Integrated Online Service Will Allow Media Companies to Prepare Streaming Video for over 43 Million Blu-ray Players

New York, NY / San Francisco, CA – 3 January 2010 – Panvidea, the leading cloud-based enterprise solution for cross-platform content preparation and distribution, and Related Content Database (RCDb), a leading provider of metadata software solutions and data services for content owners and network operators, today announced a joint solution for cloud-based preparation of Blu-ray™ streaming video for the global installed base of 43 million internet-connected Blu-Ray players.

The joint solution unites Panvidea’s cloud-based media processing tools with RCDb’s industry leading Blu-ray software into a one-stop solution for professional BD-Live™ content preparation. The solution is especially designed to process large libraries of content into the streaming Blu-ray format in a short, economical period of time. Media companies are able to send their content directly to Panvidea in any standard professional format and Panvidea will encode and prepare the content, optimized for RCDb powered Blu-ray streaming delivery.

The solution combines Panvidea’s on-demand and highly scalable post-production and video encoding engine with RCDb’s Blu-ray content preparation tools. Panvidea’s integrated online dashboard allows customers to manage the entire digital media distribution workflow from ingestion through delivery. Panvidea already powers the digital video processing workflows of leading media companies including A&E Television Network, FOX Broadcasting Company, and Getty Images. RCDb software powers Blu-ray disc products from leading Hollywood studios and network operators.

“It is my pleasure to announce that Panvidea’s customers will now be able to natively process streaming Blu-ray content and deliver it directly to CDN partners for OTT adaptive streaming,” said Chris Cali, Co-founder and CEO of Panvidea. “This partnership provides the most cost-effective means for content owners to process their libraries for delivery to any internet connected Blu-ray player worldwide. RCDb is the industry standard when it comes to Blu-ray streaming and this partnership will help our customers increase their digital media revenue through a fast growing global platform.”

RCDb’s licensable Blu-ray disc software platform enables a complete content owner or operator-branded streaming Blu-ray service.  The software platform supports AACS encrypted delivery of SD and HD adaptive streaming, and other virtual STB features including content catalog browsing, account linking, and analytics.

“Our customers want a fast, high quality, enterprise class solution that extends their VOD offering to the global Blu-ray platform”, said Zane Vella, CEO of Related Content Database. “Panvidea’s cloud-based media processing engine promises to get them there faster and at lower cost, and with some of the highest quality encodes we’ve ever seen.”

The new joint offering is available immediately.

To view a demonstration of the joint solution, contact Panvidea at 212-967-9613 or RCDb at (415) 552-1552 x721.

About Panvidea:

Panvidea is a global leader in the preparation, processing and distribution of professional entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in Spring 2010 with co-founder Chris Cali as CEO, to become Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution. For more information visit http://www.panvidea.com/

About RCDb:

Related Content Database (RCDb) provides communication software solutions and data services to Hollywood studios, network operators, and consumer electronics manufacturers. The RCDb software platform enables rapid integration and deployment a wide range of public and private web services to managed network set-top boxes, connected TVs, and Blu-ray discs and players. The RCDb database provides time-based metadata and services to enable monetization of digital video across multiple distribution platforms. The company also provides customer support and professional services, including development, integration, and training. RCDb Inc. has offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. For more information visit http://www.rcdb.net/

Press enquiries:

Chris Cali
Panvidea, Inc.
ccali at Panvidea dot com
212-967-9613
http://www.panvidea.com/

Hervé Utheza
Related Content Database, Inc.
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415-552-1552 x702

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New York – December 20, 2010 – Panvidea, the only enterprise-ready cloud-based solution for connecting any content with any platform and device, has today announced comprehensive support for Softel’s industry-standard Swift vTX caption and subtitle transcoding software. Swift vTX enables the automatic insertion, extraction, and transcoding of subtitles, captions and other ancillary data. By adding this tool to its already extensive list of professional codecs and post-production tools, Panvidea announced that it now provides leading broadcasters and advertisers with a high speed, instantly scalable method for inserting captions and subtitles into broadcast video. In the longer run, the partnership also provides a solution for broadcasters seeking to prepare their content to meet emerging federal standards for mandatory closed captioning of web videos.

The solution also allows customers to extract captions from an existing source file and re-encode them into the new, transcoded output file for distribution. The entire workflow is conducted as an automated process in the cloud using the Panvidea::Distribute solution, which combines a lightning fast post-production and video encoding engine with an integrated online dashboard to manage the entire digital media publishing and ad distribution workflow from digitization through delivery.

