Hotline Communications and Studionext Form Alliance to Create Digital Entertainment Community; Users to be provided with ability to download original film, music and game content.Business & High Tech Editors TORONTO and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 7, 2000 Hotline Communications Hotline Communications Limited (HCL) was a software company founded in 1997, based in Toronto, Canada, with employees also in the United States and Australia. Hotline Communications' main activity was the publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication (www.BigRedH.com), a pioneer of peer-to-peer communications Communications in which both sides have equal responsibility for initiating, maintaining and terminating the session. Contrast with "master-slave communications," in which the host determines which users can initiate which sessions. and community-building software, and Studionext (www.studionext.com), a digital media solutions provider for the entertainment and advertising industries, announced today an alliance that will allow Studionext to offer a new distribution platform for their existing and future productions. Studionext will use Hotline's flagship technology, Hotline Connect (messaging) Hotline Connect - A suite of communication products developed by Hotline Communications Ltd. Hotline Connect is a real-time, multi-platform Internet/Intranet communication suite, that operates independent of the World-Wide Web. , to promote the streaming and downloading of their serialized shows, short films, animation, music and interactive games. In addition, Hotline's community technology will enable Studionext to stream live events, store their archived content and gather its user's digital content submissions. Studionext will also encourage its community to upload digital content to its server. The Studionext community server will be listed with both Hotline's New Media Channel as well as Hotline's Featured Server Channel. "We are very please to showcase Studionext's high quality content on our New Media Channel," said Jack Kay, 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. of Hotline Communications. "Studionext is a perfect example of a premier digital media solutions provider that is embracing the advantages of interactivity and community building online." Hotline Connect acts as a complete online digital community, empowering users to chat publicly and privately, share all types of file formats, post news and participate in newsgroups This is a list of newsgroups that are significant for their popularity or their position in Usenet history. As of October 2002, there are about 100,000 Usenet newsgroups, of which approximately a fifth are active. . Using QuickTime technology, Hotline also offers users the ability to stream multiple files, which is an excellent feature for those users who enjoy multimedia and broadband. Hotline is cross platform, meaning the software is accessible to both Mac users and PC users. The Hotline software allows our users to create secure communities, either public or private, in their own online space, without having to understand HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , JAVA or other web based languages or protocols. On the heels of appointing pioneering independent film producer Ira Deutchman to the post of CEO, Studionext is at the forefront of digital production and solutions. Subsequently, the alliance with Hotline is the next logical step for Studionext's distribution strategy. Says Spencer Huang, co-founder and SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of Business Development of Studionext Corporation, "Our alliance with Hotline serves to benefit Studionext tremendously - by combining our digital production expertise and the speed of Internet-enabled technologies that Hotline offers, we will be provided with the opportunity to offer our clients a new distribution platform." About Hotline Communications: Founded in 1997, Hotline Communications is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. in Toronto, Canada. The Company develops industry-leading, high-speed Internet communications and content distribution software that has attracted more than 3 million users worldwide and an additional 250,000 downloads per month. Recently, Hotline ranked 40th spot on Go2Net's 100 Hot Web sites, a comprehensive listing of the Web's most popular sites. Additional information is available on the company's Web site http://www.BigRedH.com. About Studionext Studionext is a digital-media solutions provider that enables traditional producer's and advertising companies expedient and cost effective ways to move into the digital medium. By offering unparalleled experience and expertise in film, television and the Internet, Studionext provides "end to end" digital solutions to clients who want to take advantage of new technologies while still maintaining the existing strengths of traditional filmmaking. Studionext Corporation, headquartered in the heart of Silicon Alley, is guided by former executives and employees from Fine Line Features, Cinecom Entertainment Group,AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , Showtime, Paramount, Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi , PeopleSoft, and other successful media and technology companies. Additional information can is available on the company's Website: http://www.studionext.com. |
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