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ViewCast
Modifies Name to More Accurately Reflect Business
Updated
corporate graphics to accompany change in name
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ViewCast.com,
Inc. (NASDAQ: VCST), a leading provider of Internet and
networked video solutions, announced today that the company
has filed a DBA to allow it to do business as ViewCast
Corporation. The new name more accurately reflects the
company�s expanded business strategies. In addition, the
company has updated its corporate logo to reflect the
newly modified name.
�During
the past several months, we have been refining and redefining
what we do, and the �dot-com� name simply doesn�t fit
our current business model,� said ViewCast President and
Chief Executive Officer George Platt. �Certainly the Internet
is an integral part of our business particularly for our
streaming products, but ViewCast is not strictly an e-commerce
venture. We provide video distribution products and services
for deployment of media over all types of networks.�
�The
ViewCast that exists today surpasses the ViewCast that
was here when I was named president and chief executive
officer a little more than a year ago,� said Platt. �We
have built upon our foundation expertise and introduced
new focused business initiatives. Today�s ViewCast offers
a diversity of products and services that take advantage
of our superior technology and knowledge of the video
networking and streaming media industries.�
�Like
our business, our new corporate logo has been streamlined
and given greater focus, to better reflect the ViewCast
of 2001,� said Brian Dean, ViewCast vice-president of
marketing. �The basic design remains, but it�s been given
a cleaner, updated look. Over the coming days and weeks,
this new design will permeate throughout the ViewCast
corporate image and include a redesign of our ViewCast
(http://www.viewcast.com) Web site.�
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ViewCast
Corporation (NASDAQ: VCST), a leading provider of Internet
and networked video solutions, is proud to announce that
its new Niagara Streaming System product family is now
shipping. Niagara is a family of new turnkey, rack-mounted
and portable streaming solutions for businesses.
Businesses want to be able to take advantage of the efficiencies
of streaming communications technologies to communicate
their corporate messages or provide network-based training,
but they want a system that provides ease-of-use and fits
within their existing network and intranet infrastructure.
ViewCast�s new Niagara Streaming Systems deliver plug-and-play
streaming solutions that integrate seamlessly with enterprise
networks, servers and clients,� said George Platt, ViewCast
president and chief executive officer.
ViewCast
Niagara Streaming Systems are pre-configured, integrated
solutions that comes in industry-standard rack-mounted
configurations (1U, 2U or 4U) or as a unique portable
system targeted for remote Webcasting of live events.
Niagara system configurations are available with either
the Osprey-220 professional analog A/V capture cards or
the Osprey-500 DV Pro professional digital A/V capture
boards.
ViewCast
Niagara Streaming Systems are an ideal platform for corporations,
broadcasters, production houses, Internet ASP's, and broadcasters
who are called on to repurpose broadcast content. The
Niagara Streaming System product family has nearly limitless
business applications for almost every conceivable vertical
market, including B2B video collaboration; Internet broadcasting;
surveillance/security; distance learning; healthcare/telemedicine;
encoding/production services, live Webcasting and many
others.
With
reliable, fully-tested platforms and pre-loaded software,
businesses need do little more than plug a Niagara system
into their existing network to start taking advantage
of audio and video streaming in their own digital video
applications.
Niagara
systems configured with the Osprey-220 come equipped with
either RealProducer Plus 8.5 or Windows Media Encoder
V7 streaming encoder applications, and Niagara systems
based on the Osprey-500 come configured and optimized
for Windows Media encoding applications.
For
more information about Niagara Streaming Systems, click
here.
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In
keeping with other recent product and divisional branding
efforts, ViewCast gives the world renowned Osprey brand
a new visual identity. The Osprey Video division
of ViewCast manufactures the Osprey family streaming video
capture product family of products including the Osprey-100,
the most widely used streaming capture card on the
planet.
With
more than 270 million registered Windows Media and RealVideo
players, the streaming video market is one of the fastest
growing markets today and Osprey Video streaming capture
products have enabled this digital revolution. More Osprey
video capture cards have been sold than any other family
of streaming video capture and encoding products, making
Osprey Video streaming capture and encoding products the
de facto standard for the creation of streaming media.
OspreyVideo.com
products are compatible and recommended by the streaming
media market leaders, Microsoft and RealNetworks. Osprey
video streaming products enable you to encode to the latest
Windows Media 7.0 and the RealVideo 8.5 formats for a
virtually unlimited variety of live and on-demand streaming
video applications.
