Affordable solution automates creation of online rich media presentations for live or on-demand distribution

Pictron, a leading provider of interactive media solutions to make video searchable and interactive on the Internet, today announced the release of Powercast Presenter at Streaming Media West 2006. This affordable software solution simplifies the development of online rich media presentations, enabling companies to enhance their communications with employees, customers, and shareholders through live or on-demand webcasts. "We are extremely excited to represent Pictron's new Powercast Presenter series. Pictron has developed an affordable, rich media application for the corporate and academic streamer. This breakthrough technology will allow a whole new clientele to sync their power point presentations with their streaming video," said Jeff Burgess, President of JB&A Distribution.

With Powercast Presenter, users of any skill level can easily create highly-effective rich media presentations. The solution captures any presentation in real time, instantly creating an online slide show with synchronized streaming audio and video-along with an automatically generated table of contents and searchable index. Users can easily customize webcasts to reflect their organization or department's brand identity.

Powercast Presenter automatically publishes recorded presentations to CD, DVD, or website, letting the audience view the presentation live over the Internet/Intranet or on-demand with any Web browser. Powercast Presenter supports both Microsoft and Real media formats, and even enables users to deliver multiple live streams in both formats for an even broader distribution.

"Organizations are increasingly turning to webcasts as an effective means of sharing critical information with a global audience, whether it's delivering a live broadcast of a shareholder meeting or producing on-demand sales training or product demonstrations," said Darwin Kuan, Vice President of Business Development at Pictron. "With Powercast Presenter, companies can produce high quality rich media presentations without the time-consuming, labor-intensive production that's usually involved. And priced under $1000, Powercast Presenter is available at a fraction of the cost of other solutions, enabling more organizations to benefit from the technology."

For large-scale enterprise applications, Powercast Presenter can be seamlessly integrated with the Pictron Powercast Server to streamline the entire webcast production workflow. The Powercast Server organizes and indexes rich media presentations-instantly building a rich media presentation portal with searchable content and giving viewers the tools to find essential information fast. In addition, the Pictron Media Gateway Suite can be employed to provide unparalleled rich media indexing, search, and retrieval capabilities, including scene change detection, close-captioned content search, speech recognition, and facial recognition.

Pictron is demonstrating Powercast Presenter, along with its entire Media Gateway Suite and Powercast Studio platforms, at Media Streaming West 2006 (Booth 512) held in San Jose, CA from October 31-November 2.

About Pictron:

Pictron Inc. is a leading provider of interactive media solutions to make video searchable and interactive on the Internet. Pictron's products and services are designed to power the next generation rich media applications in corporate communications, eLearning, media asset management, broadcast production, webcasting, and content-based video search. Pictron solutions have won Frost & Sullivan's Market Engineering Award for Digital Media Management.

Incorporated in 1999 and privately held, Pictron is headquartered in San Jose, California. Additional information about the company and its products is available on the Web at www.pictron.com

Powercast Presenter is a trademark of Pictron Inc. Product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Media Contact:

Pictron Inc.
Darwin Kuan
VP Business Development
Tel: 408-725-8888, ext. 101
Fax: 408-446-5552
email: darwin@pictron.com