New York-based The Tape House has acquired a majority interest in Zuma Digital, a DVD service company which develops proprietary DVD products and handles projects for commercial as well as long form and corporate applications.

Under the new deal, Zuma Digital, founded two and a half years ago, will operate as two entities, Zuma Research and Zuma Digital. Zuma founders Blaine Graboyes and Jon Silbermann retain ownership of Zuma Research, which is responsible for developing software for the company's DVD solutions.

The Tape House deal means the service and project development arm of Zuma, Zuma Digital, now falls under the Tape House umbrella.

The Tape House operates a number of post companies which provide an array of services in the commercial and long form sectors.

Zuma's products include Active DVD, which provides full screen, full motion DVD video in PowerPoint presentations.

"DVD is an important and growing part of the industry," says Tape House owner/president Mark Polyocan.

"For us it was an opportunity to expand the services we offer the industry. The advertising clients coming to [Zuma] for DVD is a market we want to explore further."

As part of the Tape House deal, Zuma is planning a $1.5 million expansion of its DVD facility, which is expected to increase the company's DVD authoring and encoding capacity to about 25 systems, from several different manufacturers.

Contacts:

http://www.zumadvd.com

http://www.tapehouse.com