Streaming Media Readers Select ViewCast's VMp as This Year's Best Enterprise Video Platform

PLANO, Texas, Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewCast Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: VCST), a developer of industry-leading solutions for the transformation, management and delivery of digital media over enterprise, broadband, and mobile networks, today announced that ViewCast Media Platform (VMp™) was voted by the readers of Streaming Media magazine as the winner of the best Enterprise Video Platform for 2010. This is the fourth consecutive year that ViewCast has won a Streaming Media Readers' Choice Award. The Niagara® Pro II won in 2009 in the Hardware Encoder (SD) category, the Osprey 700e HD video capture card won in the Encoding Hardware category in 2008, and the Company's entire Osprey® product line won in the Encoding Hardware category in 2007.

"We are thrilled about the rapid adoption and success of VMp since its introduction earlier this year," said ViewCast President and CEO Dave Stoner who accepted the Readers' Choice Award at this week's ceremony at Streaming Media West in Los Angeles. "We thank the readers of Streaming Media magazine who have once again recognized the value of our innovative products and services within the streaming industry."

"This year we've seen more voters, more votes, and more winners than ever before," said Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. "More than 7,000 voters cast more than 58,000 votes, indicating just how exciting and vibrant this industry is and how passionately people feel about the products they use."

ViewCast Media Platform (VMp)

ViewCast Media Platform (VMp) is a unified framework that helps organizations manage the full life cycle of their digital media. VMp enables video content acquisition, transformation, indexing, workflow and distribution. VMp Portal also provides comprehensive support for live video sources and events as well as archived or on-demand content.

Organizations from all sectors - especially media and entertainment, education, retail/CPG, finance and government - are finding new ways to create value by leveraging the power of digital media. These organizations can build new audiences and engage with customers like never before by delivering IP video to all "three screens," building brand equity, training and communicating among distributed workforces more effectively.

By combining ViewCast's industry leading Osprey and Niagara video encoding solutions with the capabilities of VMp – live scheduling and event management, video on-demand, digital asset management and enterprise content management infrastructure from IBM – ViewCast has created the most comprehensive solution available for driving value with digital media.

About ViewCast

ViewCast develops industry-leading hardware and software for the transformation, management and delivery of professional quality video over broadband, enterprise and mobile networks. ViewCast's award-winning solutions simplify the complex workflows required for the Web-based streaming of news, sports, music, and other video content to computers and mobile devices, empowering broadcasters, businesses, and governments to easily and effectively reach and expand their audiences. With more than 350,000 video capture cards deployed globally, ViewCast sets the standard in the streaming media industry. ViewCast Niagara® streaming appliances, Osprey® video capture cards and VMp™ video and digital asset management systems provide the highly reliable technology required to deliver the multi-platform experiences driving today's digital media market.

ViewCast (www.viewcast.com) is headquartered in Plano, Texas, USA, with sales and distribution channels located globally.

ViewCast, VMp, Osprey, Niagara and Niagara SCX are trademarks or registered trademarks of ViewCast Corporation or its subsidiaries.

SOURCE ViewCast Corporation

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