Today at NAB2004, Microsoft Corp. announced that Windows® XP and Windows Media® 9 Series are powering leading software and hardware solutions for the professional film, video and broadcast production community, and enabling real-time, end-to-end, high-definition (HD) video production on the desktop for the first time. Solutions from Adobe, BOXX Technologies Inc. and CineForm Inc. are now available for Windows XP, making desktop real-time, multistream, 10-bit high-definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI) video editing a reality. In addition, real-time Windows Media Video 9 Series HD (WMV HD) encoding is being demonstrated at the show, with both software-only and hardware-accelerated solutions.

"The HD revolution on the Windows XP PC desktop has now begun," said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft. "For the first time, real-time multistream HD video-editing is now a reality on the Windows XP desktop with breakthrough new solutions from Adobe, BOXX Technologies and CineForm for professionals in video, film and broadcast production."