Henninger Interactive Media said Wednesday that its production of The Ultimate DVD Platinum has been named a Discus Award finalist for Creative Excellence by the organizers of the DVD PRO Conference & Exhibition. Distributed by Unapix Entertainment, Inc., the Ultimate DVD Platinum is one of four nominees in the category of Best Technical Achievement; the
others include A Bugs Life, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and The Matrix. The Discus Award is an international competition that recognizes outstanding examples of DVD design, interactivity, and production for DVD-Video and DVD-ROM.

Winners will be announced on July 17 at the DVD PRO Conference to be held in San Francisco. According to Tom McCarthy, director of DVD services for Henninger Interactive Media, the development and production of the Ultimate DVD Platinum was an extraordinary undertaking for Unapix Entertainment, Henninger DVD Services, Henninger Digital Audio, Henninger Video and a host of technical
managers.

The Ultimate DVD Collection features an unprecedented compendium of sights and sounds from some of the world’s greatest producers, artists and engineers. The collection serves to highlight the ability of DVD to accurately reproduce high quality program material in a diverse array of audio and video formats, provide multi-language audio tracks, and multiple language subtitles all with a high degree of user interactivity and navigation options.