CORBIS JOINS FORCES WITH REALNETWORKS TO PROVIDE DIGITAL PICTURES TO REALSLIDESHOW USERS CORBIS TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO LARGEST COLLECTION OF Digital Images in the World To RealSlideshow Users; Helping to Enable a New Market for Broadcasting Digital Pictures over the Internet
PR NEWSWIRE - June 29, 1999 06:00
SEATTLE, Jun 29, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Corbis, the Place for Pictures on the Internet (www.corbis.com), today announced an agreement with RealNetworks(TM), (Nasdaq: RNWK), the recognized leader in media delivery for the Internet, to be the first digital image content provider for its new RealSlideshow product. RealSlideshow, announced today, offers home and business users, for the first time, an easy way to make and broadcast digital pictures over the Internet. Corbis will provide a wide complimentary selection of its more than 2.1 million digital images for consumers to use for a three-month trial period. The move supports Corbis' efforts to bring practical application tools to businesses and consumers who need high-quality visual content.
"Corbis is thrilled to have the distinction of being the premier provider of digital images for RealNetworks' newest product -- RealSlideshow," said Ingvar Petursson, vice president and chief technology officer of Corbis. "RealNetworks' ubiquitous market reach combined with Corbis' vast collection of digital images creates a synergistic relationship that benefits both business users and consumers alike. Corbis' technology is uniquely positioned within the image marketplace to deliver these capabilities."
Great Application for Home and Business Users RealSlideshow creates Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) -based presentations, which play back using native image formats, including the world's most popular JPEG and BMP, in RealPlayer(R) G2, enabling the largest source of existing multimedia to be broadcast over the Internet.
For home users, RealSlideshow is an easy-to-use application that can create and broadcast over the Internet everything from streaming family photo albums and wedding pictures to personal movies and personal advertisements. For business users, RealSlideshow is a great application for streaming real estate listings, product promotions, tutorials, training, online auctions and photojournalism stories.
RealSlideshow is an easy-to-use product that creates a RealAudio slideshow from pictures, personal commentary and music. RealSlideshow includes a number of features that enable publishing a slideshow on a personal Web page or business Web site, including:
-- A simple timeline that shows thumbnails of JPEG images -- An audio recording from a CD collection, microphone or existing
WAV files -- Visual "download bars" which show the tradeoffs of bandwidth and
quality for streaming presentations from modem to broadband connections -- Choice of transitional effects between images
-- Wizard based ftp publishing of slideshows to GeoCities, PhotoHighway.com, PhotoPoint.com, a RealServer(TM) or any ISP with
RealServers RealSlideshow is immediately available for a free download from real.com
The Corbis Collection Through the "Get Pictures" button, consumers can access high quality digital pictures from the vast Corbis Collection. Corbis offers the largest collection of images in the world, with more than 65 million images and more than 2.1 million online.
"The richness and depth of the Corbis Collection gives RealSlideshow users the kind of quality pictures they can not ordinarily take themselves," said Ben Rotholtz, general manager, Systems and Tools, RealNetworks, Inc. "Now, for the first time, anyone can produce engaging and powerful presentations using digital pictures synchronized with RealAudio over the internet."
Growth in Streaming Media There are now more than 65 million registered unique users of RealPlayer, the largest absolute growth of any consumer desktop application in 1998.More than 85% of all Web pages on the Internet using streaming media useindustry leading RealAudio, RealVideo(R), RealFlash(TM), RealText(R) or RealPix(TM), and more than 300,000 hours of live RealAudio and RealVideo programming are available each week (Source: HotBot).
About Corbis Corbis (www.corbis.com), a privately owned company, is the leading provider of visual content and services to creative professionals and consumers through innovative digital technologies. The Corbis Collection -- more than 65 million images, with more than 2.1 million available online -- is the largest image collection in the world. It contains the world's most significant photography and fine art from more than 1500 creative sources, including Ansel Adams, the Bettmann Archive, UPI, the National Gallery -- London, and the State Hermitage Museum, as well as leading celebrity, commercial and news photographers. In June 1999, Corbis acquired Corbis Sygma, adding real-time news and celebrity event photography to the CorbisCollection.
Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com) -- Corbis' image-licensing division targeting creative professionals -- is the industry's first one-stop shopping experience, providing customers with visual solutions across a wide spectrum of traditionally- licensed and royalty-free imagery.
Corbis is also the industry leader in creating innovative visual products for online consumers. Personal-Use Pictures, the Corbis Photographic Print and Poster Store, Corbis E-Cards and other innovative online consumer products all showcase the Corbis Collection, making www.corbis.com The Place for Pictures on the Internet.
Corbis is based in Seattle, with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris and San Diego. For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 1-800-260-0444, (425) 641-4505, fax (425) 746-1618, or visit its Web site at www.corbis.com.
About RealNetworks RealNetworks, Inc. (Nasdaq: RNWK), based in Seattle, WA, is the recognized leader in media delivery for the Internet. It develops and markets software products and services designed to enable users of personal computers andother consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web. RealNetworks can be found on the World Wide Web at real.com.
RealNetworks, RealPlayer, RealAudio, Real Broadcast Network, RealSystem, RealServer, RealProducer, RealText, RealPix and RealVideo are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. RealFlash is a trademark of Macromedia, Inc. and RealNetworks, Inc. Macromedia and Flash areregistered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc. Corbis and Sygma are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Corbis Corporation or Sygma in the United States and/or other countries. All other companies or products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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