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New
JVC Web Site to Offer Camera Owners POPcast’s Streaming Media
Authoring, Publishing and Broadcasting Solutions
LAS VEGAS, COMDEX, BOOTH 6135 --(Nov. 15, 2000)-- POPcast Communications
Corp., a leading provider of personal broadcasting services
and broadband-enabling technologies, and leading consumer electronics
manufacturer JVC Company of America announced the completion
of an agreement to create a cutting- edge shared video community
for users of JVC’s camcorders worldwide.
The announcement was made at the COMDEX/Fall 2000 event, which
began Monday in Las Vegas and continues through Friday, Nov.
17. POPcast’s exhibit is located within the Intel Pentium Pavilion,
booth 6135.
Under the terms of the one-year agreement, POPcast will create
and host all aspects of the JVC Shared Video Community, providing
its proprietary streaming media creation and publishing software,
media management toolset and complete back-end services in return
for undisclosed licensing fees and extensive co-marketing activities.
Members of the new community will have the ability to easily
create, publish and share rich-media content on the Web using
POPcast’s complete array of streaming media services and solutions.
“JVC is excited to partner with POPcast to build a video
community on our website,” said Jerry Barbera, Vice
President of JVC Company of America’s Consumer Video Division.
“By teaming up with POPcast, JVC intends to marry the high
quality videos produced with a JVC camcorder with the broadband
technologies provided by POPcast. This kind of video community
will revolutionize the way we create, view and email videos
today."
“We are very proud to be working with JVC, a world leader
in both professional and consumer electronics, to offer their
customers the ability to easily leverage the latest technologies
to extend their use of video content over the Web,” said
POPcast’s founder and chairman William Mutual.
Every member of JVC’s Shared Video Community can download a
customized version of the POPcasterä video creation and publishing
software and use it to capture, edit, and automatically publish
their finished productions into their free 10MB account. From
there, members can instantly share their personal Webcasts with
their friends, family members and colleagues around the world
via POPcast's Personal Broadcast Network™. Free services provide
for encoding at rates as high as 110 kilobytes-per- second (kbps);
members can upgrade their accounts to store 50 megabytes of
content encoded at 220 kbps for only $12.95 per month. Playback
of the encoded content will include a “Powered by POPcast” graphic
linked to www.popcast.com.
The new community is set to launch on or before Dec. 1, 2000.
About POPcast Communications Corporation POPcast is the industry-leading
infrastructure provider of personal broadcasting solutions for
web portals, broadband ISPs, communications providers and corporations.
POPcast pioneered the personal broadcasting revolution as the
first service provider to offer branded turnkey solutions over
a secure, global network optimized for person-to-person video
messaging and live personal broadcasting. Through partnerships
with world-class hardware, software and networking firms, POPcast
leads the way in personal video innovation, system deployments,
ease-of-use and quality-of-service. The Los Angeles-based, privately
held company was founded in 1997 by veteran live-event streaming
media service provider ITVnet. For more information, please
visit www.popcast.com.
About JVC Company of America
JVC has been recognized worldwide as the leader in digital video
camcorders. The JVC line of Digital CyberCams continues to lead
the industry in quality, features and performance. JVC, headquartered
in Wayne, New Jersey, is a leading consumer electronics manufacturer.
The company distributes a complete line of video and audio equipment
including DVD players and changers, camcorders, VCRs, color
televisions, home and portable audio equipment, mobile entertainment
and blank tapes.
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