DAVE.TV, an IPTVpioneer and leader in digital entertainment distribution teaming up withBeyond Media, developer of an innovative new BeyondCast™ live streamingtechnology, today announced the live streaming premier of Adrian Grenier'scritically acclaimed short film, "Euthanasia." The production team for thefilm, including Adrian Grenier from HBO's hit show "Entourage" and theWahlbergs, a well-known Hollywood family of producers, directors, actorsand writers, are among the big names headlining the introduction of the newDAVE.TV and Beyond Media IPTV service, powered by Beyond Media'sBeyondCast™. The cutting-edge service allows directors, actors,producers, and writers in the film industry to utilize the freedom of theinternet and directly reach customers by combining streaming gridtechnology and end-to-end IPTV solutions to deliver high-quality picture atlow bandwidth to the masses.
DAVE.TV and Beyond Media will preview the short film via the new IPTVservice at the Digital Hollywood Conference on March 29, 2006 at anexclusive Red Carpet, invitation-only after-party held next door at the LeMerigot Hotel.
"Independent filmmakers now have the ability to deliver qualityentertainment to the masses, cost-effectively and efficiently with the helpof DAVE.TV and Beyond Media," said Adrian Grenier.
"There is finally a new option for content producers to get their contentout to a large audience without having to deal with the standarddistribution methods," says Jimmy Wahlberg. "Producers and directors cannow bypass traditional distribution outlets and deliver their contentdirectly to consumers."
DAVE.TV delivers the world's first Cross-Platform Digital DeliveryEcosystem delivering IPTV and Video over IP content to TVs, PCs, portableand mobile devices. DAVE.TV's platform allows consumers to get theircontent anytime, anyplace and on any device. Beyond Media's BeyondCast™system delivers linear and on-demand streaming IPTV over a proprietarypatent-pending distributed grid architecture which dramatically lowersbandwidth costs by up to 97%, while greatly improving content deliveryperformance and efficiency. The new IPTV service combines DAVE.TV'send-to-end IPTV solution platform with Beyond Media's BeyondCast™ gridstreaming technology to create a true IPTV environment that can deliverDVD-quality streams at an unheard of bandwidth of under 1MBps, unlike mostsolutions requiring 4MBps or more. Furthermore, the combined solution candeliver HDTV-quality streams in under 4MBps, versus the typical 12MBps. Thetechnologies will be on display at Loews Santa Monica (Booth #5) at theDigital Hollywood Conference on March 28 - 30, 2006.
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"The combined DAVE.TV/Beyond Media content delivery system will now bringIPTV to the masses as it runs on existing broadband infrastructure andbandwidth," says Rex Wong, CEO of DAVE.TV. "At only 1MBps bandwidthrequirement, we can deliver IPTV to over 80% of all current U.S. broadbandcustomers without the need to install expensive fiber or other nextgeneration wiring."
"Beyond Media with BeyondCast™ is allowing us to intelligently harnessthe power of the internet by changing the landscape of how TV is deliveredover IP and the Internet," says Tim Hogan, President and founder of BeyondMedia. "Together with DAVE.TV, the combined IPTV platform will greatlyshorten the market time window for IPTV deployments worldwide. The freedomof the internet will create new outlets for digital content creators andendless possibilities to stream live content."
The IPTV service will be available for PCs on the free downloadable DAVE.TVMedia Center (DMC) software, available on www.dave.tv. The service willalso soon be available on DAVE.TV XPORT set-top boxes, sold from variousservice provider partners. The BeyondCast™-powered DAVE.TV service willfeature the first cross-platform P2P grid architecture that resides on aset-top box as well as a PC client utilizing the power of an array ofalways-on DAVE.TV XPORT set-top boxes to create a virtual content deliverynetwork.
The new IPTV Service will be available late April.
About DAVE.TV
DAVE.TV takes television and entertainment delivery into the new digitalera and places Internet Broadcasting in the hands of the consumer using thefree DAVE Media Center (DMC™) software. DMC™ is an intuitive andeasy-to-use PC application allowing consumers to personalizehow-what-where-when they want their digital entertainment deliveredincluding videos, music, movies, photographs and much more. DAVE.TVcaptures local, national, and international entertainment in the form ofmusic, videos, news, sports, games, and more with over 100 channels ofcontent. Content is broadcast through a virtual broadcast network via theDAVE Media Center™ (DMC™) software and all content is protected usingDigital Rights Management (DRM). For more information please visitwww.dave.tv.
About Beyond Media
Beyond Media has developed a revolutionary real-time transport protocolproviding the ability to broadcast live streaming audio and video "IPTV"with enhanced picture quality and scalability while significantly reducingdistribution infrastructure requirements and costs. This revolutionarydistribution technology, BeyondCast™, offers the unique ability tobroadcast live video and audio streams over existing Internet architecturethrough the use of our proprietary streaming and transport technologies.Beyond Media also has the ability to produce and distribute IPTVproductions from live venues for concerts, sporting events, scheduled liveprogramming, and special events regardless of geographic location via aseparate company Beyond Media Content. For more information please visitwww.beyondmedia.com.
Contact:Jackie LacambraTERPIN COMMUNICATIONS(310) 821-6100 X108jackie@terpin.com
SOURCE: DAVE.TV