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InGenius Multimedia Announces sofTV.net
Breakthrough in auto-dynamic multimedia web site creation
NAB ’99 – Las Vegas, Nevada, April 19, 1999 - InGenius Multimedia today announced sofTV.net, the ground-breaking Internet version of its industry leading sofTV multimedia TV channel creation suite. The same integration, flexibility, and ease of use that sofTV has provided to broadcasters for use over cable networks and closed circuit is now available to Portals, Internet Content Providers, and to web site operators with a desire to revolutionize the look and value of their web sites. sofTV.net will be demonstrated here at NAB ’99 in the InGenius Multimedia booth S7471 and in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion booth S5533.
sofTV.net puts the sophisticated scheduling, content management, and layout editing tools of a broadcast television network into the hands of portal providers and all their corporate web customers. sofTV.net uses the power of sofTV and DHTML to dynamically control both format and content throughout the web site, minimizing bandwidth requirements and providing a very high quality experience to the web site viewer. The automated scheduling and content updating features of sofTV.net maximize the appeal and value of the web site to surfers while minimizing manpower and maintenance costs
"Whether you’re a Portal Provider thinking about how to attract the best Content, Advertising, and E-Commerce to your site, a Content Provider looking to wield a knock-out punch to your competitors, a major Broadcaster wanting to instantly multiply your viewing audience, or a Corporation building a world-class Internet presence, sofTV.net is for you," says Dale Gantous, President of InGenius Multimedia.
"Surfing a traditional web site is like reading a book – the content may be valid, but there’s no sizzle. Surfing a web site produced with sofTV.net is an experience, like watching interactive TV," says Rich Loen, InGenius Multimedia’s VP of Engineering and Imagination. "It’s alive, it’s up to the second, it’s multimedia, and it’s interactive. The Portals needs something like this, and they need it now."
sofTV.net provides total automation of web site creation, making use of all the creative collateral that a corporation already has on hand. Broadcasters and advertisers can multiply their advertising sales with almost no increase in costs. Corporations can continuously play advertisements for their products and services, tied in with related text, graphics, and URL information that lead the viewer toward making a purchase. sofTV.net also totally revolutionizes corporate Intranets – it provides a TV-channel look to a web site, at a fraction of the normal production costs.
sofTV.net features include:
- Automated production of interactive, dynamic multimedia web sites
- Streaming video and audio, prescheduled and/or live
- Seamless switching between multiple video sources: tape, MPEG, ASF, RMFF, live camera feeds
- Live, up-to-the-second information feeds, including news, sports, weather, traffic, stock ticker, etc.
- Dynamically changing and moving graphics, text crawls and rolls, video and audio, all automatic
- Current, accurate time and date
- Ability to schedule multiple, continuous video/text/graphics advertising spots
- Collection of as-played logs for billing purposes
sofTV.net works with Microsoft Streaming Media and RealNetworks streaming video products.
About InGenius Multimedia Inc.
InGenius Multimedia Inc. is part of the InGenius family of companies, in business since 1986 providing leading-edge software solutions to the telecommunications and broadcast industries. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, InGenius is a privately held company employing approximately 100 people in Ottawa and Calgary.
sofTV and sofTV.net are registered trademarks of InGenius Multimedia Inc. All other product and company names are trademarks of their respective holders.
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