Telestream Defies the Economy with Record Growth and Major New Products

Las Vegas, the NAB Show™, April 11, 2010

Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, arrived at the NAB Show™ this week with three major new products and record-breaking revenue growth. Despite a volatile economy, Telestream cited Q1 2010 as the most successful quarter on record. Revenues for enterprise products were up 25% for the first quarter over the previous year, and desktop products finished with strong 45% growth. This follows more than a decade of strong, double-digit consecutive annual revenue growth. Today, more than 80% of the top broadcast station groups, media companies and Fortune 100 companies, along with millions of consumers rely on Telestream products. With the burst of new products being introduced at the NAB Show, Telestream’s customers and business will be further augmented.

“Building on our strength of growth and products, we are continuing to offer innovative new solutions to better meet the needs of our customers and to help build the digital media world of the next decade,” said Dan Castles, CEO of Telestream. “We are launching major new products in our core file-based product areas, as well as a key new product for the live webcasting market. This follows two years of intense research and development, an acquisition to further expand our offerings, two global leadership awards in the video transcoder market in 2009, all topped by record first quarter sales and profitability.”

Telestream’s new products address major challenges and opportunities in the video industry. As companies continue to face cost reductions, declining revenues from traditional distribution channels, and the need to support a growing number of new channels, Telestream brings products to NAB that address all these needs. The new Telestream solutions improve operational efficiency, help facilitate the migration to IT and open doors to new business opportunities, including in the live streaming space.

New Products Make their NAB Debut
• Vantage™ is a major new enterprise-class workflow design and automation software solution that revolutionizes video capture, transcoding, metadata processing, analysis, graphics assembly and video file management in IT video environments.
• Vantage™ Transcode is a powerful, affordable enterprise-class server transcoder. Built on the award-winning FlipFactory® transcode engine, Vantage Transcode offers the industry’s broadest and deepest file format support for broadcast, cable, edit, web, mobile, VOD, and IPTV workflows.
• Episode® 6 is an industry-first, cross-platform, desktop-to-server software that takes video encoding to the next level by allowing users to pool resources to share encoding work across multiple computers in a mixed environment of Macs and PCs.
• Wirecast™ live webcasting software features a major 4.0 release and new Wirecast Pro product that allows anyone to easily create real-time or on-demand professional video broadcasts for the web.

Existing Products: Record Sales and New Features

FlipFactory, which until today has been Telestream’s flagship video transcoding and workflow product, achieved its highest sales on record in March 2010. Telestream continues to support FlipFactory with active product development. New features include support for Pitch Blue HD syndication delivery service with full Dolby E and closed caption support. Support is also added for Levels Beyond Inc. Reach Engine media platform, the new Pathfire HD DMG for syndication, and DG FastChannel SpotBox for ad delivery. Additional new spot delivery service support includes ExtremeReach, FastForward Digital, OnTheSpot Media, Radiance, Spot Genie, Hula and Yangaroo. New format support includes AVC Intra encode and decode for Panasonic P2 and Omneon Spectrum, JPEG-2000 for 360 Systems MAXX HD server, plus iPhone segmented file creation.

Telestream Pipeline™ network-based video capture devices also achieved record sales in the first quarter 2010. The product includes new playout-to-tape capability and full integration with Image Communications Compusat software. Footage from In Performance at the White House, a PBS program which was captured with Pipeline in February, is being featured in demonstrations at Telestream’s NAB booth SL3614.

More information is available at http://www.telestream.net.

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About Telestream

Telestream provides world-class live and on-demand digital video tools and workflow solutions that allow consumers and businesses to transform video on the desktop and across the enterprise. Many of the world’s most demanding media and entertainment companies such as CBS, BBC, CNN, FOX, CBC, Comcast, Direct TV, Time Warner, MTV, Discovery, and Lifetime, as well as a growing number of users in a broad range of business environments, rely on Telestream products to streamline operations, reach broader audiences and generate more revenue from their media. These companies choose to work with Telestream as they know they will get a trusted and highly skilled technical partner. Telestream products span the entire digital media lifecycle, including video capture and ingest; live and on-demand encoding and transcoding; playout, delivery, and live streaming; as well as management and automation of the entire workflow. The company also partners closely with the industry’s leading digital media companies across the entire digital media lifecycle, from consumer to enterprise. Telestream corporate headquarters are located in Nevada City, California. The company is privately held. For more information on Telestream and Wirecast, please visit http://www.telestream.net. For press images, logos, screen shots and corporate materials, visit http://www.telestream.net/presskit .

