PRESS RELEASE
AXONIX INTRODUCES GIGABIT VidEO-ON-DEMAND SERVER
The world’s first gigabit video server appliance to record, store and stream both broadcast TV shows and DVD/VHS videos.
July 1st, 2003 – Information technology manufacturing pioneer, Axonix Corporation has begun shipping the world’s first Gigabit Video-On-Demand Server that records, stores and streams VHS/DVD videos and Television shows from cable, satellite or locally broadcasted TV.
SuperView ™ is now available with a Gigabit Ethernet interface and comes equipped with all the necessary software and hardware to share hundreds of hours of full motion, full screen videos over any LAN/Internet network using a standard Web browser.
Also available is a new TV Tuner feature that allows users to schedule the recording of any televised video for later “On-Demand” viewing. In addition to recorded VHS and DVD videos, users can now view any televised video including TV shows, lectures, training classes, sales presentations, or other videos when it is most convenient – even from home via the Internet.
Axonix cites no significant competition as other video servers cost more than 5 times SuperView’s $3,195 retail price and require multiple hardware components plus special software to be loaded on every client computer. In addition to it’s low price the most revolutionary benefit of the SuperView is the video quality to bandwidth ratio it offers. SuperView uses MPEG4 class compression technology that delivers superior video quality at one-tenth the required bandwidth of competitive MPEG2 only systems allowing it to be used on any local or Internet network. SuperView now also supports the encoding, storing and sharing of MPEG2 videos.
SuperView moves video training and education ‘from the VCR to the computer network’. SuperView enables end users to easily record, store and share hundreds of full-screen, full-motion videos on a LAN, WAN or the Internet. Up to 600 hundred hours of VHS quality videos can be played on-demand by hundreds of simultaneous users using only a Web browser and Microsoft’s® Media Player™. SuperView is the size of a VCR and sets up in minutes on any Ethernet network including 10/100MBit and Gigabit per second networks.
The company has experienced broad demand for SuperView from educational institutions, libraries, corporate and military training centers, hospitals, hotels and Web video streaming service companies. Applications include video-on-demand libraries, training and presentation delivery systems, pay-per-view Internet movies, recording and sharing live broadcast TV shows, hotel and hospital movie-on-demand delivery systems, Web videoconference recording and sharing, video surveillance security systems and home movie jukeboxes.
Using its friendly Web browser administration interface, simply record VHS videotapes, DVD discs or live video onto the SuperView. Playback is performed using the same browser interface or you may create your own Web interface; no special software is required. Anyone with a standard Web browser can watch a video, movie or lecture that was either previously recorded or being recorded live, anytime - day or night. SuperView can also import MPEG, AVI, QuickTime and other digital video files for storage and sharing. Video encoding and viewing quality are adjustable for any available network bandwidth. Only 192Kbps is needed for full motion, full screen quality.
SuperView’s compelling full screen, full motion video enhances productivity and retention with instant stop, rewind, pause and fast-forward. In addition, its video capture and storage capability allows the attachment of a video camera for viewing live presentations or recording surveillance video. SuperView eliminates the need for (1) copies of videos, (2) TV sets and (3) VCR/DVD players; further reducing total cost of ownership. Spending time and money checking-out and tracking videotapes and discs is a thing of the past.
John Ashby, Director, Educational Technology stated “Saint Louis University has maintained an instructional materials collection for over 30 years, but the SuperView totally changes our distribution paradigm- more radically than VHS did in the early 1980's!”
Axonix® Corporation is a private corporation that has been delivering affordable IT solutions since 1983. Axonix pioneered SuperCD, the world’s first hard drive caching, network-attached appliance designed for sharing CD and DVD ROMs. The SuperView server is the company’s newest network appliance and is the world’s first integrated video server appliance that records, stores and delivers video content for anywhere, anytime learning.