(COMTEX) B: Digital Lava Brings Streaming Video to Microsoft Windows
B: Digital Lava Brings Streaming Video to Microsoft Windows Media Player Users
With VideoVisor Web
LOS ANGELES, Jun 28, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE via COMTEX) --
Universal Internet Access to Interactive Video Via Web Browsers
and Windows Media Player
Digital Lava Inc. (AMEX:DGV), developers of the award-winning
VideoVisor Professional desktop video software, today announced that
its turnkey Internet service, VideoVisor(TM) Web, is now compatible
with Microsoft Windows Media Technologies.
With just a Web browser and the Windows Media Player, users can have
instant access to interactive video on the Web without downloading
software or plug-ins. Digital Lava's media-rich interactive videos are
enhanced with text, slides, Web pages and links to the Internet.
"VideoVisor Web is inherently compatible with Digital Lava's streaming
media desktop application VideoVisor Professional, so video content can
be published just once, but deployed many times in many ways -- via
CD-ROM, DVD, intranets, LANs, WANs and now the Web," said Joshua
Sharfman, president of Digital Lava.
"Expanding the reach of Digital Lava's video publishing software to the
desktops of Microsoft Windows Media Player users further demonstrates
our commitment to providing ubiquitous solutions for our customers."
"We're excited that Digital Lava's offerings are now available to the
millions of Windows Media Player users," said Kevin Unangst, product
manager, Streaming Media Division at Microsoft. "The combination of
VideoVisor Web and Windows Media Technologies delivers a great solution
for disseminating mission-critical information via the Internet."
With VideoVisor Web, corporations, government agencies and educational
institutions can cut costs and increase productivity by offering Web
access to interactive media for training, distance learning, or any
communications program. Digital Lava's customers also use interactive
video for business meetings, tradeshows, news conferences, earnings
announcements and any application intended to provide global audiences
with vital information on demand.
VideoVisor Web provides three windows, called Views, to display
streaming media, a clip list and Web-related information. VideoVisor
Web also includes a powerful search capability, greatly enhancing
productivity. Users can instantly search and navigate to specific parts
of a VideoVisor Web video.
For example, a sales representative or value-added reseller could
search a new product launch knowledge base for information content
containing pricing information, and VideoVisor Web would locate and
present just the video clips and associated information related to
product pricing.
About Video Publishing
Video Publishing is a new software technology that provides companies
and enterprises a way to rapidly re-purpose, publish and deploy video
content and related information to desktop computer users. Digital
Lava's video publishing software, VideoVisor(TM) Professional and
vPrism(TM), provides an open framework in which video, other desktop
applications, and data can link, collaborate and seamlessly integrate
on the desktop.
The process begins with vPrism, a fast, powerful and easy-to-use
software suite, that assimilates and manages video and other
information from diverse sources, organizes its content, creates links
to other important data and then rapidly publishes the information in
an open format called a VideoCapsule(TM) file.
VideoCapsules are "value-added video" files that integrate video with
other information: Web pages, documents, images, transcripts -- any
digitally formatted file or program. VideoCapsules may be distributed
on CD-ROMs or DVDs and streamed over LANs, WANs, intranets and the
Internet.
VideoVisor Professional is a powerful desktop video information
application that allows knowledge workers to rapidly navigate and
manipulate the video information contained in a VideoCapsule. Users may
search and annotate video, re-arrange and organize its content,
subtitle text and transcripts, access notes, and link to other files,
Web sites and applications.
VideoVisor Web is a turnkey Internet video service that allows users to
distribute on-demand audio and video presentations, along with
synchronized text, slides, Web pages and other Web-based information to
anyone on the Internet.
Business meetings, training sessions, corporate communication and
distance learning are good examples of how companies and educational
institutions can use VideoVisor Web to increase employee productivity
with instant access to information, without the expense of traveling.
All of Digital Lava's software is developed on an open and scaleable
architecture. Digital Lava is dedicated to delivering its core video
publishing software as an open architecture that supports the
industry's most widely accepted video file formats including ASF,
MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, QuickTime, and RealVideo 5.0 and G2.
In addition, Digital Lava supports streaming media technologies such as
Windows NT Server NetShow Services and Microsoft NetShow Theater
Server, RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) RealSystem 5.0 and RealSystem G2,
SGI (NYSE: SGI) WebFORCE(TM) MediaBase, Starlight Networks, Xing
Streamworks Server and InfoValue Server.
VideoVisor Web Pricing and Availability
Digital Lava's VideoVisor Web turnkey Internet video service is
available today, and includes customized options for video publishing,
Web site hosting and administration. Clients provide Digital Lava with
video or audio content, slides, and any other pertinent information;
then Digital Lava publishes value-added video files for Web access.
Because each VideoVisor Web presentation is customized according to
clients' individual needs, pricing for Digital Lava services varies.
About Digital Lava
Founded in 1995, Digital Lava is a provider of video publishing
software and services related to the use of video for corporate
training, communications, distance learning, research and other
applications. Digital Lava provides business with the next step in
video technology -- transforming cumbersome linear video into easily
accessible and manageable digital information.
For the first time, organizations and professionals can rapidly create
and deploy interactive video-based content, increasing the productivity
of knowledge workers. Digital Lava's vPrism(TM) allows users to
re-purpose vast amounts of video and electronic information on CD-ROM,
DVD, corporate intranets and the Internet.
Digital Lava's VideoVisor Professional is a desktop video information
application, enabling users to rapidly access and navigate, manipulate
and integrate video-based information on a desktop computer. All of
Digital Lava's software is developed on an open and scaleable
architecture.
Digital Lava has headquarters in Los Angeles. For additional
information, visit Digital Lava's Web site at www.digitallava.com or
call 888/222-LAVA.
This news release contains forward-looking statements concerning the
business and products of the company. Actual results may differ from
those projected or implied by such forward-looking statements depending
on a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to
the following: development, shipment and market acceptance. Other risks
inherent in the business of the company are described in Securities and
Exchange Commission filings, including the company prospectus on Form
SB-2. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the
date of this release.
Note to Editors: VideoVisor, VideoCapsule and vPrism are trademarks of
Digital Lava Inc. All other products are trademarks of their respective
owners.
Copyright (C) 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved.
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CONTACT: Digital Lava Inc., Los Angeles
Lynn Stadler, 310/470-1149, ext. 221
lynns@digitallava.com
www.digitallava.com
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