mDialog Introduces iPad In-Stream Interactive Ad-Overlays for Live and VOD Streaming Video

NAB, Las Vegas, NV, April 13, 2010—mDialog, a leading mobile video and in-stream ad management platform, today announced a breakthrough for iPad live and VOD adaptive streaming with mDialog interactive ad-overlays for the iPad.  Building on mDialog’s robust video streaming solution and ad management platform for the iPhone and iPad, mDialog is delivering content across Akamai’s HD Network, allowing for high performance and availability of mDialog powered video and ad content.

mDialog’s new interactive overlay solution gives broadcasters an engaging option for monetizing content on the iPad.  With live and VOD streaming capabilities powered through Akamai, advertisers are now able, for the very first time, to deliver perfectly targeted overlaid advertising on live events and pre-recorded video streamed on the iPad.  Interactive overlays directly involve the user in determining what advertising content they experience, going as far as giving the viewer the opportunity, on the fly, to choose which ad they would prefer to view.

mDialog’s interactive overlay technology combines impression-based, CPM-driven, in-stream video advertising with actionable, cost-per-click advertising, allowing users to experience the advertising they want, on their own terms.  mDialog provides live and VOD broadcasters with the only complete adaptive streaming delivery platform with seamless interactive ad-overlays and in-stream ad-insertion with geo-targeting, day-parting and frequency capping.

Interactive video ad-overlays provide a perfect complement to the already extensive mDialog toolset, which includes to-the-second dynamic ad insertion services available through the mDialog Video Player SDK, as well as Safari HTML5 player. The mDialog SDK takes advantage of specific features only the iPad can offer, ultimately enhancing the viewing experience on these breakthrough devices and providing the publisher and advertisers the tools they need to easily stream and monetize their video on mobile. 

“With our new in-stream interactive overlays and our ability to deliver targeted ad content to live and VOD audiences, Akamai’s HD Network solution means mDialog customers are assured their video and associated advertising will be delivered to the right audience in the right ad market.  mDialog now stands as the most complete video and ad management platform for the iPhone and iPad on the market,” commented Greg Philpott, President and Founder, mDialog.

mDialog @ NAB 2010 in Destination Broadband Pavilion Booth #SU9506L.
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About mDialog The mDialog platform is a real-time, Video as a Service (VaaS) solution that provides video publishers and advertisers a suite of services to manage and stream high-res video, with in-stream advertising, to mobile devices. The mDialog’s Dynamic Ad-insertion service lets advertisers increase the relevancy of their brand messaging with real-time, mobile-specific ad-targeting through geo-location, audience interactivity and mobile device level ad frequency capping.

Next-generation interactive TV enables newly developed broadcasting system

Vienna, 12 April 2010 – bwin, the world’s leading publicly quoted online gaming provider, is staging the world debut of its broadcasting system Sheeva at the digital media industry’s leading trade fair, the NAB Show, from 12 to 15 April 2010 in Las Vegas. Sheeva fuses live video with social media platforms and instant messaging systems while simultaneously integrating real-time data from bwin’s extensive online gaming line-up. To give a practical example, a soccer game broadcast can be enhanced with inserts from bwin gaming line-up and a moderator-controlled Skype chat. Thomas Fürstner, Director of Research & Development at bwin, sums up the core of this development: “VJ and online-gaming culture have merged with Sheeva to form a new interactive TV experience.”
According to current figures from the Nielsen market research company, 43% of all European TV viewers between 15 and 35 years of age simultaneously watch TV and surf the web on their PC or mobile terminal. This is an incentive for TV and content producers to do some rethinking, in order to bring new formats from a platform to every conceivable type of terminal. The bwin Research & Development Department has met this challenge by combining bwin’s wide-ranging online gaming line-up, maximum interactivity and the product experience by means of Sheeva, in order to satisfy the new consumer demands.

