ViewCast.com Showcases Internet Streaming Products With Industry Partners at National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Trade Show
ViewCast.com demonstrates solutions in conjunction with Microsoft, RealNetworks and Virage
Dallas, Texas, April 20, 1999 ViewCast.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCST), the company that develops equipment for Internet video communication solutions, today announced it will be demonstrating its streaming video products at the upcoming NAB show, being held this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. ViewCast.com will have products in several corporate industry partners' booths including Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT), RealNetworks (Nasdaq:RNWK) and Virage.
ViewCast.com's Osprey® video cards and ViewCast® turnkey streaming video solutions are used and recommended extensively by these partners as the basis for their streaming video products. ViewCast.com works closely with these companies to deliver high-quality, well-integrated, reliable streaming video solutions.
ViewCast.com and Microsoft, Booth # S-5638
Recently, ViewCast.com announced support for Microsoft's new Windows Media Technologies 4.0, enabling high-quality Internet streaming. Microsoft Windows Media Technologies 4.0 consists of the Windows Media Player, Windows Media Services and Windows Media Tools.
ViewCast.com's Osprey® -100 video capture card, which will be given away as prizes during the Microsoft media theater presentations, is ideally suited for the new 4.0 version of the Windows Media Encoder, delivering up to 30 frames per second of high-quality video for the most demanding video streaming applications.
"The Osprey-100 video capture card is a perfect fit for encoding high-quality video using the new Windows Media Technologies 4.0 and we are pleased to be working with ViewCast.com to deliver this level of excellence to the industry," said Greg Carpenter, Windows Media Technologies group program manager at Microsoft.
ViewCast.com and Real Networks, Booth # S-5244
Earlier this month, ViewCast.com began shipping the Osprey® -1000 Real G2 Hardware Encoder - the first hardware implementation of RealNetworks RealSystem G2 Encoder. ViewCast streaming video systems are fully-configured, turnkey encoding stations and streaming servers that enable corporations, government agencies, schools and organizations to quickly and easily add live and on-demand streaming video to their networks and web sites. Now, with the new Osprey-1000 Real G2 Hardware Encoder, ViewCast Systems offer unprecedented features and performance encoding up to six (6) live video feeds in a single Windows NT Workstation.
ViewCast.com and Virage, Booth # S-1531
ViewCast.com is demonstrating for the first time an integrated video logging solution based around the Virage VideoLogger and the ViewCast system. The Virage VideoLogger watches, listens to and reads video in real time to intelligently extract information such as keyframes, time codes, text and an audio profile. With availability expected in the second quarter, 1999, the ViewCast Logging Station will offer organizations and broadcasters a complete solution for the creation, encoding, streaming and now searching of video content.
"We are excited about the level of enthusiasm our partners are showing for the ViewCast system and Osprey line of video cards. We are dedicated to working with all of our partners so ViewCast.com can continue to provide the best equipment in the world for streaming video solutions and satisfy the exploding demand for Internet video," said Neal Page, Vice President at ViewCast.com.
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