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TV Studio-in-a-Box allows anyone to be a broadcaster

NewTek TriCaster™ leads the Internet Television Revolution

San Antonio, Texas – August 1, 2006 -- Since 1950, history has unfolded before us, live on television. The ability to present or interpret those events, however, has always been restricted to a few broadcast executives. With the advent of Internet Protocol Television, or IPTV, producers can now reach their target audiences directly on the Internet. While distribution opened up, an affordable way to produce professional-looking Internet TV remained an obstacle.

"Video has become the most compelling communications medium,” said Steve Vonder Haar, Research Director at Interactive Media Strategies. "Tools like TriCaster are making it possible for more people to integrate professional-class live-video production into events designed to reach targeted online audiences.”

The launch of NewTek TriCaster presented broadcasters with a $4995 live production appliance that was easy enough for volunteers and students to quickly understand and use. TriCaster provides a complete suite of tools for creating and delivering live video presentations at the highest professional production quality, in the most easy to use, compact and affordable package ever created – essentially a live television studio in a box. PowerPoint support, easy template-based creation of graphics and titles, and television production tools labeled in plain English rather than video jargon, allow the user to begin producing professional-quality video within minutes of opening the box.

“Internet television is a frightening prospect for the four big networks, disrupting their role as the gate-keepers of information,” said Philip Nelson, NewTek Vice President of Sales and Video Marketing. “Now, with the immediacy of Internet TV and TriCaster’s ease of use, anyone can bring their version of history to the world.”

TriCaster Features Include:

• Portable live presentation from a compact box less than one cubic foot and only 10 pounds
• Stream live to the Internet in just a few mouse clicks
• iVGA™ gives you the functionality of high-end scan converters by allowing you to integrate full motion screens from remotely connected computers
• Easy creation of onscreen titles
• Chroma keying lets you blend live cameras with video clips
• Virtual VCR cues digital video clips and plays them back the instant they are selected for live output, boosting the production value of your presentations
• Integrated real-time video editing allows for on-site changes and client approvals
• Output to composite, S-Video or Component
• Record shows to the internal drive for later playback, editing or on-demand streaming

TriCaster PRO™
NewTek’s latest release, TriCaster PRO™, brings powerful new functionality to the award-winning product line, including the ability to mix multiple live component cameras with pre-recorded video, overlay titles, images, external computer displays and even live web pages with simultaneous output to video, a projector, and the Internet. It also features push streaming, a waveform monitor/vectorscope, enhancing production and distribution capabilities for Internet broadcasters everywhere.

Awards
Since its launch in 2005, TriCaster has won the following industry awards: 2005 Technical Emmy® nomination; Government Video Salute 2005; NAB AIM Award; Computer Graphics World Editor’s Pick NAB 2005; Streaming Media Magazine Producer’s Pick; Church Media Hotlist NAB Best of Show; EventDV Editor’s Pick Best of 2005; Byte Media Labs Cold Dead Fingers Award; studio/monthly “Hot” rating; DEMO@15 Producer’s Pick; 4Ever Group Product Innovation Award; Videomaker Magazine Best Products 2005; Videoguys Top 10.

Pricing and Availability
For more information, please visit http://www.newtek.com or call NewTek Sales at 1-800-368-5441, international callers dial +1-210-370-8000. To locate a NewTek Authorized Reseller, please visit http://www.newtek.com/dealers, or to locate a NewTek International Distributor, please visit http://www.newtek.com/dealers/international.php

About NewTek
With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, live production, presentation and visual effects tools including TriCaster™, VT[5]™, SpeedEDIT™, 3D Arsenal™ and LightWave 3D®.
Website: http://www.newtek.com/

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