Sonic Foundry Unveils Mediasite 5.0, the Next Generation Lecture Capture Platform for Higher Education

Las Vegas, Nev. - (EduComm booth #20, InfoComm booth #N5560) June 19, 2008 - Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq SOFO), the recognized market leader for lecture capture, today introduced Mediasite 5.0, its next-gen rich media communication and knowledge management platform for higher education, from the show floor at EduComm 2008. Complementing this release are the latest models in its family of award-winning Mediasite Recorders.

Mediasite 5.0 enhances student playback of course material and strengthens faculty and administration's management of recorded content. Mediasite 5.0 includes nearly 100 enhancements and new capabilities such as:

• All new Mediasite Players including an on-slide magnifier to see close-up detail in any portion of a presented graphic
• An updated Mediasite Catalog with flexible content organization hierarchies and RSS feeds allowing authorized users to subscribe to content of interest
• Revamped tracking and reporting capabilities with access to more viewing statistics and graphics of key viewing trends 
• vCal support for Mediasite presentation invitations, allowing recipients to add the event to their Outlook calendar with a single click
• Ability for users to forward clips to other authorized users while watching a presentation

Customers who received a sneak-peek of Mediasite 5.0 at UNLEASH 2008, the annual Mediasite User Conference, are anticipating an even greater user experience coupled with increased content flexibility and control. "We are looking forward to deploying Mediasite 5.0. It is the single-source platform with the proven ability to reliably scale campus wide, consistently helping us to deliver a quality product to faculty and students," said Bob Hillhouse, director of IT at the University of Tennessee. "Mediasite is an established and vital service for the University of Tennessee system. We're looking forward to what's coming next."

With the 5.0 release, Sonic Foundry also announces the latest Mediasite RL and ML Recorders for automated rich media lecture capture. Features include DVI support for image capture, the ability to pause live or on-demand recordings to accommodate breaks, high motion video support for presentation images, video center-cut editing capabilities, widescreen image capture and a smaller rack-mount requirement for the RL Recorder.

"Student expectations for online course content - be it distance learning or blended, live or on-demand - are growing. With Mediasite 5.0, Sonic Foundry has shown that we're not only responding to those expectations, we're anticipating them by setting the standard for the next generation lecture capture platform," said Rimas Buinevicius, chairman and CEO of Sonic Foundry. "We are excited to introduce these enhancements to our customers in higher education and look forward to continuing to grow our position as the innovative leader in this market."

Since its introduction in 2003, Sonic Foundry's Mediasite has set the standard as a transformational communication medium for delivering and sharing knowledge. Mediasite's patented lecture capture technology and content management platform automate the recording, delivery, management, and search of multimedia presentations (combining audio, video and accompanying graphics) for live or on-demand viewing. With upwards of 600 higher education customers, Sonic Foundry is dedicated to advancing the convergence of technology and elearning.

Mediasite 5.0 will be available late summer, with the new Mediasite Recorders available mid-July.