The need for a fast and scalable captioning solution for broadcast video has never been greater. Captions are mandated for broadcast content and are an extremely time sensitive part of any broadcast workflow. In the United States, the recent 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act will soon extend this mandate to caption the majority of previously broadcasted online videos. Panvidea’s partnership with Softel delivers a pioneering and world first solution that provides instant and scalable caption insertion for both traditional broadcast and online video.

Softel is a global supplier of leading edge subtitling & captioning solutions. With blue-chip captioning houses using Softel’s solutions, more captions are created on Softel’s Swift Create workstation than all others combined. Softel’s Swift vTX software delivers faster-than-real-time, automated, file-based processing with seamless integration into today’s video provisioning workflows and ‘at a glance’ management.

According to Chris Cali, CEO and co-founder of Panvidea: “This is a very important deal for us. It allows us to provide our major broadcast and advertising clients with immediate access to the same industry-standard captioning technology currently used by some of the world’s leading content companies including the BBC, Comcast Entertainment Networks, ESPN, Fox, HBO and Turner. Our partnership with Softel ensures that content can be enjoyed by all audiences anywhere in the world on the widest range of media including broadcast and DVD, as well as emerging web and mobile standards.”

“This partnership demonstrates just how flexible and future proof Softel’s Swift vTX transcoding system really is,” explained Sam Pemberton, Softel’s CEO. “We are proud to partner with Panvidea to support broadcasters across the world in reducing their time to market to deliver cost effective “TV anywhere,” regardless of the target platform, and in a multitude of formats. We envision the cloud-based approach to grow over time and are delighted to work with Panvidea who have a profound understanding of this exciting emerging space.”

This move enhances Panvidea’s industry leading video processing and distribution tools for the professional content community and builds on the enhanced broadcast-ready feature set that is already used by major media clients including A&E Television Networks, Fox Broadcasting Company and Getty Images.  Panvidea eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for both internal use and external digital distribution.

For more information, please contact Panvidea at 212-967-9613.

About Panvidea:

Panvidea is the only enterprise-ready cloud-based solution for connecting any content with any platform and device. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in spring 2010 with co-founder Chris Cali as CEO, to become Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution. For more information visit http://www.panvidea.com/.

About Softel:

Softel is a global leader in key TV and video technologies including subtitling and captioning, interactive TV, MPEG stream processing and multiplexing, opt and ad insertion cuing, and Teletext, delivered through a full range of products, professional services and bespoke development. Based in Pangbourne, near Reading in Berkshire, England, Softel also owns Softel-USA LLC, which focuses entirely on the Americas from its metro New York location. The company also has an impressive network of partners worldwide. With almost three decades of broadcast experience, Softel has built a customer list that encompasses prestigious ‘blue chip’ broadcasters and major post production facilities, as well as freelancers and smaller facilities. For more information, please visit: http://www.softelgroup.com/

Press enquiries:

Doug Heise, dheise@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8618

Integrated Toolset Cuts Costs by Automating Common Spot Customization and Distribution Tasks

New York, NY – September 21, 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in technology-enabled digital media services, has announced the immediate release of Panvidea for Direct Response Advertisers, a scalable online service designed to meet the unique media processing requirements of the DRTV industry. Its new tools, built on top of Panvidea’s flagship video processing engine, are designed to provide immediate, on-demand access to a wide range of advertising services including spot customization, duplication and distribution.

Panvidea for Direct Response Advertisers provides an integrated online dashboard that automates a broad range of TV spot customization and distribution tasks. Direct Response producers can use it to manage global advertising campaigns, store and manage DR spots as digital files, dynamically configure spots for distribution, insert close captioning, enable popular spot tracking methods, or insert custom voiceovers.

Media buyers can use it to review ads and place orders for distribution. Panvidea automatically customizes the spot for every station and digitally delivers the spots via its distribution partners. Finally, Panvidea helps producers and buyers track spot delivery and manage billing.

All of this is built on the same core media processing engine that has already attracted the attention of major broadcast and media clients including A&E Television Networks, FOX Broadcasting Company and Getty Images.

