InnovaCom Inc. Friday announced that the company’s DVDimpact has been selected as a finalist for AV Video & Multimedia Producer’s 2000 Platinum Award in the DVD Products category for Production Systems/Software.

The winners of AV Video’s annual Platinum Awards for the best products introduced to the industry in 1999 are selected by the readers of AV Video, who first vote the award for products they feel enhance their creativity, productivity, or both. Winners will be announced in the January 2000 issue.

“We consider a reader’s choice award one of the highest honors that could be bestowed upon the DVDimpact. AV Video & Multimedia Producer is one of the premier magazines in our industry and it offers insightful information to our customers,” affirmed Frank Alioto, president and chief executive officer of InnovaCom Inc. “Win, lose or draw, the nomination for the Platinum Award validates our vision for the emerging digital broadcast and IT markets.”

DVDimpact, InnovaCom’s flagship publishing system is targeted directly at multimedia studios and Fortune 1000 clients because of its high price performance value. DVDimpact is an all-in-one Windows NT
solution incorporating InnovaCom’s MPEG realtime compression technology integrated with a full suite of publishing tools required by today’s DVD authors for premastering DVDs. InnovaCom Inc. is a
Silicon Valley manufacturer of video compression based transmission and DVD PreMastering Systems.