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The "Film Scouts Newsreels" cybercast can be seen at the rock.com
network broadcast page. "Film Scouts Newsreels" will have
four episodes in the series. They will be broadcast over the Internet using
PixelFlix, a revolutionary new audio/video streaming technology developed
by Thinking Pictures. PixelFlix is a helper-app-free video-streaming application
that runs under Netscape 2.x+ and Microsoft Explorer 4.0b2+. It is being
streamed over the Net using Sun servers and Icon's nationwide ATM network.
Thinking Pictures is an MIT Media Lab Interactive Cinema spin-off. Founded
in 1993, Thinking Pictures has a long history of technology and new media
innovation. An early cybercasting pioneer, Thinking Pictures produced the
Rolling Stones "Voodoo Lounge" Mbone multicast, the first live
concert ever broadcast over the Internet. Currently, Thinking Pictures is
building rock.com, an interactive music/film culture content aggregation
network that partners with and distributes content from its affiliate partners.
As a premiere systems integrator for the entertainment and media industries,
Thinking Pictures is developing a suite of interactive content applications,
including CinemaServer, MovieCast, and Thinking Nets. Each of these products
focuses on the creation, database management, and interactive distribution
of customized multimedia content to the end-user. For more information about
Thinking Pictures' technologies or joining the rock.com network, see http://www.thinkpix.com
or call/email Gordon Gould (212-989-3950/ gordon@thinkpix.com).
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