CountingDown.com and On2 Team to Release Short Films; On2's Leading Compression Technology to Power New Fusion Area.Business and Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2001 On2.com Inc. (ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. 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Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. over the Internet and to consumer electronic devices, and CountingDown.com, the World's Ultimate Fan site for film and entertainment, announced today that they will jointly launch Fusion, a short film destination area on Countingdown.com. Fusion will feature over 50 award-winning short films encoded and displayed in On2's full-screen, TV-quality VP3 format. The site is expected to launch on February 15th. "The entertainment community continues to embrace On2's technology," said On2 President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Douglas McIntyre. "We are very pleased with our agreement with CountingDown.com and look forward to bringing new short films to the Internet in the highest possible quality." "On2's full-screen technology was a perfect fit for Countingdown.com" said Countingdown's CEO Charles Segars, "we are looking forward to working with them." CountingDown.com is a fan-run website dedicated to tracking and creating large on-line communities for up and coming feature films. The new Fusion area of the site will showcase up to five new short films per week from both the Countingdown.com and Quickband film libraries. Fusion will also offer its short films in additional video formats, with On2 remastering and encoding all assets. On2 is able to reach unparalleled levels of quality by combining its proprietary Internet multimedia codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, with its unique remastering process. In order to ensure optimum video delivery over the Internet, On2's video engineers undergo a detailed process to convert all videos to their original frame rate, correct black, white, and gamma levels, fix stereo imbalances and offer key framing, balancing, masking, and cropping in order to maintain the proper image size and proportions. About On2.com On2.com Inc. (ASE: ONT) is a broadband application service provider offering a suite of products and services, including high-level video encoding, hosting, streaming, interface design, customized technical support, and consulting services. Founded in 1992, the company has consistently been at the forefront of the broadband revolution with the creation of its advanced full-motion, full-screen, TV-quality video compression and streaming technology (TrueMotion(R) VP3). In assisting new and traditional media companies, Internet enterprises and Web site customers to move from a traditional media distribution model to a broadband IP strategy, On2 is enabling the Internet to become a truly viable delivery medium for video, audio, 3D, and other media and data. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , with offices in Albany, NY, San Francisco, CA, and London, UK, On2 may be reached at 375 Greenwich Street, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10013, telephone 212-941-2400 or info@on2.com. Investor inquiries should be sent to invest@on2.com. More information is available at www.on2.com. About CountingDown.com Founded in 1998 and operated for the first two years by three people in three different countries, CountingDown.com has emerged as a leader in the online community space by creating some of the largest and most viral communities for film on the web. CountingDown.com brings fans together from around the world and counts down the days to the release of the most anticipated films of the year. Specialized "countdowns" offer news, bulletin boards, chat, production information, photos, trailers and links. CountingDown.com helped organize and ran the world-famous marathon lines for "Star Wars: Episode One" at the Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, the Ziegfeld Theater in New York There are many famous theaters in New York, most notably the Broadway theatres in New York City.
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