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Inlet Technologies, the leader in innovative solutions for digital media preparation, announced today that Universal Sports has selected its Spinnaker™ and Armada™ solutions to power UniversalSports.com’s live and on-demand coverage of world-class sports.

Universal Sports serves as the preeminent multiplatform destination for Olympic and lifestyle sports programming, offering more than 1,000 live events and 7,000 hours of annual original event programming. UniversalSports.com delivers more than 100,000 hours of programming content with dedicated, sport-specific “channels,” including Skiing, Rowing, Swimming, and Cycling, to give fans a centralized, convenient, consistent place to go for event video, video highlights, breaking news, and features. Universal Sports is following a growing trend in the sports industry by complementing traditional broadcasts with unprecedented online access.

“We’re dedicated to delivering our fans and viewers at UniversalSports.com the highest quality video presentation of our world-class sporting events,” said Carlos more

Inlet Technologies, a leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, has been selected to provide Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Live Smooth Streaming online video for NBC Universal during the media company’s coverage of the XXI Olympic Winter Games from Vancouver, February 12-28. The announcement was made today by Perkins Miller, senior vice president, digital media, NBC Olympics; Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Platform at Microsoft Corp.; and John Bishop, senior vice president of strategy and business development, Inlet Technologies.

Inlet’s SpinnakerTM family of encoding solutions is uniquely suited for live sports as it provides broadcast-quality streams over the Internet to multiple screens and devices. With its built-in support for adaptive streaming protocols, including IIS Live Smooth Streaming, Spinnaker generates high-quality streams that enhance online viewing of live sports action. For NBC’s coverage of the more

Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is helping to enable HTTP adaptive streaming of content to the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® Touch® for some of the most innovative broadcasters, entertainment and retail enterprises, and sports organizations around the globe.

Inlet recently teamed with Akamai Technologies to power Turner Sports’ live streaming of the 91st PGA Championship to iPhone and iPod Touch users. Building on the success of 3.4 million video streams across the Turner Sports online golf portfolio during the PGA Championship, video streaming of the FedExCup championship is ramping up. Live coverage of key holes at all four tournaments leading up to the crowning of the champion will be available through the iPhone PGA App, in addition to the online component. In early August, Inlet and Akamai also worked together to help Apple deliver the first more

(IBC, Booth # 4.A59 and IP513) – Edgeware AB and Inlet Technologies today announced interoperability between Edgeware’s Web TV servers and Inlet’s SpinnakerTM live streaming appliance for the delivery of Microsoft® Smooth Streaming and Apple Live HTTP Streaming video over the Internet.

To compete for advertising dollars against traditional broadcast television, Web TV and video service providers need to deliver high quality, interactive viewing experiences to multiple devices – not just PCs and Macs but HD televisions, mobile phones and new Internet connected devices. Delivering these so called “360o Content Experiences” requires video encoding and delivery techniques that not only adapt to the decoding capabilities of the device but also varying levels of congestion in the network. Adaptive streaming does exactly this, dynamically adjusting the bit rate based on these parameters. Microsoft® Smooth Streaming and Apple Live HTTP Streaming are two variants that use standard Internet protocols for delivery, more

Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is further enhancing its entire product family, including its Spinnaker live streaming appliances, Fathom high-performance encoding platform and Armada automated workflow management system, to better meet the growing demand for iPhone streaming, adaptive bitrate streaming and other key industry innovations. Additions include integration of Segmenter software, automated VOD asset creation and support for Microsoft’s Playready DRM technology. Inlet will showcase these product enhancements at IBC 2009, in the IPTV Zone, booth IP513.