“The traditional methods for customizing and preparing DRTV spots for distribution have been in place forever,” said Chris Cali, CEO and co-founder of Panvidea. “Workflows are primarily manual and tape-based. Producers and media buyers are wasting thousands of dollars on spot duplication and customization services from duplication houses. These processes are costly, slow and inefficient. Panvidea solves these problems by automating and digitizing the entire process, allowing DR producers and media buyers to cut their costs, streamline operations, reduce risk, speed time to market and test new spots more effectively.”

Panvidea for Direct Response Advertisers is available today and will be demonstrated from September 21-23 at the 2010 ERA D2C Convention. To schedule an appointment or demonstration, please call 212-967-9613.

For more information please visit: http://www.panvidea.com/

About Panvidea:

Panvidea is a global leader in technology-enabled digital media services. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in Spring 2010 as Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution. For more information, visit http://www.panvidea.com/

Press enquiries:

Doug Heise, dheise@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8618

Broadcast Interactive Media Selects Panvidea to Encode and Distribute Local Video News and User Generated Content

Panvidea’s Cloud Service Enables Local Broadcasters to More Efficiently Upload, Transcode and Publish Video News and Metadata

New York – 31^st August 2010 – Panvidea™, a global leader in on-demand video encoding, preparation, processing and distribution for entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform, has today announced that Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) has selected Panvidea’s Cloud-based video processing solution to power an enhanced version of the BIMVid™ video content management system as well as the YouNews™ social media platform.

BIM is the leading provider of locally-focused content, advertising and technical solutions for television, newspaper and radio websites. With the BIMVid system, clients can publish video anywhere with a web connection, easily edit clips and select a specific frame to display as the story image, and track all content and video assets. YouNews, BIM’s social media platform, allows community members to upload videos, photos and stories to local media websites for use on-air or for cross-targeting elsewhere online. The platform delivers revenue opportunities, local and national contesting, national content exchange, plus content moderation.

BIM and its customers will be able to benefit from a broadcast-ready feature set that has already attracted the attention of major clients including A&E Television Networks, Fox Broadcasting Company and Getty Images. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, cloud-based solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device.
 
The combined solutions from BIM and Panvidea will allow local broadcasters and individual community members to upload local video content from any location via integrated applications or a standard web-based interface. The system will automatically transform the content to the correct publishing format and package the metadata for online distribution. The move to Panvidea promises to provide BIM’s clients and individual contributors with significantly improved performance, faster publishing time, enhanced security, and superior video quality.
 
“We looked at the market and determined that no other on-demand video processing solution supports as wide a range of professional formats, post-production operations and video workflow tools,” said Nate Leaf, Director of Business Development at Broadcast Interactive Media. “The Panvidea platform will help us reduce our costs and deliver a better service to our customers.”

“The combination of BIM’s flexible web and video content management system with Panvidea’s next generation video post production and encoding solution promises to make it faster and easier for local news providers to provide their audiences with relevant, up-to-the-minute video features,” said Chris Cali, co-founder and CEO of Panvidea. “We are proud to be a part of their solution.”

About Panvidea:

Panvidea is a global leader in the preparation, processing and distribution of professional entertainment and advertising content across any digital platform. Originally founded as mPOINT in November 2007, the company re-branded in Spring 2010 with co-founder Chris Cali as CEO, to become Panvidea. Panvidea provides the only instantly scalable, on-demand solution to encode digital media elements, manage relevant metadata, edit and transform media for multiple audiences, and supply content as digital products to any platform or device. Panvidea’s secure software service eliminates the need for professional content companies to incur significant capital expenditures or pay exorbitant hourly fees to prepare their content for internal use or external digital distribution.

About Broadcast Interactive Media:

Broadcast Interactive Media is the leading provider of locally-focused advertising, content and technical solutions for television, radio, and newspaper websites. Since acquiring TitanTV Media in February 2010, BIM’s offerings have expanded to encompass powerful data tools and management solutions. Core products are the BIMVid and TitanCast video systems, YouNews social media platform, MediaStar suite, TitanTV Guide, BIM Local Ad Network, local sales initiatives such as Healthy Living and Green, and STELA Compliance Tools. Customers include ABC, Belo Television Group, Capitol Broadcasting, CBS Television, Fisher Communications, Fox Television, Gannett Broadcasting, Hearst-Argyle, NBC LIM and Scripps-Howard. BIM is based in Madison, WI with offices in New York City, Cedar Rapids, IA and Austin, TX. Connect with BIM at http://twitter.com/bimlocal or http://twitter.com/younews.

Press enquiries:

Doug Heise, dheise@panvidea.com, +1 212-967-9613 ext. 8618