DRAPER, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--aVinci Media Corporation (“aVinciâ€, AVMC.PK, www.avincimedia.com), a company revolutionizing the way life’s events and memories are created, shared, and preserved, has signed a partnership agreement with Preclick, an award-winning photo software management company, to distribute aVinci’s photo movie software along with Preclick’s Walmart Digital Photo Manager software on millions of photo CD discs distributed by Walmart each year. Preclick is the default photo manager software distributed with all CD lab orders fulfilled by Walmart Photo Centers. Beginning in November 2008, aVinci Studio software will come preinstalled on all CDs distributed by Walmart with the Preclick Digital Photo Manager.
The Preclick partnership allows consumers to install the latest aVinci Studio photo movie software on their desktop and create and purchase professional quality, themed DVD productions in minutes that can then be shared with friends and family. Users can create finished productions up to ten times faster than on an Internet site and there is no subscription required.
“In our continued effort to reach consumers, this new partnership with Preclick will supplement our current in-store application that is already available on Walmart Photo Center kiosks, expanding our reach to include millions of Walmart consumers who create at home, on their personal computer.†said Chett B. Paulsen, aVinci’s chief executive officer. “Given the more than 300 billion images captured each year and stored offline, aVinci Studio offers customers an easy-to-use alternative to simply storing their photos on a CD. Moms, dads, families, and photo enthusiasts will now be able to create and purchase compelling and professional quality productions for the sharing and preservation of their memories more conveniently than ever before.â€
About Preclick
Preclick, the photo lifetime software company, builds consumer software in twenty-two languages for HP, Costco, Wal-Mart, 3M, SanDisk, DotPhoto and others. Preclick’s award-winning photo management software provides digital camera owners the fastest and easiest way to organize, print, preserve and share their digital photos; www.preclick.com/pr.
About aVinci® Media Corporation
Each year, more than 300 billion images are captured with digital cameras and phones. Less than 10% of those images are monetized through prints and personalized photo products. aVinci Media Corporation develops compelling and easy-to-use solutions for photo consumers, available through partners such as Walmart, Costco, Meijer, HP, Fujicolor and others that revolutionize how individuals create, capture and share compelling personal moments while unlocking the value of images stored offline. The company developed the aVinci Experience product line to simplify and automate the process of creating professional-quality, multi-media productions using personal photos and videos. Visit http://www.avincimedia.com.
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