World Media Distributors applauds merger

Issued by World Media Distributors

Johannesburg, 27 Aug 2009

World Media Distributors and Nextvision wish to congratulate TVN http://www.tvn.com/ and Avail Media http://www.availmedia.com/ on their merger to provide an integrated, end-to-end solution for content owners and service providers.

The combination creates the largest independent provider of end-to-end content aggregation, management and delivery services.

It delivers content from more than 200 content partners, including Hollywood movie studios, cable networks and independent content producers, to more than 46 million homes and 120 million consumers. Its customers are MSOs, telcos and DBS providers.

World Media Distributors

World Media Distributors specialises in outfitting ISPs with a complete system for the delivery of video-on-demand, whether streamed or downloaded, over an ADSL broadband network. World Media Distributors provides both commercial and entertainment solutions for creating, managing and delivering media services. Database development includes royalty and billing reporting as well as subscriber and set top box management. World Media Distributors products/services include content aggregation, server software, set top box software, set top boxes, encryption, and network acceleration.

Avail-TVN

Avail-TVN is the largest independent digital media services company in providing managed content aggregation services through a fully integrated, head-end infrastructure for the profitable deployment of IP video. Avail-TVN is the only company today to deliver to its affiliates a combined MPEG-4 linear IPTV, HD Overlay (MPEG-2/4) programming solution, and video on-demand (VOD) solution. The Avail Media solution includes a full content line-up of live television programming with hundreds of channels, all quality-encoded in MPEG-4, IP-encapsulated, encrypted and designed for future value-added services. The Avail-TVN platform is an open, advanced technology, offering the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing linear and on-demand content to virtually any platform today, and is extensible to support the new services of tomorrow such as triple-play, quad-play, or pure video play.

World Media Distributors LLC
Bob Pincus
27 East Napa Street
Sonoma, CA 95476, USA
Tel +1 707.939.6658
Fax +1 707.939.7544

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