Vividas launches landmark video streaming suite

Vivcast Encoding Suite solves complexity of publishing large quantities
of video content online

London 25 April, 2006: Vividas, one of the world's leading developers and providers of full-screen video streaming technology, today announces the launch of its Vivcast Encoding Suite. This new range provides an all-in-one digital encoder for any organisation that wishes to publish large quantities of video content on the Internet.

The Vivcast units are a simple, cost-effective means for organisations or resellers to deliver platform independent, full-screen, broadcast-quality video content instantly to an unlimited global audience. Whether it's a broadcaster wanting to stream the latest TV programme, or a company making its annual CEO announcement, Vivcast has been specially designed to stream video content quickly and conveniently, without users needing to download software before viewing.

In the past, companies had to rely on a number of different suppliers to provide the hardware, software and hosting services to make large-scale video communications possible. This caused logistical nightmares, compounded by the management of encoding to a range of different formats. Vivcast technology offers the whole package in one box and one universal format, with a simple pricing structure and product support. Companies will be charged for the box rental, as well as pay per view charge for each user.

Vivcast has a broad market base, developed to cater for the video requirements of anyone from advertising agencies and those looking to set-up an internet TV station, to video resellers and the big internet players like Google and AOL. The unit is simply rented for a monthly flat fee, rather than users being charged confusing tariffs based on gigabytes per month or set-up fees. Vividas uses a standard web server to deliver the video, so it can easily be integrated into existing companies infrastructure.

Vivcast offers the additional benefit of security, allowing organisations to produce, encode and distribute videos with sensitive company data internally, rather than relying on an outside supplier, and with Full Digital Rights Management support (DRM).
Vivcast also provides video that can be viewed by anyone with internet access, from a dial-up connection to high-speed broadband.

Richard Collins, CEO of Vividas, commented: "Until now, large-scale video communications have been complicated to set-up and expensive to maintain. We are offering corporates a one-stop-shop for their video requirements with a simple pricing structure and unlimited number of streams. Quite simply, Vividas is making full-screen, mass video streaming affordable and simple for the first time. We're looking forward to rapid expansion over the next few months as the product suite really takes off."