Envivio Teams With Wavexpress to Develop Enhanced Content Delivery Tools for Broadcasters
Agreement covers joint product development, sales and marketing cooperation
Booth e2950, NAB 2001, Las Vegas, NV, Date: April 22, 2001 — Envivio.com, Inc, the leader in MPEG-4 broadcast software solutions and Wavexpress, a leading provider of integrated services to digital broadcasters, announced today that they will develop technology to offer a more powerful and complete data broadcast platform for creating and distributing MPEG-4 signals to both PC and TV clients. Sales, marketing and development
cooperation, including a reseller agreement, will lead to integrated product offerings. Content owners will add InterTrust-based business rules to their content through the normal editing process with Envivio Broadcast Studio, Envivio’s multi-user MPEG-4 authoring tool, which can then be distributed, cached for later viewing and purchased through TVTonic™, Wavexpress’ EMBASSY™-enabled broadcast platform. This partnership is another step in
Envivio’s strategy to assure the protection of AV and other content offered over broadband networks.
EnvivioTV™, Envivio’s MPEG-4 client software, will be integrated with Wavexpress’ TVTonic™. The companies will also explore the further integration of other Envivio software into the Wavexpress ADK, which would enable MPEG-4 based programming with DRM technology from InterTrust (and other DRM developers), and unique e-commerce models enabled by EMBASSY™.
“Envivio’s strategy for developing the MPEG-4 market involves working with the ‘best and brightest’ partners, content developers and resellers,” said Alexander Hoag, COO for Envivio. “We’re working with Wavexpress as part of a comprehensive partnership program that we hope will make Envivio products part of the best digital media solutions offered to the broadcast and cable network industries.”
“Envivio further extends the unique level of content protection Wavexpress provides to our digital broadcast customers,” said Wavexpress President Cliff Jenks. “Together, we are marketing an in-depth MPEG-4 datacasting solution that answers digital broadcasters’ needs today.”
Visit Envivio at NAB at Booth e2950 in the E-Topia area at the Sands Exhibition center, April 22-27, 2001. Wavexpress will be showing TVTonic in the Microsoft Partner Pavilion, Booth I 5612, April 23-27.
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About Envivio:
Envivio.com, Inc. is the leading developer of end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive broadcasting solutions utilizing MPEG-4’s rich set of integrated streaming media elements: high performance audio and video, two- and three dimensional graphics and animation, and rich interactive user experience. The company maintains a worldwide perspective on creating MPEG-4-based solutions to enable broadcasters, distribution network operators and content developers to build new revenues and utilize the efficiencies of targeting content at the full range of MPEG-4 capable devices. Envivio’s solutions include Envivio Broadcast Studio for MPEG-4 authoring, Envivio Media Servers to distribute, and EnvivioTV™ to receive MPEG-4 content. The company is privately held and has received investments from Royal Philips Electronics, France Telecom, Sigma Designs, Aurora Ventures, Global Accelerator and other
leading broadband media investors.
About Wavexpress, Inc.
Wavexpress provides integrated services to digital broadcasters. A joint venture of Wave Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: WAVX) and Sarnoff Corporation, Wavexpress delivers enhanced content and rich media—movies, music, sports, news, computer games, software—over a digital broadcast signal direct to any DTV-enabled PC. Wavexpress provides a full range of secure data broadcast architecture, infrastructure, and services to broadcasters, content providers and consumers. Wavexpress’ broadcast e-commerce system offers a variety of business models, including ad-supported content distribution, pay-per-use, purchase transactions, and subscription services. Integrating over $100 million in research and development, Wavexpress capitalizes on the broadcast engineering expertise of Sarnoff, and Wave Systems’ EMBASSY™ technology and back-office systems that handle distributed content protection and transaction reporting functions. For more information, visit the Wavexpress web site at: www.wavexpress.com. TVTonic™ is currently in beta testing with content, broadcast and technology partners. Interested users can get more information about TVTonic™ from its Web site at http://www.tvtonic.com. TVTonic delivers “Interactive TV Made Easy.”™ All you need is an analog tuner card and the TVTonic™ application installed on your PC. Using a digital tuner card brings you crystal clear HDTV pictures and allows you to receive datacast content stored on your hard drive. The attachment of the EMBASSY™ meter allows you to purchase datacast and Web content securely and privately.
