Sonic Foundry Advances Rich Media Communications With Next Generation of Mediasite Live

Sonic Foundry[R] Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), a leading rich media solutions company, today announced a new architecture, higher performance and significant enhancements to its award-winning Mediasite Live TM rich media presentation system that begins shipping today. Mediasite Live is a complete real-time, rich media communications system that provides a capture appliance integrated with publishing server software for creating, managing and viewing high-quality, rich media over the Web, or burned to CD. As a true plug-and-play system, Mediasite Live automatically captures, synchronizes, streams and archives graphically rich online presentations in real-time, thereby eliminating the need for any special preparation, costly production or complex authoring. This new version offers a significant advancement over other rich media presentation and Webcasting solutions based on more than a year of follow-on direct customer feedback. Mediasite Live has been steadily gaining traction among leading organizations in the education, corporate, healthcare and government markets because of the way it seamlessly streamlines and simplifies the entire workflow for graphically-rich online presentations (see Sonic Foundry's Customer Base Grows as Mediasite Live Makes its Impact in the Enterprise) Highlights of the new capabilities include:

  • Superb high-resolution graphics - presenters can choose to show photos, illustrations, complex graphics and technical drawings without necessitating complex or time- consuming conversion processes. Documents are captured in their native high-resolution form through Mediasite Live's exclusive RGB capability, vastly improving the viewing experience.
  • Flexible delivery - presentations can be streamed live or played on-demand over the Web to Windows and now Macintosh PCs, downloaded to users' machines for local playback, or to portable media such as CDs, DVDs and Flash memory. No special client software is necessary.
  • Automated operation - highlights include auto-indexing of images, auto-publish of images, auto-publish point creation for unicast and multicast delivery, auto-capture and posting of media assets for on-demand access to reduce time and expense.
  • Dynamic viewing experience - supports multiple viewer layouts that can be completely customized. Now a single presentation also can be tailored for different groups of end users.
  • Web Catalogs - automatically builds and transfers content to Web pages for organizing and browsing content from user-specified categories.
  • Multiple Configurations - capture appliances are available for fixed and mobile applications providing flexibility to deploy wherever necessary.
  • Optimized for Windows Media 9 technologies - offers higher quality with better compression along with enhanced streaming capabilities for an improved viewer experience.
  • A new database engine combined with a powerful software platform based on Microsoft .net - improves performance, scalability and management of content and users across the system. "Mediasite Live eliminates all the pre- and post-production elements that generally drive organizations away from using rich media," explained James Dias, vice president marketing and sales of Sonic Foundry. "This newest offering continues to break new ground by providing unprecedented levels of performance, ease-of-use and versatility at a price that will expand the delivery of one-to-many Web-based communications." Mediasite Live is available for an MSRP of $25,000 through a national group of audio/visual system integrators and network VARs. The product comes in two configurations: rack-mount and mobile. For more information visit www.sonicfoundry.com or call 877.783.7987.

    • About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
    Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is the trusted market leader for enterprise webcasting solutions, providing video content management and distribution for education, business and government. Powered by the patented Mediasite webcasting platform and webcast services of Mediasite Events, the company empowers people to advance how they share knowledge online, using video webcasts to bridge time and distance, enhance learning outcomes and improve performance.

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