Envivio Broadcast Studio Nominated for First Annual Creativity and Technology Award
September 24, 2001, Brisbane, CA: Envivio announced its Broadcast Studio product was nominated for a 2001 Creative and Technology Award in the Future Media Category: An Award for an Outstanding Technology or Application in the Realm of New Media. The awards were presented at a special luncheon at the IBC exhibition in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on September 18th, 2001. Envivio's Broadcast Studio took 2nd place in the Future Media Category, a singular honor given its recent introduction and the caliber of the other nominees.
Created by TVBEurope & Content Creation Europe, and spanning the gamut of broadcast and content creation technologies - everything from transmitters and microphones to 3D animation packages and hardware CODECs - the Creative and Technology Awards seek to recognize exceptional technologies and the creativity that drives their application. A panel of respected journalists and industry representatives generated a shortlist of candidates thought to personify the very best of what this varied industry has to offer. A broader collection of professionals hailing from the post, manufacturing, audio and broadcast industries then cast their votes to decide the winners in the following categories: Invention, Innovation, Broadcast, Audio, Post, and Future Media.
Introduced at NAB 2001, Envivio Broadcast Studio (EBS) is a comprehensive, MPEG-4 composition and post-production environment for the broadcast industry, featuring a range of patented Envivio technologies that add unique power and capabilities to the production process. Designed to be feature rich and powerfully simple, EBS is a multi-user design environment that will maximize productivity of an entire post-production team in creating MPEG-4 encoded content for streaming and Interactive TV programming.
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 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. The Envivio Solution includes various components to create, encode, protect and distribute MPEG-4 content: the Envivio Encoding Station for offline encoding and protection of MPEG-4 audio and video, the Envivio Broadcast Studio for authoring complete MPEG-4 applications, the Envivio Media Server, to distribute MPEG-4 content over the Web and broadcast networks, and EnvivioTV™ to retrieve and playback 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. For further information, visit us at www.envivio.com
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