AGNOSTIC MEDIA -- ABOUT US -- HISTORY

August 2000: Incorporated as Streaming Media Technologies Inc.
April 2001: Exhibited at NAB, displayed concept
May 2001: Closed a Seed round of non-institutional funding
June 2001: Initiated development of DMMP™
June 2001: Encoded and streamed the Virgin Mega webcast of "Travis" - live from Virgin Mega on Sunset
September 2001: Demonstrated first beta version of DMMP™
October 2001: Becomes developers with SGI, Microsoft, OpenTV, Sun, Apple, Liberate, Alticast
November 2001: Signed up first paying beta customers November 2001 - DMMP™ fully supports all known audio formats to include MP3, Real Audio, Windows Media Audio, QuickTime, WAV, and AIFF
April 2002: Official launch of DMMP™ 1.0 at NAB - Global Crossing calls it "the first global, converged solution provider" for the Media and Entertainment industry. DMMP™ 1.0, changing the economics of Digital Media™ saves customers at least 58% of their current costs associated with managing and producing digital media content.
August 2002: To demonstrate diversity in applying its technology, Fine New Homes agrees to use DMMP™ to streamline their production workflow - from edit suite to streaming server - DMMP™ is utilized to transcodes and store all of their spots.
March 2003: Becomes an AVID MetaSync developer, revolutionizing the way metadata is managed in broadcast
April 2003: Savvis licenses DMMP™ to launch on their global network as a network-based application utility for transcoding
April 2003: DMMP™ 1.5 launched at NAB - exhibit in Hewlett Packard's booth. Offer enhanced transcoding and support for numerous formats.
May 2003: Becomes key member of AAF Organization September 2003 - Launch DMMP™ Version 2.0 which includes automated image processing, real-time or faster than real-time transcoding as well as HD resolution support for all HD formats, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and DPX.
September 2003: Agnostic becomes an IBM Business Partner as well as an HP Developer & Solution Partner
November 2003: Agnostic announces PIAS™ (Photo Information and Archival System), the company's first product for managing the workflows associated with editing, archiving, storage, reformatting and distribution of images and photos. PIAS™ is ideally suited for Broadcasters, News Agencies, Magazines, and Publications.
January 2004: Remote Authentication Platform (RAP) obtains with Microsoft .NET Connected Premium logo certification.
April 2004: Launched SCREENER™- the film industries first fully secure digital screening platform. Supports MXF, MPEG ISO-REL to Windows Media 9 DRM Video format and authentication is managed and secured using biometrics of RAP.
November 2004: Licensed to Tunestile, Inc. - a music distribution and aggregation, and clearinghouse for premium music catalogs.
April 2005: GridCoder™ - Agnostic launches a grid transcoding solution to accelerate the transcoding processes for IPTV, VOD, and On-Demand customers. GridCoder™ features parallel processing with performance times of minutes instead of hours. For example, 2.5 hour film takes 10 minutes using GridCoder™.
April 2006: Transcode DVE - Agnostic launches VODFLOW™s its own inline transcoding graphics system to automate the production of rating slates, bugging, and POC's (promo over credits), which eases the process of branding film and video content for any network or carrier.