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LAS VEGAS, COMDEX—Nov.
16, 2000—
POPcast Communications Corp., a provider
of personal broadcasting services and broadband-enabling technologies,
and leading consumer electronics manufacturer JVC Company of America has
announced the completion of an agreement to create a cutting- edge shared
video community for users of JVC’s camcorders worldwide.
Under the terms of the one-year agreement, POPcast will create and host
all aspects of the JVC Shared Video Community, providing its proprietary
streaming media creation and publishing software, media management toolset
and complete back-end services in return for undisclosed licensing fees
and extensive co-marketing activities. Members of the new community will
have the ability to easily create, publish and share rich-media content
on the Web using POPcast’s complete array of streaming media services
and solutions.
“JVC is excited to partner with POPcast to build a video community
on our website,” said Jerry Barbera, Vice President of JVC
Company of America’s Consumer Video Division. “By teaming up with POPcast,
JVC intends to marry the high quality videos produced with a JVC camcorder
with the broadband technologies provided by POPcast. This kind of video
community will revolutionize the way we create, view and email videos
today."
“We are very proud to be working with JVC, a world leader in both professional
and consumer electronics, to offer their customers the ability to easily
leverage the latest technologies to extend their use of video content
over the Web,” said POPcast’s founder and chairman William Mutual.
Every member of JVC’s Shared Video Community can download a customized
version of the POPcasterä video creation and publishing software and use
it to capture, edit, and automatically publish their finished productions
into their free 10MB account. From there, members can instantly share
their personal Webcasts with their friends, family members and colleagues
around the world via POPcast's Personal Broadcast Network. Free services
provide for encoding at rates as high as 110 kilobytes-per- second (kbps);
members can upgrade their accounts to store 50 megabytes of content encoded
at 220 kbps for only $12.95 per month. Playback of the encoded content
will include a “Powered by POPcast” graphic linked to www.popcast.com.
The new community is set to launch on or before Dec. 1, 2000.
About POPcast Communications Corporation
POPcast is the industry-leading infrastructure provider of personal broadcasting
solutions for web portals, broadband ISPs, communications providers and
corporations. POPcast pioneered the personal broadcasting revolution as
the first service provider to offer branded turnkey solutions over a secure,
global network optimized for person-to-person video messaging and live
personal broadcasting. Through partnerships with world-class hardware,
software and networking firms, POPcast leads the way in personal video
innovation, system deployments, ease-of-use and quality-of-service. The
Los Angeles-based, privately held company was founded in 1997 by veteran
live-event streaming media service provider ITVnet.
About JVC Company of America
JVC has been recognized worldwide as the leader in digital video camcorders.
The JVC line of Digital CyberCams continues to lead the industry in quality,
features and performance. JVC, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, is
a leading consumer electronics manufacturer. The company distributes a
complete line of video and audio equipment including DVD players and changers,
camcorders, VCRs, color televisions, home and portable audio equipment,
mobile entertainment and blank tapes.