Excite@Home and Media 100 Launch Innovative Internet Video Broadband Application to Create Virtual Online Film Studio.Business Editors REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. & MALBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 7, 2000 Free 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. Software Creates a Virtual Film Studio for Users to Create and Share Personal Videos Online Excite@Home (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ATHM ATHM Excite@Home (NASDAQ symbol) ATHM Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine ATHM American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) ), the leader in broadband, and Media 100 Inc. (NASDAQ: MDEA MDEA 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-Ethylamphetamine (empathogenic/psychedelic drug closely related to MDMA) MDEA Master Data Exchange Agreement MDEA Methyl Di-Ethyl Amine ), the leading provider of software, systems and services for streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. on the Internet, today launched a new and innovative personal video broadband application for Excite and @Home(SM) users. Taking advantage of broadband capabilities in a new way, Excite@Home and Media 100 are offering customers IntroDV MovieMate, Media 100's powerful Internet video creation application that lets users create, edit and show their own Internet videos or movies directly online. The free service is made exclusively for Excite@Home and is available only on the Excite portal at http://moviemate.excite.com and in the WebSpace area of the @Home service. IntroDV MovieMate gives movie enthusiasts and budding film directors a free digital video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. "studio" on the Internet. Users simply download IntroDV MovieMate to quickly and easily create high-quality Internet videos. A virtual film studio, users can give their videos the Hollywood feel by adding professional-style transitions, custom titles and music, and then share their video online at Excite.com Clubs (http://moviemate.excite.com) and @Home WebSpace. "The use of video and streaming media online is clearly a killer app A software application that is exceptionally useful or exciting. Killer apps are innovative and often represent the first of a new breed, and they are extremely successful. For example, in the late 1970s, the VisiCalc spreadsheet was the killer app for the Apple II, providing reason of broadband," said Byron Smith, executive vice president of consumer broadband services and chief marketing officer, Excite@Home. "With this launch, we are continuing our focus on innovative broadband services and our strategy of rolling out broadband applications on both the @Home service and the Excite portal. This is the first broadband application that will be available to all our broadband customers, whether they access it from their @Home connection or as an Excite portal user experiencing the Internet with a fast connection." "Our relationship with Excite@Home is an important step in Media 100's initiative to bring the streaming media experience to millions of users worldwide. The streaming media phenomenon is captivating cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. the global Internet community and companies like Excite@Home are opening up the pipelines for people to finally experience Internet broadcasting Internet Broadcasting (formerly Internet Broadcasting Systems), or IBS, is a provider of television station web sites. IBS hosts over 70 local stations' sites, and co-produced NBCOlympics. ," said John Molinari, chief executive officer of Media 100. "We recognize that, for Media 100 to maximize this vast opportunity, we need to deliver our award-winning streaming media solutions to this increasingly-sophisticated consumer audience in the fastest, most efficient manner possible. Partnering with Excite@Home helps bring those users to our door step." PERSONAL VIDEO APPLICATIONS IntroDV MovieMate includes everything Excite@Home users need to capture and edit movies on their PC. An intuitive user interface enables Excite@Home customers to quickly assemble video clips into an editing "timeline," insert high quality titles and special effects, add music or voice-over narration, preview the finished movie and upload the movie as a streaming video to the Excite@Home's @Home WebSpace or Excite.com Clubs for viewing. IntroDV MovieMate guides users through a simple three-step process approach to creating and streaming video on the Internet. The application is designed to work with video in the digital video (DV) format, and content can be captured from any DV, mini-DV or Digital-8 camcorder. IntroDV MovieMate is available now for @Home subscribers and Excite registered users free of charge. Customers seeking more advanced, feature-rich video solutions can link to a co-branded site to purchase IntroDV MovieMate Plus for $49. Users can also link to Media 100's iStore to purchase other Media 100 streaming media solutions. ABOUT EXCITE@HOME Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM) is the leading broadband online service provider, offering residential and commercial broadband services, with a global footprint of 105(1) million homes under long-term cable and DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary contract. Excite@Home offers consumers broadband services over cable-modem, DSL and other `last-mile' connections and businesses high-speed commercial services. Excite@Home has over 30(1) million cable franchise homes under contract outside of North America and localized versions of the Excite service in 10 leading international markets. Excite@Home, @Home, Excite and the "@" stylized styl·ize tr.v. styl·ized, styl·iz·ing, styl·iz·es 1. To restrict or make conform to a particular style. 2. To represent conventionally; conventionalize. logo are trademarks of At Home Corporation and may be registered in certain jurisdictions ABOUT MEDIA 100 Media 100 Inc. (Nasdaq:MDEA) develops software and systems that simplify the creation and delivery of video on the Internet, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). . Media 100 provides the market's most comprehensive suite of streaming media solutions -- ranging from video/audio acquisition and editing to dynamic media compression, from MPEG-2 encoding to real-time transcoding - and is the only company in the world that supports all three major streaming media formats; Real Systems G2, Windows Media, and QuickTime 4. The Media 100 family of companies, including Digital Origin, Terran Interactive and Wired, have added key technologies to Media 100's streaming media workflow, enabling customers to seamlessly connect DV cameras to the Internet, empowering a new breed of Internet broadcaster. For more information, visit www.media100.com. Media 100 and Media Cleaner are registered trademarks of Media 100 Inc. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Terran Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Media 100 Inc. All products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. All specifications are subject to change. (1) Effective upon the closing of Excite Chello. |
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