sputnik7.com and imix.com to Offer First-Ever Digital Film Compilations on CustomDVD; Exclusive RESFEST Short Films Are Available For CustomDVD Compilation.Business & High Tech Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000 sputnik Sputnik: see satellite, artificial; space exploration. Sputnik Any of a series of Earth-orbiting spacecraft whose launching by the Soviet Union inaugurated the space age. 7.com, imix.com and the producers of the acclaimed RESFEST touring digital film festival, RES Media Group, today announced a CustomDVD retail partnership. For the first time, consumers can create a custom compilation of RESFEST short films on a 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. . At http://www.sputnik7.com, 22 films will be available for custom compilation beginning December 5, 2000. sputnik7.com and imix.com's DVD product is the first customized DVD ever to offer filmed entertainment programming. The CustomDVD film content includes RESFEST shorts currently streaming on sputnik7.com, plus premieres from the 4th annual RESFEST 2000 Film Festival. The DVD product can feature popular short films from the festival, such as RESFEST 2000 Audience Choice Award winner, "Tongues & Taxis," plus "Snack & Drink," "Protest" and "Naked Pavement," and will be available for CustomDVD. Consumers can mix and match up to 10 of 22 films on a Custom for $29.95 plus S/H S/H Shipping and Handling S/H Second Hand S/H Service History S/H Sample & Hold S/H Stocking and Hardening . "We are thrilled to offer consumers the opportunity to create their own personalized DVDs for the first time. The RESFEST films are just the beginning of a great library of films and television that we will soon make available to consumers," said David Gould, 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 imix.com. "imix.com is committed to providing the best personalized entertainment available across a wide range of formats." "Our partnership with imix.com is a perfect opportunity to offer our audience increased access to the outstanding film content from our catalogue," says David Beal, CEO of sputnik7.com. "We will launch additional products that provide a more personalized entertainment experience." "The partnership with imix.com represents our commitment to exploring and defining a new model for film distribution and marketing," says Jonathan Wells, RES Media Group Partner and RESFEST Festival Director. "Over the years our audience has requested compilations of our shorts programs. Now, not only can you get RESFEST films on DVD, you choose your own playlist A file that contains an index to a selected group of music files on the computer. Using digital jukebox software such as iTunes and Winamp, playlists are created by the user by dragging and dropping titles from a master index. The software may be able to create a playlist automatically. . We are excited to be a part of this." imix.com, providing syndication services for sputnik7.com, will encode the RESFEST films in MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 2, the highest quality standard that Hollywood demands. From a direct link at sputnik7.com, imix.com is the provider for all e-commerce services. An imix.com CustomDVD is shipped within 24 hours of ordering. Each CustomDVD can be personalized with a choice of different cover art and a personalized title. CustomDVDs are the perfect item for airplane travel, holidays, birthdays, anniversaries or for personal use on home DVD players. imix.com is an innovator and leader in the personalized entertainment space and will soon be offering a variety of TV programming on DVD. About imix.com imix.com is a leading provider and resource of online personalized entertainment, offering its partners and customers the ability to create their own personalized digital entertainment in every format. imix.com completely personalizes the production process by enabling customers to choose their favorite entertainment from a broad selection of music, and soon an expanded offering of TV and film content. The Company is in the process of expanding these offerings to include film and TV content in the near future. The range of products offered on the imix.com website includes or will include CustomCDs, CustomDVDs, CustomDownloads and CustomMiniDiscs. Serving as a syndication and distribution company for the digital entertainment industry, imix.com enables business-to-business turnkey marketing, promotion, manufacturing and corporate product fulfillment needs. imix.com uses an exact, one-to-one digital transfer of the original master recording to produce the same Red Book Audio compact disc consumers find in stores. To date, imix.com has licensed more than 200,000 individual tracks from over 250 record labels. The Company recently completed licensing agreements with Sony Music Entertainment Sony Music Entertainment is a major global record label controlled by the Sony Corporation. In 1988, Sony Corporation acquired CBS Records, Inc. for $2 billion. CBS Inc., now CBS Corporation, retained the rights to the CBS name, and Sony renamed the label and BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Entertainment North America. The Company's industry-leading B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business distribution network includes more than 100 leading online music retailers, radio stations and music destination websites, including Tower Records, Wherehouse Music, CDNow, Liquid Audio and TWEC TWEC Trans World Entertainment Corp. TWEC Todd-Wadena Electric Cooperative . Major shareholders include AMFM AMFM Association of Marriage and Family Ministries AMFM Automated Mapping Facilities Management AMFM Association des Modélistes Ferroviaires de Montréal (French: Montreal Railroad Modelers Association) , Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst (HMTF HMTF Host Medical Treatment Facility HMTF Hazardous Materials Transfer Form ), BMG and Sony Music Entertainment. Additional information regarding the Company can be found at http://www.imix.com About sputnik7.com - Chronic Online Entertainment Credited as the world's first real-time audio/video online entertainment experience, sputnik7.com showcases a sophisticated mix of independent entertainment programming via interactive music and video stations, and film, Japanese anime and videos on demand. Based on a `best quality' programming philosophy and the sensibility of Chairman Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records and Palm Pictures), sputnik7.com receives content through its strategic partners and by encouraging submissions from its community of artists and tastemakers. Earlier this year, sputnik7.com and RES Media Group announced a long-term strategic partnership. This partnership solidifies their commitment to emerging talent and digital culture by expanding the reach of products and services to filmmakers. sputnik7.com is the recipient of the International Web Page Award for Creative Excellence, the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for outstanding music-related content, the Gold INVISION Award for Best Entertainment Streaming Media Site and the 2000 Promax&BDA BDA Battle Damage Assessment BDA Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (German: Confederation of German Employers' Associations) BDA British Dental Association BDA Blu-ray Disc Association BDA Bund Deutscher Architekten Silver Award for Web Site: Entertainment/Programming/Special Event. About RES Media Group - The Future of Filmmaking RMG RMG Roularta Media Group RMG RiskMetrics Group, Inc. RMG Revenu Minimum Garanti (French: Guaranteed Minimum Income) RMG Risk Management Group RMG Ready Made Garment RMG Raw Materials Group (mining industry) produces the acclaimed national publication, RES: The Magazine of Digital Filmmaking and the RESFEST Digital Film Festival, an annual touring celebration of digital film that features screenings, panels and technology demonstrations. Both cover the exploding realm of digital filmmaking and web cinema, in which DV cameras and desktop computers are being used to make shorts, feature length films, television programs and music videos. RESFEST 2000 tours to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Seattle, London, Montreal, Seoul, Osaka and Tokyo. RESFEST 2000 sponsors include IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , BARCO, Ultra16, Adobe Systems, discreet, Canon, Directors Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild, Thousand Words, Pinnacle Systems and Skyy Vodka. In 1997, the pioneering festival became the first film festival to showcase digitally produced films and implement digital projection for its screenings. RES Magazine has profiled the work of such innovators as Spike Jonze, Lars von Trier Trier (trēr), Latin Augusta Treverorum, city (1994 pop. 99,183), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, a port on the Moselle (Ger. Mosel) River, near the Luxembourg border. , Michael Moore, Eduardo Sanchez and Dan Myrick directors of The Blair Witch Project, Chris Cunningham, and Mike Figgis. |
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