The
new Osprey Video logo will become the new icon for Osprey
Video and you will see it a lot in the future!
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New
Osprey-500 DV Pro Reviews!
The
highly-acclaimed Osprey-500
has met with great success since its introduction
in Q3, 2000 and has become the standard for professional
Windows Media streaming. Three great reviews on
the Osprey-500 have come out since the beginning
of the year and we would like to call your attention
to those reviews to see what the industry is saying
about the Osprey-500.
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See why the Streaming Media World newsletter describes
the Osprey-500 the "Rolls Royce of the industry!"
in it's two part product review entitled "Flight
of the Osprey."
(Click on the links below for full review)
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Streaming
Media World Osprey-500 Review Part 1
Streaming
Media World Osprey-500 Review Part 2
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Hear
what Digital Webcast has to say about the Osprey-500
"This card works flawlessly with Windows Media
Encoder 7. This card is built with streaming
in mind, it has a built in de-interlacing filter,
which works in real time to produce an exceptionally
crisp image. This is a great card for live event streaming.
Simply connect your video source, run Windows Media
Encoder and send it off. I really like the Osprey
500. This is a solid card that performs well, and
gives you a great deal of versatility in inputs."
(Click on the link below for full review)
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Digital
Webcast Osprey-500 Review
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See
what Streaming Media Magazine says about the Osprey-500
in its March 2001 hardcopy magazine issue.
"The
Osprey-500 provides first-of-its-kind functionality.
This is a well-built product that breaks the digital
video barrier, provides unparalleled support for
Windows Media Encoder, and offers excellent scalability"
(Pick
up the March 2001 issue of Streaming Media Magazine
to see the full review)
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New
Osprey-2000 Delivers Unparalleled Power to the Professional!
Introducing
the new Osprey-2000,
the industry's first product to combine the quality of
MPEG with the power of streaming video. Whether you use
digital or analog sources, this powerful new MPEG-2 codec
and streaming capture product integrates seamlessly with
leading editing and streaming applications.
With
the Osprey-2000 you can encode once in high-quality MPEG-2
format and then deploy in any streaming format through
the Osprey-2000's unique MPEG-2 to streaming format transcoding
capabilities. Take your archived MPEG-2 video and trancode
it to Windows Media or RealVideo formats in any bitrate,
now or in the future. With the Osprey-2000, quality is
preserved and the benefits of streaming distribution are
realized.
ViewCast's
Osprey� Video breaks new streaming content creation barriers!
No
other single product can take inputs from such a wide
variety of sources and do so many things.
Content
is valuable. Quality is essential. Encode and archive
content once from your digital source with the Osprey-2000
in MPEG, then decode and convert to any popular streaming
format such as RealVideo or Windows Media. Or go straight
from your digital source and stream it live on the internet
or import it into your favorite streaming or professional
desktop editing application.
Osprey-2000
is compatible with popular editing and streaming applications
including Adobe Premiere 6.0, Sonic Foundry Vegas Video
or Stream Anywhere, Terran Interactive Media Cleaner Pro,
and many other popular streaming and editing applications.
Finally,
quality streaming content with a shelf life.....from ViewCast's
Osprey Video division.
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ViewCast
is gearing up for NAB and we will probably see many of
you at this year's show in Las Vegas, April 23 - 26. ViewCast
has many exciting new new products debuting at NAB.
To
get a FREE NAB Exhibits Only registration pass so you
can come by and see ViewCast's latest streaming products,
click the NAB Registration Site link below. Enter the
code on the registration page and continue the registration
process.
FREE NAB Registration Code: JM19
Click
Here to Access NAB Registration Site
What
ViewCast will be Showing at NAB!
ViewCast
Corporation will showcase its streaming media technology
and streaming solutions Apr. 23-26 at NAB2001 at the Sands
Exposition Hall, Lower Level, in Las Vegas. ViewCast.com
will demonstrate the high-quality video capture capabilities
of its new Osprey-2000 and Osprey-500 capture cards, as
well as its new Niagara Streaming Systems at Booth E2905.
ViewCast.com Osprey Video capture cards are widely recognized
as the streaming industry�s de facto standard for video
capture cards and codecs for streaming video.
Osprey-500
Capture Card
