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On2 Technologies and Digital Witness Sign Codec Agreement
Tuesday January 11, 3:25 pm ET
Pioneering Surveillance for Corporate Use
DALLAS and NEW YORK, Jan. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies, Inc., The Duck Corporation and Digital Witness LP today announce that Digital Witness has licensed On2's VP6.2 codec for its multi-location business surveillance products. The Digital Witness products allow customers to remotely acquire audio and video surveillance information from operational locations and distribute it to corporate management. The products can handle up to 16 cameras simultaneously. Digital Witness specializes in software sales to banks, restaurants and retailers and also markets to the residential market.
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"We welcome this chance to expand our reach in the surveillance market, which we believe will be one of the dominant arenas for high compression video over the next five years," said Douglas A. McIntyre, On2 Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We believe that Digital Witness's hardware and server-based surveillance software products are a perfect complement to On2's technology."
"Digital Witness is excited about integrating the VP6 codec into our application. Digital compression of video is at the core of our application and integrating the latest compression technologies from On2 allows us to remain at the cutting edge of digital video recording," according to Brent Dunn, Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Office of Digital Witness, LP.
About On2 Technologies, The Duck Corporation
On2 Technologies (Amex: ONT - News) is a leading technology firm at the forefront of video compression. The company revolutionized digital media delivery with the creation of its advanced full-motion, full-screen, TrueMotion® VP4/VP5/VP6 compression and streaming technologies. On2's TrueMotion codecs are used extensively in the video-on-demand, videoconferencing, Internet media, surveillance, and store-and-play markets. They operate with On2's own TrueCast Server and Player software, as well as third-party player and server products. On2's software is used by such leading companies as Sony, NTT, AOL, BBC, ABC News, Nullsoft, SeaChange International, China Netcom, NHK, and Nanwang Multimedia. The VP6 decoder has an installation base of millions through its inclusion in AOL 9 Media Player, Winamp 5, Viewpoint Media Player, and others. On2 licenses its software for use in set-top boxes, consumer electronics devices and wireless applications and offers high-level video encoding, customized technical support, and consulting/integration services. Located in New York City, the company has an office in Clifton Park, NY, and operations in Cambridge, UK. To contact On2 write to
sales@on2.com or visit
http://www.on2.com.
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Source: On2 Technologies, Inc.