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a league of their own a l lt-rset a ms n g m e d i a ar i s RICH MAVROGEANES : Founder, Chief Evangelist, and CTO “Rich has not only invented great technology but helped shape the entire industry.” —SM All-Star Nomination PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS: • Founding VBrick in 1997. • Growing through the “dot-com meltdown.” • Helping the industry grow via the MPEG Industry Forum and Internet Streaming Media Alliance. • Doing well by doing good: serving the education community. • Having a family that sticks by me. BIGGEST CHANGE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS: “Moving from purely a consumer novelty to solving real human communications problems due to increased awareness and technology maturity.“ BIGGEST CHALLENGE FACING THE INDUSTRY: “I don’t think cost is a problem anyone. The biggest problem is simplicity. We need more active dialogue about ease-of-use and broader support for nonproprietary multivendor standards.” VBrick Systems, Inc. WWW.VBRICK.COM a l lt-rset a ms n g m e d i a ar i s DOUG MCINTYRE : Editor-in-Chief “Without Doug, Flash Video might have never taken off.”—SM All-Star Nomination PROUDEST ACHIEVEMENTS: • Taking On2 Technologies from the brink of bankruptcy to being a viable company. • Signing a deal with Macromedia to put the VP6 codec as the primary video component in Flash, allowing the On2 technology to reach almost 700 million media players and Flash to compete with Microsoft Windows Media on picture quality. • Doing an M&A deal to buy the Flix encoder business. • Initiating partnership with XM Satellite for rear-seat entertainment video. • Initiating partnership with Texas Instruments to put On2 decoder software on digital signal processors. BIGGEST CHALLENGE FACING THE INDUSTRY: “While some TV and other high-end video content carries commercials, the great majority of video online does not have any business model to sustain it. If one does not emerge, the amount of streaming and downloaded video could actually start to shrink because costs cannot be offset by income.” 24/7 Wall St. WWW.247WALLST.COM 74 STREAMING MEDIA April/May 2008 WWW.VBRICK.COM off.SM WWW.247WALLST.COM

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Streaming Media - April/May 2008 Table of Contents Beyond the Bottom Line Technology and Business Trends by the Numbers (Not So) Instant Karma MSN Autos Revs Up Video Production Dow Finds the Right Streaming Chemistry Why Video Is Changing the World A Decade of StreamingMedia.com What's Your Digital Media Strategy? Blasts From the Past: A Decade (Almost) of StreamingMedia.com Headlines Analyze That A League of Their Own: Streaming Media All-Stars Where Are They Now? Wanted: Sexy HDTV That Connects to the Internet and Services All DVRs Anystream Agility Inlet Technologies Spinnaker S3000

Streaming Media - April/May 2008

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