Moderator controls studio technology
Sheeva uses a graphical programming language and a framework of audio, video and web technologies. In addition, lighting and studio technology can be controlled by one person, which minimises equipment and HR costs. In the background, all the online-gaming transactions are processed by the existing back-end and billing system.
Sheeva is designed as a highly flexible system that can broadcast in real time via satellite, the Web and mobile TV in a single production environment. “So what we do is transform all kinds of internet messaging and social media platforms into a TV signal, which we then bring to the mobile phones of our customers in HD quality via satellite, as a flash video over the internet or via a terrestrial DVB-H signal,” adds Fürstner. In so doing, we rely on the Apple Quartz image technology, Quicktime and just:live from the Austrian broadcast specialist ToolsOnAir. just:live puts the real-time data converted into graphics into a format suitable for TV and the internet.

About bwin
The bwin Group has over 20 million registered customers in more than 25 core markets and operates a number of platforms offering sports betting, poker, casino games, fortune and skill games as well as audio and video streams of top sporting events such as the German football Bundesliga. The parent company bwin Interactive Entertainment AG (“bwin”) is listed in the blue chip ATX index on the Vienna Stock Exchange and provides its subsidiaries and associated companies with various services such as software development, marketing, communication, human resources and finance. The operational business of the bwin Group is conducted by subsidiaries and associated companies based on licenses (e.g. in Germany, Italy or Gibraltar). Further information about the Company can be found on its investor relations website at http://www.bwin.org. (ID code BWIN, Reuters ID code BWIN.VI)

About ToolsOnAir
Based in Vienna, Austria, ToolsOnAir designs intuitive global workflow solutions to meet the time-intensive demands of today’s fast-paced video broadcast professionals. The company’s acclaimed just: Broadcast Suite of powerful Quicktime-based applications delivers seamless integration of multi-format video, graphics, automation and asset management. For more information visit http://www.toolsonair.com

THE FOUNDRY LAUNCH NUKE 3RD PARTY PLUG-IN PARTNER PROGRAMME WITH GENARTS

Leading visual effects software company, The Foundry, today announced the release of Nuke 6.0v4, NukeX 6.0v4 and the launch of its Nuke plug-in installer.
The Nuke plug-in installer application allows users to easily download trial versions of The Foundry’s Nuke plug-ins as well as those of selected 3rd parties.
As part of the strategic alliance agreement between The Foundry and GenArts, signed in February this year, GenArts are the flagship partner and the first to offer their Sapphire plug-ins alongside those of The Foundry.
Nuke 6.0v4, NukeX 6.0v4 and all subsequent releases will offer a fully functioning six-week trial version of GenArts Sapphire™ at installation.  This is double the trial period normally offered providing Nuke artists with a great opportunity to put Sapphire on Nuke through its paces – potentially on a live commercial project.

“Our new third party program marks the first time that The Foundry has featured a partner’s plug-ins for Nuke and reinforces our commitment to plug-ins. We believe plug-ins can add a whole new dimension to Nuke making it more attractive to a variety of artists.” said Bill Collis, CEO, The Foundry.
“Our customers have consistently said that they view their host platform and plug-ins as a single, intertwined solution,” said Katherine Hays, CEO, GenArts. “We’re thrilled that Nuke users have such a seamless way to install a fully-functional Sapphire trial and explore its amazing benefits for a full six weeks. Our strategic alliance with The Foundry, and particularly this Sapphire trial feature of Nuke, is an excellent example of how our two companies are committed to working together to deliver unique value to artists.”
The Foundry is in discussions with a number of other plug-in providers to raise awareness of the excellent plug-ins available to Nuke artists and bring them within easy reach.
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About The Foundry
The Foundry is a world-leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity in motion picture and video post-production. The Foundry has a well- established client base that includes leading visual effects facilities worldwide, such as Warner Bros., The Moving Picture Company, Weta Digital, Framestore, Sony Pictures Imageworks and Digital Domain. It is at the cutting edge of software development, marketing and sales for visual effects compositing. In June 2009, The Foundry announced a management buyout for an undisclosed sum led by Advent Venture Partners. Advent backed The Foundry’s management team, led by CEO Dr Bill Collis and the original founders.
The Foundry is highly profitable and has more than doubled in size in the past two years. The Foundry’s products support a wide range of award-winning host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Nuke, Shake and Final Cut Pro. In 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded a Sci-Tech Award® to The Foundry’s development team for the Furnace image processing suite – and the company now holds two products with AMPAS Sci-Tech Award® winning technology including high-end compositing system Nuke.
The Foundry is headquartered in London, and has offices in Los Angeles. For more information please visit: http://www.thefoundry.co.uk