ViewCast.com Forms Strategic Partnership With Excalibur Technologies; Agreement Puts Excalibur Video Content Management Technology in ViewCast Encoding Stations.Business/Technology Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 ViewCast.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:VCST), a leading provider of Internet and networked video solutions, announced today a strategic partnership and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and agreement with Excalibur Media Services Group, a division of Excalibur Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ) and a leading provider of video content management enabling technologies. Based on the terms of the agreement, ViewCast.com will integrate Excalibur Technologies' award-winning Screening Room(R) with its ViewCast(R) streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. solutions. Excalibur Screening Room is a fully integrated, modular system that gives any enterprise unprecedented power to intelligently capture, manage, re-purpose and publish video content. "Excalibur's Screening Room has been embraced by professional content creators See content provider. in a number of industries including corporate media, broadcast, entertainment, and government," said David Nunnerley, Sr. Vice President and General Manager of the Excalibur Media Services Group. "Many of these customers want a single, turnkey solution. With the integration of Screening Room into the ViewCast streaming media systems This is a list of streaming media systems with articles
"The partnership with Excalibur -- with its base of professional users and the exciting new direction the company is heading with its recently announced merger with Intel's Interactive Media Services division -- is strategically consistent with ViewCast.com's product evolution. We are increasingly targeting the professional, broadcast-quality streaming media market segments with our new lines of Osprey-2000M and Osprey-500WM/DVPro capture cards," said ViewCast.com 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. George Platt. ViewCast.com Osprey Video capture cards are considered the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for the streaming industry. Platt added that partnering with Excalibur is consistent with ViewCast.com's strategy to bundle best-of-breed, third party software with its turnkey ViewCast streaming media systems. Excalibur will integrate specific capabilities of the new ViewCast.com Osprey Video capture cards within Screening Room including closed-caption data capture, "multiple-cards-in-a-box"; and other professional video streaming See streaming video and video stream. capabilities. Screening Room provides advanced video capture and analysis, intelligent indexing, acceleration of the video production process and instant publishing of video content to the Internet. The system's Capture Client enables users to archive video assets, capture existing analog or digital video, including live feeds, for fast, immediate and affordable access. It also captures associated closed-captioning text and/or provides speech-to-text conversion. "Integrating Excalibur's Screening Room with the ViewCast system enables users to create streaming video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater. that can be archived, searched and re-purposed, in one turnkey solution," said Platt. "The end result is users are able to increase the value and accessibility of their video content both in-house and via the Internet -- which makes streaming media information a more effective networked business communications tool and establishes new revenue streams from existing video content." ViewCast systems are fully-configured, turnkey encoding See encode. stations and streaming servers that enable streaming media content creators -- professional broadcasters, corporations, government agencies, schools and organizations -- to quickly and easily add live and on-demand streaming media to their networks and Web sites. About Excalibur Excalibur (Nasdaq:EXCA) is the world's leading developer of advanced, search-powered, multimedia software for intelligently accessing and utilizing digital content, including text, images and video, over the Internet, intranets and extranets. Recognized for their accuracy, scalability and security, the Excalibur products family includes Screening Room(R) for video content management applications, RetrievalWare(R) for text-centric searching, WebExpress for online search applications, Excalibur Internet Spider for multimedia web crawling, CDExpress for CD publishing CD Publishing is a term used to describe the use of CD duplication systems to create a large number of unique discs. For instance, storing a unique serial number on each copy of a software application disc would be considered CD publishing. applications and the Visual RetrievalWare Toolkit for developing image-based search applications. Founded in 1980, Excalibur employs over 240 people worldwide. The company is headquartered in Vienna, Va. with offices, distributors and subsidiaries located throughout the world. About ViewCast.com ViewCast.com enables video communication over the Internet and corporate networks through its components, systems, and turnkey solution products. The company is known as a leading global provider of enterprise-wide, digital video communications solutions for both real-time and on-demand applications. Osprey(R) video capture cards and codecs The following is a list of codecs. Audio codecs Non-compression formats
Visit the company's Web site (http://www.viewcast.com) for more information. This press release may contain 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. within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect the Company's current judgment on certain issues. Because such statements apply to future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the Company's reports on Form 10-KSB and 10-QSB on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: All trademarks are property of their respective holders. |
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