Datmedia Selects ViewCast Streaming Appliances for Innovative Internet TV Programming Service
Niagara Encoders to Power Easy-to-Use Datmedia DatpresenterV2 Platform
PLANO, Texas — June 2, 2009 — ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a developer of industry-leading hardware and software for the transformation, delivery and management of professional quality video over IP and mobile networks, today announced that Datmedia (www.datmedia.co.uk) has selected ViewCast Niagara® streaming media appliances to power its DatpresenterV2 Internet TV programming service. With rack-mount Niagara 2100 and portable Niagara GoStream® SURF appliances, Datmedia provides its customers with an easy-to-use online service for customizable live streaming and video on demand (VOD) content delivery.
With the number of on-line TV stations around the world now estimated to be passing 3,000, UK-based Datmedia, the winner of the International Webcasting Association’s Best Streaming Innovation awards in 2007 and 2008, has created the DatpresenterV2 service that allows anyone with basic computer skills to create and brand their own Internet TV channel with synchronized rich media. Optimized for a variety of applications including education, training, and corporate marketing, Datmedia offers customers a “one stop” media streaming service that enables advanced features such as embedded real-time PowerPoint presentation support, corporate branding, search capabilities and more.
Datmedia Managing Director, Stephen Clee, said “The demand for video streaming will continue to grow as companies realize the wide-ranging benefits. Our system means that companies can have total control over the way they communicate, reaching a wider audience for marketing, communicating to staff online and giving presentations to customers and stakeholders. Streaming is increasingly becoming a necessity rather than something that is nice to have.
“Just as our customers have benefitted from Datmedia’s feature-rich, easy-to-use DatpresenterV2 service, we’ve benefited from the powerful functionality and intuitive design of the ViewCast Niagara family of streaming media appliances,” he said. “The ViewCast Niagara appliances afford us a hardware platform with a robust, unified API (Application Programmatic Interface) for us to build upon, and a tremendous breadth of supported streaming codecs, backed by the ViewCast reputation for industry-leading reliability.”
The ViewCast Niagara SCX® control and management software and the Niagara SCX software development kit (SDK) provides Datmedia with seamless integration between its DatpresenterV2 platform and the Niagara streaming appliance platform, with the flexibility to customize innovative features that set DatpresenterV2 apart from competing services. The Niagara SCX software enables Datmedia to manage its Niagara streaming media infrastructure via an intuitive desktop interface, with the ability to control and monitor each individual stream.
“With the ViewCast Niagara streaming media appliances at the heart of the DatpresenterV2 service, Datmedia is empowering its customers with superior reliability and automation at every stage of the media streaming workflow,” said ViewCast President and CEO Dave Stoner. “Innovative software and service providers like Datmedia count on ViewCast streaming solutions and the underlying Niagara SCX software to customize unique features that bring their rich media productions to life.”
ViewCast Niagara streaming media appliances are designed to deliver the quality, features and ease-of-use convenience that professional broadcasters demand. They are pre-configured, plug-and-play solutions that enable users to quickly capture and broadcast premium quality audio and video in multiple formats and at multiple bit rates - all simultaneously.