidly. According to research reported by the British Video Association sales of Blu-ray Discs increased 123% year on year in 2009 and accounted for over 20% of new disc sales of a number of leading titles.\nThe requirements that major film studios have for their Blu-ray Disc products lead to highly complex production processes. This is in part due to the complexity of the Blu-ray format and partly to the work necessary to adapt titles developed in one language to create multiple language variants. ZOO's integrated software toolset automates the preparation of digital content including complex interactive menus, regionalization into multiple language variants, and assembly and formatting for full compliance with the Blu-ray Disc specification. This enables ZOO's customers to produce Blu-ray titles for multiple languages more quickly and easily and at lower cost. ZOO charges a fee for each title processed and therefore recurring revenues will scale with the volume of Blu-ray titles created by the system. The system is currently being evaluated by a major Hollywood studio.\nThe regionalization capabilities of the Blu-ray automated authoring toolset are delivered through integration with ZOO's Translation Management System (TMS). ZOO is pleased to announce that, following extensive trials, this system has now been deployed for a major Hollywood studio where it is beginning to be used to manage, coordinate and regionalize worldwide marketing campaigns for theatrical film releases. ZOO expects that, in due ...