Envivio and Perfect Technologies Join Force to Provide End-to-End MPEG-4 Streaming & Broadcast Solutions to Broadcasters, Webcasters, Corporate and Contents Production Facilities
Paris, June 13, NarrowCast 2001: Perfect Technologies, a leader in Internet-image services and solutions, and Envivio.com, Inc., the leading company for end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive broadcasting solutions, today announced that they are teaming together to provide professional MPEG-4 based turn-key solutions.
Perfect Technologies and Envivio will propose the complete end-to-end MPEG-4 solution to deliver rich media applications PC users. Perfect Technologies will bring its expertise in the area of interactive broadcast and webcast solutions and streaming over IP networks, and Envivio will bring its end-to-end MPEG-4 interactive broadcasting solutions. Envivio is considered by Perfect Technologies to be the most advanced company in the field of MPEG-4 end-to-end solutions for the industry.
Using the Envivio MPEG-4 authoring tool, broadcaster, corporate, content developer and other post production facility can author rich media scenes with audio, video, text, graphics and viewer interactivity, all within MPEG-4's powerful object oriented environment. Once authored, the media can be distributed to any MPEG-4 capable devices. The use of MPEG-4 contents will increase revenues through new interactive programming and enhanced advertising value, and reduce post-production costs through simplified encoding. For example, corporate can use Envivio's Mpeg-4 solution to create their own Intranet and Extranet corporate TV channels, and diffuse / manage all type of information worldwide through the Internet capabilities (e.commerce, e.marketing, interactive learning / training, interactive games / lotteries, interactive advertisings, etc.).
"The Streaming Media industry considers MPEG-4 technology as a key component of its future", states Paul Isnard, Managing Director for Perfect Technologies. "Our partnership with Envivio enables us to play a major role in the next step of the Internet".
"We are very proud to have Perfect Technologies as partner", says Gilles Dupuis, Sales & Business Development Europe, for Envivio. "Their reputation for quality and services will help bring MPEG-4 to the forefront of rich media strategies for the industry. We are excited about this opportunity to work closely with an established partner in broadcast and webcast solutions."
About Perfect Technologies
Perfect Technologies is the French leader in digital video technologies for television and Internet. Supported by partnerships concluded with world leaders in Internet (Digital Island, Microsoft, EMC2, Sun Microsystems, RealNetworks, etc.), the group has developed a global offer based on providing services, engineering and sale of solutions for production, enciphering, Rich Media and video distribution on IP. Perfect Technologies provides a unique, global response to the streaming needs of media and companies. The group is listed on the Nouveau Marché of the Paris Stock Exchange (SICOVAM code: 6591, Reuters: PFTH.LN, Bloomberg: PFCT-NM).
For more information : www.perfect.fr
Contact: Antoine Lejeune - Tel. + 33 1 41 44 50 09 > e-mail: alejeune@perfect.fr
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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.
