Envivio Announces Partnership With Dentsu, Dentsu Tec to Create and Distribute Interactive MPEG-4 Content in Japan
Partnership to Increase the Adoption of MPEG-4 in the Japanese Market
South San Francisco, Calif., June 10, 2002 -- Envivio Inc., a leading MPEG-4 software company, today announced a partnership with Dentsu, Dentsu Tec to create and distribute interactive MPEG-4 content in Japan. This partnership brings together the world’s first full MPEG-4 solution with a top advertiser in Japan.
Interest in MPEG-4 technology is rapidly growing in the Japanese market. Dentsu, Dentsu Tec, along with Envivio, will help increase the adoption of MPEG-4 as the standard for creating, managing and distributing digital content. Because the Envivio MPEG-4 product line is standards-based, customers can easily implement MPEG-4 with existing systems. With the Envivio product suite, users are also able to create content once for distribution to many devices, including, broadband, Internet and wireless.
"We see MPEG-4 as the clear solution for creating and distributing standards-based content to the marketplace," stated Mr. Minekawa, Senior Manager of Dentsu’s broadband department. Envivio provides the standards-based, end-to-end solution the market has been looking for, making it a clear choice for supporting MPEG-4.”
Daihatsu Motor Company recently chose Envivio and Dentsu, Dentsu Tec to create an interactive site in order to utilize the advanced interactive features of MPEG-4. This site helps advertise their Opensports car COPEN, which was exhibited in the Tokyo motor show (www.copen.jp). By using Envivio’s advanced MPEG-4 product line, companies such as Daihatsu Motor Company are able to easily create, stream, and view MPEG-4 content.
"With Dentsu, Dentsu Tec as a content partner in Japan, we see huge potential for growth in the MPEG-4 market,” stated Julien Signès, President of Envivio. “Dentsu, Dentsu Tec has created a good following in Japan, and will continue to increase the adoption rate of MPEG-4.”
About Envivio
Envivio is the leading developer of end-to-end MPEG-4 solutions utilizing a rich set of integrated streaming media elements: high performance audio and video, two dimensional graphics and animation, providing a 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 plug-in to the RealSystem Server, to distribute MPEG-4 content over the Web and broadcast networks, and the EnvivioTV™ plug-in to the RealOne Player and RealPlayer to retrieve and playback MPEG-4 content.
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For more information about Envivio, please contact:
Envivio
Barry Strauss
bstrauss@envivio.com
+1 650 243 2718
For more information about Dentsu, please visit their website at: www.dentsu.com.
For more information about Dentsu tec, please visit their website at: www.dentsutec.com.
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