At the forefront of enabling live video to the Apple® iPhone™, Inlet augments its leadership role with a number of iPhone-centric enhancements. Integration of Segmenter software allows for iPhone-ready streams to be automatically created, eliminating the need for additional hardware or segmentation software to deliver video natively on any iPhone through Safari or an iPhone application, and making more

DBee, the French leader in live rich-media production and an Inlet Technologies SpinnakerTM encoder integrator, announced today that its Livecast rich-media software suite has been integrated with the Spinnaker encoder family. This has been achieved through the Spinnaker SOAP API and allows the Livecast Command Center software to manage the Spinnaker S5000/7000 as well as the S80 audio-only models, either in Windows Media or Flash formats, providing an enhanced rich-media service capability for corporate clients.

DBee’s Livecast Command Center uses an advanced script injection (for Windows Media) and live cue-point-creation (for Flash), and with this new remote control capability Spinnakers can be fully integrated as the primary encoders into a live encoding workflow. Standard software encoders are used as backup - thus maximising investments and leveraging any installed base.

Rich-media corporate services can now be achieved with this combination of Livecast software and Spinnaker encoders, from the simplest more

Inlet Technologies, the leader in live streaming and video-on-demand solutions for digital media, announced today it is powering the live online streaming of many of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, establishing the company as the go-to provider of encoding solutions to enable sports-related content on the web.

Inlet has powered the streaming of some of the world’s most widely-viewed sports events such as the Roland Garros French International and The Championships, Wimbledon tennis tournaments, the A1GP and Indy 500 motor races, Major League Baseball, the NCAA Division I Men’s College Basketball Tournament (a.k.a. March Madness), Italian FIFA Confederations Cup soccer matches, as well as the recent Tour de France cycling race.

Inlet also powered the streaming of the World Swimming Championships, the World Championships in Athletics, and 91st PGA Championship golf tournament to Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® touch® more

Live, 24-Hour-a-Day Interactive Lifestyle Network Now Available on iPhone and iPod Touch

New App Creates e-Commerce’s First Live-Video 3-Screen Experience—TV; Web; Mobile—and

Enables Users to Take HSN on the Go, with Streaming Live Video and Host of Features

ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA [August 17, 2009] – HSN (hsn.com), the leading interactive lifestyle network and retail destination, announces today the launch of a dynamic new application (“app”) for the Apple® iPhone™ and iPod® touch®. The 45 million subscribers to the devices who download the HSN Shop App now have the ability to view HSN programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, throughout the US. The launch creates the e-commerce industry’s first live-video “3-screen experience,” enabling consumers to browse and shop the network’s 35,000-plus array of products from home or on the go.

All the engaging highlights that HSN and hsn.com users enjoy are packed into more

Inlet Technologies, a leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today it has partnered with iStreamPlanet®, provider of digital media strategy, services, and software applications, to enable live streaming of major events, which have included the June 21st broadcast of CTV’s 2009 MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs) and NBC’s coverage of The Championships, Wimbledon.

The MMVAs marked a technological milestone, as the event was the first live Canadian Smooth Streaming showcase. MuchMusic, a division of CTV Limited, provided viewers with a unique, multi-camera online experience of the MMVA Backstage Live experience using the Microsoft Silverlight browser plug-in. Thanks to Inlet’s SpinnakerTM family of live streaming appliances, viewers were treated to a “living room” experience over the Web with stunning HD picture quality, ’instant on’ and more

Inlet Technologies, the leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today that its SpinnakerTM family of award-winning streaming appliances now powers Norway’s TV 2 premium online television service. TV 2 is Norway’s largest commercial broadcaster and recently launched its premium services in high definition (HD) with both broadcast and online components. The premium HD service will support major sports events, such as the Tour de France, but also enable the delivery of blockbuster movies and shows to the web user.

Thanks to Inlet Technologies’ live streaming SpinnakerTM 7000 encoders and Microsoft® Smooth Streaming technology, web viewers will be able to enjoy the live HD streams and benefit from DVR capabilities (such as pause and rewind), with no stuttering, buffering or other interruptions to their viewing experience. Smooth Streaming uses the standard downloading of HTTP files for easy more