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sofTV.net launches sofTV.ShowAndTell empowers educators to create online or CD based audio lectures with synchronized Powerpoint™ slides
NAB 2002, Booth #S6735, LAS VEGAS, NV, April 8, 2002 - sofTV.net Inc. (www.softv.net), a leader in streaming media software tools, today released sofTV.ShowAndTellTM, a key addition to its software product line targeted at Educational and Corporate end-users. sofTV.ShowAndTell is low-cost desktop tool used directly by professors while they are giving a lecture, to simultaneously record and create a web-based version of the lecture. sofTV.ShowAndTell automatically creates a web page with the speaker's PowerPointTM presentation, synchronized with the speaker's voice. Students or viewers can watch and listen to the lecture streamed over the Internet, or can download it and play it back locally on their own computer.
Educators are adopting streaming media technology to improve teaching methods and to reach more students outside campus boundaries. Key product features include:
- Automatically creates the web page while the speaker is giving the lecture.
- Automatically encodes the audio and synchronizes the PowerPointTM Slides and Notes with the audio.
- Viewers can watch the lecture over the Internet, or download it for local playback. - Viewers can navigate through the lecture using thumbnail images of the slides and a table of contents.
- Viewers can watch from a PC or a Mac, over dial-up or broadband, using standard browsers.
- Extremely easy to use for non-technical users.
sofTV.net has achieved status as a world-class software provider with sales of its sofTV.Presenter.2 product to major corporations including McDonald's, Ford, Cisco, Compaq, HP, and AT&T. It is now making headway into the Education market with sales into major universities including Michigan State, Penn State, Washburn, Drexel, and Algonquin. "We have been looking for rapid development tools for building web-based interactive learning modules for many years," says Laurence Bates of Michigan State University. "sofTV.net's software tools are by far the best that we have come across for busy educators who have too much to say and too little time to say it."
"We've really listened to what Educators need, and what they need is ease of use and guaranteed flawless viewing of online lectures by students with no hassles. With our years of experience in streaming and Internet technology, we've been able to ensure that sofTV.ShowAndTell will work for Educators not just in their labs, but in the real world they and their students live in, of limited time, limited bandwidth, dial-up modems, and multiple browsers running on Macs and PCs," says Dale Gantous, CEO of sofTV.net.
sofTV.ShowAndTell is available for free trial downloads from sofTV.net's web site, at www.softv.net. Demos are available for viewing at http://www.softv.net/softvnet/demos/education_demos.htm. The product is available for purchase by contacting sofTV.net at sales@softv.net.
About sofTV.net
sofTV.net Inc. is a world leader in the streaming media software market, providing software products that allow end-users to create web-based rich media presentations and training web pages, in minutes. sofTV.net's products are also used by broadcasters and e-tailers to create online rich media entertainment and shopping applications.
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