Redlands, CA, November 11, 1999 - Young Minds, Inc. the global leader in UNIX CD-Recordable and CD-ROM mass storage solutions announces the beta release of DVD Studio.

"We have just completed development and are currently beta testing a DVD-R version of our standard bearer CD Studio", announced YMi’s President Matthew Hornbeck. "The DVD Studio, which is currently being used to create DVD-R discs at select beta sites, is due to be released commercially in the first quarter of 2000."

The DVD Studio will create DVDs on many platforms including Sun, Linux, NT, IBM, SCO, HP, Digital UNIX, and SGI. Unlike DVD-RAM and the other rewritable formats, DVD-R is not lost in a maze of proprietary hardware and limited OS compatibility. DVD-R is the only recordable DVD media readable in DVD-ROM drives. At 4.7 GBs, DVD-R offers substantially more capacity than DVD-RAM’s 2.6 GBs and DVD+RW’s 3.0 GBs.

"The demand for the DVD Studio has been overwhelming," states Sales Manager Jim Bolander. "We see the demand for DVD Studio growing over the next few months, due in part to the lack of functional DVD-R solutions in the marketplace." Young Minds is currently taking requests for beta DVD Studios on a case by case basis. Young Minds will be exhibiting the DVD Studio on December 1^st at the IT Solutions & Information Assurance Conference hosted by the Space and Missile Systems Center and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.

Young Minds has earned a reputation for solid digital recording technology based on its ten-year performance with CD-ROM solutions. Young Minds, Inc. pioneered CD-ROM mass storage and CD-Recordable systems in the UNIX market. Young Minds provides a complete line of UNIX and Windows NT CD-Recording and storage solutions to business, industry, government agencies and educational institutions.