Anystream(R) Agility(R) Enables Content Encoding for T-Online Premium Services; German ISP is Latest Broadband Service Provider to Automate Web Publishing for Paid Online Content Services With Agility.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- IBC -- Anystream, a developer of software products that automate the process of creating and preparing media for digital and Web-based distribution, today announced that it is the preferred encoding solution for premium video content offered by T- Online, Germany's leading Internet Service Provider.

T-Online uses a multi-node Agility Enterprise(TM) system to encode full- length movies as well as movie clips, trailers, news, sports, entertainment, music and games as part of its premium broadband online service, T-Online Vision. Unique to T-Online's offering, premium subscribers can also download marquis-name movies via a broadband DSL connection and specialized hybrid set- top boxes.

Agility supports T-Online's unique video on demand service by providing the scalability and load balancing required to encode big-screen quality movies for optimal playback via DSL connection to end user TVs and set-top boxes. For its other broadband video content, T-Online leverages Agility's workflow automation, providing automated ingest, preprocessing, batch encoding into multiple formats, and automated Web delivery with notification.

"With Anystream, we have found a competent partner with whose help we have been able to considerably automate our encoding workflow," says Dieter Engel, senior vice president product development at T-Online. "We were impressed by the flexibility, the scalability and, above all, the stability of the system. This has enabled us to significantly improve encoding efficiency."

"Premium subscription services increasingly offer an attractive revenue source for both broadband service providers and content providers," said Fady Lamaa, Anystream marketing vice president. "Technologies like Agility have enabled these business models by dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of repurposing valuable content for use over digital networks," he said.

Agility facilitates broadcast digital media workflows by eliminating analog-to-digital conversion steps in the production process. Agility automatically ingests and outputs media in leading broadcast server, editing and streaming formats for exchange between editing systems, play-to-air servers, news production systems, streaming and Web servers. Agility delivers the reliability and economies of scale required to support efficient broadcast operations, Web publishing and syndication revenue opportunities.

Anystream's Agility software also is the leading choice for Web and multiplatform publishing because it automates time-consuming, specialized processes required to repurpose broadcast-quality video for optimal online viewing. Anystream integrates Agility within the client's production system to ingest content from live, tape or digital file sources; preprocess video to adjust its color, size and composition for Web playback; encode video into different streaming formats and data rates; and deliver finished files to the Web and syndication partners around the globe.

About T-Online International AG:

With about 13.3 million registered customers (Q2-2004) in the major European markets and revenue of around EUR 1.9 billion in the 2003 financial year, T-Online International is one of the largest European Internet service providers. With 2,800 employees, the company is represented in France with the brand Club Internet, in Spain with Ya.com and in Portugal with Terravista. It is represented in Austria and Switzerland with the brand T-Online. In Germany, T-Online has one of the most frequently visited page on the Internet with the portal http://www.t-online.de/. (Nielsen//NetRatings, 06-2004).

About Anystream (IBC Stand 2.140)

Anystream software automates rich media production in environments as complex as global media companies and as basic as the presentations of general business users. Its Agility products for media professionals integrate seamlessly with existing customer workflows and automate media encoding and transcoding of streaming, broadcast and production formats. Since its formation in April 2000, Anystream has become the leading supplier of automated audio and video encoding software for the world's leading broadcasters in the U.S. and Europe, used by such well-known brands as CNN, Fox News, Sky Networks, BBC, NFL Films and the Weather Channel to convert on- air video for Internet and data network applications. Anystream's award- winning Apreso products for general business users transform static business documents into dynamic rich media communications, without requiring users to learn new skills. Anystream awards include Presentations' Magazine's Standing Ovation Award, PC Magazine's 2003 Technical Excellence Awards Finalist, COMDEX Best of Show Finalist, Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 100," and Deloitte & Touche's "Fast 50." Anystream, Inc. is funded by SCP Private Equity Partners, Falcon Private Equity L.P. and Citigroup Investments, Inc. Anystream is based in Sterling, VA.

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CONTACT: Darian Germain of Anystream, +1-703-948-3063, or dgermain@anystream.com

Web site: http://www.anystream.com/ http://www.t-online.de/