Anaheim, California, June 15, 2001. – WebcastingTV announced today the release of the third generation of their V-Button Universal Player.  “The new V-Button Player is much more intuitive for an Internet user to navigate,” says Burt Yale, CEO of WebcastingTV.com, Inc.  The V-Button Universal Players keeps track of the media preferences (Windows Media, RealPlayer, or QuickTime) of each user, and then serves the V-Button clip in the format they prefer.

WebcastingTV’s V-Button Service creates and streams online video commercials for Internet directories such as YellowPages.com, InformationPages.com, and approximately 22 other regional online yellow page publishers.  WebcastingTV is the exclusive provider for all streaming video services of these publishers, and has production resources in 44 of the top 100 markets.  “We are currently contracted by publisher in 27 states, and are expecting to be in all 50 states, and top 100 markets, by second quarter 2002,” says Burt Yale.

The new release version of the V-Button Universal Player incorporates a much more sophisticated approach to player “aggregation.”  This refers to the process an end user follows to select, test, verify, and if necessary install, one of the compatible streaming software applications.  “Market data states that approximately 80% of the Internet users have one of the major streaming software applications already installed.  We simply help them find the best choice for them, test it, and then store the selection so that they never have to go through the player selection process again,” according to Burt Yale, CEO of WebcastingTV.

To test the new V-Button player selection process, click on this link http://www.v-button.com in order to take you to the V-Button Examples page. Then, select one of the V-Button programs.  If you go straight to the video, then your player has already been configured, so if you would like to check out the revised player selection process, press the “change player” button.

More information is available through WebcastingTV at 714-693-5300

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