Convera and T-Systems Launch First Online Film Distribution Platform with Worldwide Access.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003 Marco Polo Marco Polo: see Polo, Marco. Archive First to Use FootageBox Platform to Market Its Film Archive T-Systems, part of the Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DT), Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR CNVR Conveyor ) and Marco Polo Archive today announced the launch of FootageBox, an Internet platform that enables people involved in the media industry to search film archives, view materials online, and order and obtain footage electronically. FootageBox is the first worldwide archive to store video materials for direct access. T-Systems' FootageBox allows owners of archived film and video to market their films over the Internet. Marco Polo Archive is the first company to use the FootageBox platform to market its source archive of more than 3,000 hours of nature films and documentaries to the media community. Ultimately FootageBox will create additional revenue streams for both small and large players in the media industry by providing access to "hidden treasures
Hidden Treasures is an EP by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released in 1995. " that would otherwise be unavailable to a large number of interested parties. Supported by Convera's RetrievalWare(R), FootageBox automatically indexes every single sequence of a film to enable a rapid and highly targeted method of retrieving and delivering video footage. Its ability to apply concepts to search words means that, in the case of Marco Polo Archive, animal names This lists various names animals can have. There are often multiple names that can apply in each situation. Many species of animals, particularly those domesticated, have been given specific names for the male, the female, and the young of the species. can be easily retrieved on an international basis as the system automatically searches for the associated English, Latin and German version of the name regardless of the original language used. The concept search functionality also provides users with the ability to start with a frame from one film and search for similar scenes in other films. To deliver such content via the Internet, T-Systems has leveraged its efficient international network infrastructure to deliver HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates data (High Definition Television) to other continents via satellite links, ensuring that the fastest data throughput is maintained. About T-Systems T-Systems is one of the leading information technology (IT) and communications service providers A Communications Service Provider or CSP is a company that transports information electronically. The term encompasses public and private companies in the wireline, wireless, Internet, cable, satellite, and managed services businesses. in Europe. This system house employs more than 43,500 employees in over 20 countries. For the first three quarters of 2002, the company achieved a sales volume of 8,300 million Euros and an adjusted EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become (result before taxes, write-offs and amortizations) of 833 million Euros. The company provides system integration plus the deployment and operation of workstations, computing centres and networks to large organizations and public institutions. These classical IT and communications services form the basis for integrated solutions built from networks and applications. In this way, T-Systems serves large clients of Deutsche Telekom along the total value-added chain with the aim to improve the competitiveness of its clients. For more information on the company and its services, please visit http://www.t-systems.de or http://www.t-systems.com About Marco Polo Archive In 2001, Marco Polo Archive Productions GmbH was established by the internationally renowned nature film producer Marco Polo Film AG which continues to contribute its expertise on the subject areas of nature, the environment, travel, adventure, and science. By the end of 2002, an extensive range of technology systems was implemented for the preparation, processing, editing and archiving of film materials enabling the company to provide an innovative digital archive using the latest HDTV standard. Its content offering is built up and maintained by experts from the fields of archiving and image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished . For search runs and research, Marco Polo Archive provides professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , and fast and easy access to quality footage. Under the roof of Marco Polo Archive Productions GmbH, worldwide stocks of hundreds of content owners (such as ZDF ZDF Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ZDF Z-Firm Document Folder ZDF Zone Definition File Enterprises, Off The Fence, Wildvisuals, Sunburnt sun·burn n. Inflammation or blistering of the skin caused by overexposure to direct sunlight. tr. & intr.v. sun·burned or sun·burnt , sun·burn·ing, sun·burns To affect or be affected with sunburn. Pictures, and innumerable other smaller archives) are networked and made accessible to researchers. The customer base includes international TV stations, independent producers and advertising agencies. For additional information on the company and its services, please visit www.marco-polo-archive.com. About Convera Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search, retrieval and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 800 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals See corporate portal. , knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800/788-7758, via e-mail at info@convera.com or on the Web at www.convera.com. This release, including any statements from Convera personnel, contains statements about Convera's future expectations, performance, plans, and prospects, as well as assumptions about future events. The reader is cautioned not to put undue reliance on these forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , as these statements are subject to numerous factors and uncertainties, including without limitation, business and economic conditions and trends; continued success in technological advances; possible disruption in commercial activities caused by terrorist activity and armed conflict, such as changes in logistics and security arrangements; reduced customer demand relative to expectations; competitive factors; and other risk factors listed from time to time in the company's SEC reports. Actual results may differ materially from our expectations as the result of these and other important factors relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc Convera's business and product development efforts, which are further described in Convera's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These filings can be obtained from the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov. Any forward-looking statements are based on information available to Convera on the date of this release, and Convera assumes no obligation to update such statements. The Convera design logo and the following are worldwide trademarks of Convera: Convera(TM), RetrievalWare(R), and Screening Room(R). The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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