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March 20th, 2008

SAI Releases Re-writable Blu-ray Disc Support for Mac OS X 10.4 & 10.5
WriteBD!™ UDF writer for Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5 provides world's first UDF writer for re-writable Blu-ray Disc drives using “drag & drop” writing to disc.

December 13th, 2007

ReadDVD! UDF Reader Supports Apple Leopard OS 10.5
Provides Broad Disk Support for Apple Mac OS 10.5, including Blu-ray Discs.

July 24th, 2007

SAI releases Developer Toolkit for Blu-ray Disc Drives
UDF File System Developer Toolkit Supports Windows and Linux Systems.

June 22nd, 2007

SAI Adds Apple OS 10.4 Support for Plasmon UDO Drives
First “Drag & Drop” Writing to UDO Drives using UDF Format on Mac OS 10.4.

June 20th, 2007

SAI Releases Blu-ray Device Driver for Mac OS 10.4
BlueDisk™ Driver for Mac OS 10.4 provides world's first Mac “Finder” interface to re-writable Blu-ray Disc Drives for “drag & drop” writing.

May 9th, 2007

SAI Releases GreatPhoto!™ v2.1 Digital Photo Enhancer for Mac OS 10.4
New “zonal effects” feature speeds color correction of problem photos with easy-to-use controls.

April 27th, 2007

SAI Releases GreatVideo!™; v2.2 Recordable DVD Video File Converter for Apple Mac OS 10.4
Updated software automatically converts & downloads DVD Video from DV Video Recorders & Camcorders to Apple iTunes, Apple TV, Apple iMovie, Video iPods and 23 QuickTime compatible video file formats for use on Apple systems.

April 2nd, 2007

SAI Releases Low Cost Archival Software For Dell POWERVAULT™ Removable Hard Disk Products
ArchivistPro™ Drive Letter Access File Recorder for MS Windows™ provides permanent record management with File Version History access for SMB.

January 7th, 2006

GreatPhoto!™ 2.0 Image Enhancement Utility for Mac OS 10.4 Released
GreatPhoto!™ v2.0 provides powerful digital photo color correction & image enhancement with an easy to learn, easy to use interface ideal for novices to power users.

November 13th, 2006

GreatVideo!™ Digital Video Converter Adds Integrated iMovie Support
GreatVideo!™ v2.1 converts video recorded on consumer DVD video recorders; downloads directly into Apple iMovie for quick and easy editing of TV shows and commercials.

August 15th, 2006

New Archival Solutions provide Business Permanent Record Retention for under $1,000
ArchivistPro™ Solutions provides Fast & Easy Archival and File Retrieval with Automatic File Version History Access.

August 8th, 2006

New Software Automatically Converts & Downloads DVD Video from DVD Video Recorders & Camcorders to Apple iTunes & Video iPods
GreatVideo!™ v2.0 converts video recorded on consumer DVD video recorders and DVD camcorders and downloads to Apple iTunes™ for playback on Video iPods™ and Mac systems.

June 4th, 2006

WriteUDF!™ UDF Writer for MS Windows Supports Blu-ray Disc Drives and Hard Disk Drives for Very Large File Interchange
Provides “Drag & Drop” UDF Writing to BD, Hard Disk Drives, MO and DVD-RAM Media using UDF Format, including UDF v2.5 and UDFv2.6.

May 8th, 2006

WriteUDF!™ UDF Writer for Mac OS 10.4 Released by SAI
World’s First “Drag & Drop” Writing to Hard Disk Drives, MO and DVD-RAM Media using UDF Format, including UDF v2.5 and UDFv2.6.

ArchivistPro™ Write Once Archiving Software Turns Ordinary Re-writable Disk Drives into Archival Devices for Permanent Record Retention
Archive Important Files, Fast & Easy... Archivist Pro™ for Windows provides drag & drop “Write Once, Read Many” (WORM) writing to Hard Disk Drives, MO Drives, Iomega Rev™ Drives and DVD-RAM.

February 21st, 2006

ReadDVD!™ Recordable DVD Video Disc Reader Adds Universal Support for Apple Systems
Reads Recordable DVD Video Discs from DVD Camcorders & Video Recorders and other optical media formatted in UDF on Mac’s running Intel or PowerPC.

February 10th, 2006

SAI releases DVD Show DVD Video Disc Maker for Apple MAC OS
Plug-In to Nikon Picture Project Digital Photo Software Automates Creation of Digital Multi-Media Slide Shows in DVD Video Disc Format.

January 2nd, 2006

SAI ships GreatVideo!™ v1.7 Recordable DVD Video File Converter for Apple Mac OS 10.4
Software reads and converts recorded DVD Video Discs from Video Recording Format to 23 QuickTime™ compatible video file formats for use on Apple systems.

December 1st, 2005

SAI Releases ReadDVD!™ UDF Reader Software for Mac OS 10.4
Mounts & Reads Recordable DVD Video Discs from DVD Camcorders & Video Recorders.

November 15th, 2005

We have moved to Kirkland
Effective November 16th, Software Architects has moved its corporate headquarters to 610 Market Street, Suite 200 in Kirkland, WA 98033.

June 1st, 2005

ValidateMPV!™ MPV Validation Tool for MS Windows Now Available
ValidateMPV!™ is the one software tool you need to ensure that your product is writing OSTA MPV Interoperability Specification 1.0 compliant multi-media play lists.

WriteDVD!™ for Linux Beta Now Available
Supports all major Linux kernal distributions, Contact Us for more information.

WriteDVD!™ upgrade for UDF 2.5 for Windows Now Available
Supports the latest DVD-Multi drives, Contact Us for more information.

