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Date: 9/1/99 4:51:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: AOL News
Video Pipeline to Launch Streaming Previews For In-Store and Website Promotion at East Coast Video Show
HADDONFIELD, N.J., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Video Pipeline, Inc. will launch its new service supplying previews via the internet at the upcoming East Coast Video Show. By linking to the company's library of promotional video, retailers will be able to show their customers up to 10,000 previews.
The previews come in a number of bandwidths for 28.8 to 300 kpbs connections. This means that not only a home user but a dedicated in-store web station can play the highest quality video it is capable of.
Retailers can link directly to individual previews from anywhere in their web site or they can let their customers use the company's Video Detective search tool to find the movie preview they want to see.
In either case, implementation is easily done using the `developer resources' section at videopipeline.net. "It really only takes about five minutes to cut and paste our search box onto their site," says Video Pipeline Systems Manager, Robert Kolo. "Individual title linking takes a bit longer but if your web pages are created dynamically, all you need to do is add a field to you database and enter our ID numbers."
Accessing the previews costs as little as a penny a view with a one time, $1000.00 deposit. The previews are restricted to point-of-sale promotional use.
Sample previews, terms of use, the Video Detective search tool and a complete list of the 4,500 plus previews already online are available at VIDEOPIPELINE.NET and will be available at ECVS booth number 212. The company expects to have 10,000 movie previews available by the end of September and an additional 10,000 music videos available by the start of the holiday shopping season.
Video Pipeline's servers can play videos for over 5,000 concurrent viewers which means they can serve over 20,000 an hour. The company plans to double that capacity in the next 30 days.
Current customers include ForMovies.com, Blowoutvideo.com, AccessDVD.com, Circuit City, West Coast Video, The Wherehouse, Ingram Entertainment, Baker&Taylor Entertainment and Major Video Concepts.
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