BroadcastDVD Broadcasts iPIX Movies

18-Apr-00

Internet Pictures Corporation declared that BroadcastDVD will incorporate iPIX Movies into its FILM-FEST publication to give viewers an interactive virtual tour of the world's best film festivals. An iPIX Movie is taken with a film or digital video camera that uses fisheye lenses to capture all 360-degrees of a scene. The final result is a streaming video in which viewers can use their mouse to choose their own perspective. For example, BroadcastDVD will be able to place an iPIX-equipped movie camera in the middle of the action and viewers will choose which star to watch independent of any other viewer, looking from floor to sky. In addition to video, computer generated graphics can be incorporated to enhance the visual impact or to add additional information. ""With iPIX Movies, we'll be the first to give DVD users an interactive moving picture experience. FILM-FEST subscribers will have a virtual ticket to the best film festivals in the world, from interactive interviews to tours and more,"" said James Volk, President and CEO of BroadcastDVD. ""This is a wonderful opportunity to get our FILM-FEST subscribers more involved, and to actually allow them to personally tailor the content we create-and this is just the beginning of what we'll be able to offer with iPIX Movies."" ""BroadcastDVD is pioneering the use of DVDs as a broadband format, and we are thrilled to help them add iPIX Movies to their selection of innovative new media content,"" said iPIX CEO Jim Phillips. ""We're expecting to see all kinds of imaginative new iPIX Movie features from BroadcastDVD."" Source: DVDInsider.com

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