February 14th, 2005

Fujitsu and Software Architects to Provide Data Security with New Write-Once Technology
New Functionality Provides an Easy and Affordable Way to Secure Important Records as Part of a Comprehensive HIPAA Program.

April 22nd, 2004

SAI ships GreatVideo!™ DVD Video File Converter for Mac OS 10.3
Software converts VR format discs from DVD Video Recorders and DVD Camcorders to 21 Mac friendly video formats for easy editing & authoring.

March 8th, 2004

SAI Announces Write Once Archiving Software for Blue Laser High Capacity Re-writable Optical Disk Drives

July 9th, 2003

SAI releases GreatVideo!™ v2.0 Recordable DVD Video File Converter for Apple Mac OS X

June 11th, 2003

SAI announces Blue-Ray disc file system developer toolkit

June 6th, 2003

SAI ships WriteDVD!™
Version 5.0 drive letter access writing utility ships with integrated archival and file rollback for recordable DVD drives.

January 2nd, 2003

SAI ships GreatVideo!™
GreatVideo!™ utility provides one step DVD video file mastering to any type of recordable DVD disc. Converts recorded DVD (.VRO) files to 21 video formats.

November 15th, 2002

GreatVideo!™ v1.5 Recordable DVD Video File Converter now Creates DVD Video Discs on Apple Systems in One Step Process

November 12th, 2002

SAI announces secure backup & archival software for recordable DVD media integrated with Windows

October 2nd, 2002

SAI announces world's first drive letter access utility to support Hitachi DVD-Multi drives on Windows

July 9th, 2002

Universal Support for All Recordable DVD Formats Released in UDF Developer Toolkit for Windows Systems

May 30th, 2002

World's First Mac OS X Support for Mt. Rainier Capable CD-RW Drives to be Released Late June 2002

May 22nd, 2002

SAI Ships Recordable DVD Writing Utility that Supports all DVD Formats
WriteDVD!™ v4.0 Utility uses Drag & Drop Drive Letter Access and UDF Format.

April 12th, 2002

UDF File System Developer Toolkit for MS Windows XP

April 8th, 2002

GreatVideo!™ Recordable DVD Video File Converter for MS Windows Released

April 4th, 2002

World's First Mt. Rainier Compliant CD-RW Drive Software for MS Windows XP Released

April 13th, 2002

World's First Mt. Rainier Compliant CD-RW Drive Software for Mac OS to be released

December 20th, 2001

Mitsumi and SAI Collaborate to Offer Mt. Rainier Compliant CD-RW Hardware and Software Solutions for PCs

November 10th, 2001

DVD-RAM TuneUp!™ Pro v5.0 provides seamless integration of DVD Camcorders with Apple PowerMac Systems

October 17th, 2001

SAI releases World's First Software to support reading Mt. Rainier formatted CD-RW disks on Legacy Systems

September 13th, 2001

SAI announced the release of WriteCD-RW!™ Pro v2.0 for MS Windows and Apple OS
WriteCD-RW!™ Pro is the first software in the world that reads disks formatted in new Mt. Rainier Format (CD-MRW format) drives.

August 24th, 2001

SAI announced the release of WriteDVD!™ Pro v3.0 for MS Windows and Apple OS
In addition to supporting standard DVD-RAM drives and media, version 3.0 now supports Drag & drop mastering to DVD-R disks.

August 1st, 2001

Software Architects, Inc. releases World's first Software to DVD-RAM Video Recorders & Camcorders on Apple Computer Systems

July 9th, 2001

Software Architects, releases world's first software utility that supports Mt. Rainier Compliant CD-MRW Drives

June 2001

Philips and Software Architects, Inc. agree to Co-Develop Advanced CD-MRW Drive Technology

February 2001

Software Architects, Inc. Opens Tokyo Office
For closer proximity to important Japanese market to strengthen and expand SAI's customer relationships.

Software Architects, Inc. releases Great Photo!™ v1.5 for Mac
Providing powerful color space manipulation with layered effects that saves time with fast image updates & comparison.

January 2001

Software Architects, Inc. releases Disk Drive TuneUp!™ v3.0
Disk Drive TuneUp!™ is the only general storage utility that can ensure read & write compatibility of UDF formatted disks between Apple Macintosh and MS Windows computer systems.

October 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases Write CD-RW!™ drag and drop utility for CD-RW drives for the Macintosh

September 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases WriteDVD!™ Pro supporting Windows ME

June 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases FixDVD!™ for Mac the world's first file recovery software for DVD-RAM drives.

February 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases WriteDVD!™ for DVD-RAM Drives for Windows 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases FixDVD!™ for Windows the world's first file recovery software for DVD-RAM drives.

January 2000

Software Architects, Inc. releases Disk Drive TuneUp™ v2.6

Software Architects, Inc. releases of DOS Mounter™ v3.0 File Transfer Utility

DVD-RAM drives plug into FireWire™ and OS 9 support with SAI's latest release of DVD-RAM TuneUp™

Software Architects, Inc. announces new release of Great Photo!™ for Macintosh
New version of Great Photo!™ takes digital photo processing and enhancement to new level.

November 1999

Software Architects, Inc. releases WriteDVD!™ DVD-RAM software for the Windows 2000 Beta Community

August 1999

Software Architects, Inc. ships European line of DVD-RAM utility software

Software Architects, Inc. announces world's first DVD-RAM software for Windows 2000

July 1999

Software Architects, Inc. announces release of Great Photo!™ Digital Image Enhancer

June 1999

Mac users can now play DVD movies on their DVD-RAM drives

Software Architects, Inc ships WriteDVD!™ for Windows NT

March 1999

Software Architects, Inc. announces European family of PC and Mac DVD-RAM Drive Software

Software Architects, Inc. announces WriteDVD!™ for Windows NT