These companies have taken NetShow content creation and authoring to new levels of power and simplicity by incorporating NetShow support directly into them. * NetShow Providers

Digital Renaissance Inc.
 190 Liberty Street
Second Floor
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6K 3L5
phone: (416) 535-4222
fax: (416) 535-1201
e-mail: info@digital-ren.com
 Product: T.A.G. Editor

Digital Renaissance Inc. designs, develops and integrates interactive new media solutions (Web, CD-ROM, ITV, Web TV, Kiosk, etc.) for some of the largest organizations in the world. T.A.G. is a hot new technology from Digital Renaissance. It stands for Temporal Annotation Generator. That's bithead-ease for saying that T.A.G. is a complete development and delivery system (a generator) for hyperlinking (annotating) time based (temporal) media. In other words, T.A.G. can take any form of media and make it interactive. The T.A.G. Editor software is the premier authoring system for time-based media (video,audio, animation) and can EASILY produce interactive applications in two Netshow formats : using VBScript or TAG universal player. Visit our TAG Product Site for more information and demos.

Ephyx Technologies
557 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94104
phone: 1-888-GO EPHYX or (415) 777-5505
fax: (415) 777-5506
e-mail: Send an e-mail messageinfo@ephyx.com
 Product: V-Active for NetShow

The one stop shop for encoding a video into ASF, synchronizing it with URL flips and other multimedia, and adding interactive hotspots.

Ephyx Technologies, a pioneer in interactive video technology, has developed V-Active for NetShow, an addition to its line of interactive digital video solutions. V-Active for NetShow is an all in one content creation tool, that includes a friendly and intuitive prompt-less user interface, for making Web pages come alive with video. V-Active for NetShow enables users to encode an AVI or QuickTime video into an ASF file and to automatically merge it with URL flips, other script commands (time based events) and other hotspot information, resulting in a complete interactive ASF file.

V-Active for NetShow is an easy-to-use graphic authoring tool that uses object tracking technology for interactive hyperlinking of NetShow movies. V-Active users can create Internet slide shows, presentations, guided tours and site walk-throughs using URL flips and time based events, or can go all the way and design fully interactive video applications by automatically defining hotspots within the video frame. V-Active enables users to link events and hotspots to any type of content: video, audio, text or web URL.

Moving objects, or "hotspots", in streamed video content can be automatically defined and linked to other ASF video/sound files, URLs, pop up text boxes or different frames in the video. V-Active for NetShow also enables the embedding of time driven events into the video. An event can be one or more of the items listed above. The hotspots are defined quickly and intuitively using V-Active's proprietary automatic tracking engine.

For more information or to download a free trial version, visit our site at http://www.ephyx.com.

MetaBridge, Inc.
 2101 Fourth Avenue
Suite 310
Seattle, WA 98121
phone: (206) 674-6000
fax: (206) 674-6001
e-mail: info@metabridge.com
 Product: NetPodium

MetaBridge®, Inc. is a pioneer in interactive broadcasting, and is releasing its first tool set netPodium™. Described as a "personal broadcasting™" tool set for the Internet, the product enables a speaker at a desktop computer to deliver a live, one-to-many presentation supported by visual slides, streaming audio or video, and interactive audience feedback. Users can see - and hear - the presentation at their desktops, thus saving the travel time and money it would take to attend an event in person. Founded by veterans in desktop and multimedia publishing, MetaBridge has been in business since 1992 providing state-of-the art Web site products and services. For more information, connect to
http://www.metabridge.com/products/netpod.asp

Midisoft Corporation
 1605 NW Sammamish Rd.
Suite 205
Issaquah, WA 98027

Sales
Phone: (800) 776-6434
BBS: (425) 391-7966
e-mail: salesinfo@midisoft.com
FAX: (425) 313-3492

Technical Support
Phone: (425) 313-3495
Fax: (425) 313-3491
e-mail: techsup@midisoft.com
 Product: Internet Media Player for NetShow

Download a FREE copy of the Internet Media Player for NetShow! It is the first player to provide quick and easy access to both Microsoft NetShow content AND Progressive Networks RealAudio content on the Internet. The player features innovative tabs to catalog the sites you like to visit--like "News", "Music", or "Sports". You can add, edit, or delete the tabs and content for each tab to customize the player to your tastes. Once customized, you don't even need to use your browser, just click on a selection and the player does the rest! The player comes with some really cool sites to get you started! Compare the Internet Media Player to the RealAudio PlayerPlus--Not only is the Internet Media Player free, but it also supports NetShow! Available for free download from
http://www.midisoft.com/html/free_software/imp_reg_ms.htm

Sonic Foundry, Inc.
 100 South Baldwin Street, Suite 204
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
phone: 1 800 57 SONIC
phone: (608) 256 3131
fax: (608) 256 7300
e-mail: sales@sonicfoundry.com
 Product: Sound Forge

Sonic Foundry is an award-winning company that specializes in digital audio editing and processing for all audio applications including: Internet, mastering, sound design and audio for video. We are committed to producing software for all Microsoft Windows platforms including Windows NT® on both Intel x86 and Alpha AXP processors. Check out our Web site
www.sonicfoundry.com for more information and demos.

Vivo Software, Inc.
 411 Waverley Oaks Road, Suite 313
Waltham, MA 02154.8414
phone: 1-800-VIVO-411
phone: (617) 899-8900
fax: (617) 899-1400
e-mail: info@vivo.com
 Product: VivoActive Producer for Microsoft NetShow

Vivo Software, Inc. is a leader in the Web video revolution, providing innovative solutions that enable people to communicate with video over the Internet. Founded in 1993 by a team of internationally-recognized experts in video and audio signal processing technology, Vivo develops and markets Internet video solutions for a range of applications over corporate intranets and the public Internet. VivoActive Producer 2.0 for Microsoft NetShow is a powerful production tool for creating high-quality, high-impact streaming audio and video in the ASF format used by NetShow. Evaluation code, information and demos are on the VivoActive Producer for NetShow Web site.

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