Any Video on the Net You Want with Captions? No Problem.Access for All is Not Just a Slogan It's a Reality AUSTIN, Texas -- Project readOn solves the problem of online video captioning. They are not just another company with captioning software handing the tools to the community to 'do it themselves'. They are captioning online video content using a revolutionary concept of universally applicable standalone stand·a·lone adj. Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. e-captions in a flash based Refers to devices that use flash memory for storage such as digital music players and digital cameras. Contrast with disk based. See flash memory and USB drive. browser window that never 'touch' the content itself. This method relieves all of the traditional issues of hosting, mastering, and player requirements. It's simple and ingenious. They are a project of Rhino Moon Captioning Ltd., and were announced March 16th, 2007. Based in Austin, Texas with a satellite office in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Rhino Moon Captioning started for Project readOn [www.projectreadon.com] 9 months ago. First they developed and filed a patent for their "Project readOn" player, described earlier. Next they built a user driven website where people can join for free, search their database of captioned content, suggest content on the net that they would like to see with captions, receive notification of when it is done, and then watch it. People are responding: Shane Feldman of DeafDC.com says: "If you're like me, your frustration grew exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. over the last several years as you fruitlessly searched for online videos that were captioned. Not many companies or individuals were willing to step up to the plate and provide a widely needed service - but now that we have one with Project readOn, we all need to show our unified support for this marvelous initiative." Carl Wurtz of Hyperoptix Design says: "I'm a developer and I've never seen the application of a simpler and more ingenious use of internet technology to solve a very real problem for a large community of people." Live since March 16th, 2007, Project readOn has already garnered the interest of major internet video Video material obtained from the Internet. It may refer to streaming video from real time broadcasts, streaming archival material or downloading video files for watching later, all of which are viewed on the computer. hosting companies, investors, and the deaf and hard of hearing community. They have developed a widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. and are talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to several major video hosting companies, online TV networks, and content aggregators An organization that combines information such as news, sports scores, weather forecasts and reference materials from various sources and makes it available to its customers. See customer aggregator. for ways to host the widget. Project readOn is a company to watch. They have taken a very real problem for the most emerging aspect of online technology and solved it, today. If you'd like more information about this topic or to schedule an interview with Mateo Gutierrez call 818-461-2975 or email Mateo at mg@projectreadon.com. |
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