Automation Options for DVD-Recording Now Available from Young Minds Inc.

Redlands, CA, July 5, 2000 Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) of Redlands, California has announced the first DVD-R disc industry autoloader solution for Unix, the DVD PAS (Power Automation Station). The two-drive autoloader is now available for DVD Studio, the most advanced solution for DVD recorders available today. The PAS DVD autoloader has an input of 120 discs and an integrated thermal disc label printer. PAS DVD with DVD Studio is available for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, UnixWare, and other major Unix variants, but also Linux, Windows NT and Windows 2000. Key applications include DVD Studio DVD media conversion with PAS (CD to DVD or tape to DVD), archiving and distribution, document imaging, GIS, and other applications that a profitable, long term archiving and / or distribution of large data sets. Jim Bolander, Vice President Sales and Marketing, media conversion predicts that the market will be an early adopter of this product: "Companies that already have invested in the CD-Rs for data archiving have done the same benefits they will continue to flow from DVD. These are able to take a drive back and read it almost anywhere, the lifetime of optical media, and instant access to data on the disk. The additional advantage of the DVD is a much higher storage capacity. Each DVD disc may place up to seven CDs, making it easier to manage the increasingly large data sets produced by the industry today. Companies that now use tape showing increased interest in converting to a DVD for all the same grounds. "Founded in 1989, Young Minds, Inc. (YMi) offers a complete line of network capable DVD and CD recording solutions that work with UNIX, Linux and Windows NT operating systems. YMi pioneer CD recording and CD-ROM mass storage in the UNIX market, and remains the most innovative solutions that are reliable, cost effective and easy to use make. Andrew Young, chairman and co-founder of the company, author of the Rock Ridge Interchange Protocols, which define additional functionality for ISO 9660 standard discs used in UNIX environments. Thousands YMi systems in use throughout the world in business, industry, government and educational institutions. Young Minds can be reached on the Internet http://www.ymi.com or call 800-964-4964.