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1999 SEPT. 21 BURSTWARE DEBUTS ON THE INTERNET Instant Video Technologies (www.burst.com) announced the debut of its enterprise-class software, Burstware, on the internet. Burstware will be widely available for internet applications for all of IVT’s existing customers and partners. Burstware delivers high-quality, jitter-free video and CD-quality audio across any IP-based network. According to IVT chairman, president, and CEO Richard Lang, “Whenever the network pipe is bigger than the encoding rate, Burstware can be utilized as the media delivery mechanism.” 2000 JAN. 6 NIELSEN//NETRATINGS ANNOUNCES TOP INTERNET MEDIA PLAYERS IN NOVEMBER Measurement service Nielsen//NetRatings announced that the RealPlayer topped its November usage data for the top internet media players. RealPlayer garnered the majority of the usage with a reach of 12.1% of the active internet universe. Apple’s Quick Time had a 7.4% reach of active internet users, and Microsoft’s Windows Media Player held a reach of 3.2%. In raw numbers that comes out to 8,973,331 for RealPlayer users, 5,461,303 for QuickTime, and 2,376,191 for Windows Media. JAN. 12 INTERNET RESEARCH GROUP RELEASES CONTENT DELIVERY REPORT Internet Research Group announced it has released its new 2000 Content Delivery & Distribution Report. It focuses on companies like Akamai, Digital Island/Sandpiper, Mirror Image Internet, and SkyCache, and why they are becoming more important, especially in light of AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner. The report says that the market for content delivery products and services will reach $6 billion by 2004. JAN. 20 USA VIDEO INTERACTIVE WANTS TO BROADCAST NETWORK TV OVER THE NET USA Video Interactive announced it has signed a six-figure contract with Inetcable.com (www.inetcable.com) to serve as a technology partner in broadcasting network television signals over the internet. Live TV broadcast signals will be routed to USA Video Interactive’s “live” encoding engines and compressed with USA Video Interactive’s Wavelet compression technique. The signal will then be broadcast via Inetcable.com’s satellite distribution system. JAN. 20 MOVIE AND BROADCASTING COMPANIES TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ICRAVETV It seemed so simple at first. The idea was to webcast broadcast television programming over the internet. The Toronto webcaster iCraveTV was taking the feeds of stations like NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, FOX, and the WB, as well as some Canadian stations, and putting them online for anyone to tune in. But iCraveTV’s webcasting days may be over. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said it was taking legal action to stop the “theft and unauthorized performances of U.S. copyrighted films and television.” Ten motion picture and three broadcasting companies today filed a complaint against iCraveTV. It charges that iCraveTV is responsible for “one of the largest and most brazen thefts of intellectual property ever committed in the United States.” —JA JAN. 27 CLINTON’S STATE OF THE UNION TO BE WEBCAST For those stuck at the office without a TV, a few sites offer an alternative for 48 STREAMING MEDIA April/May 2008 http://www.burst.com http://Inetcable.com http://www.inetcable.com http://www.netstairs.com

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