-- PhotoShow.com - the fastest, easiest way to make PhotoShows online -- no software to install -- from any PC or Macintosh. Launching today, users visiting Photoshow.com can express themselves by sharing PhotoShows via email, broadcasting their personal PhotoShows to popular social networking sites like MySpace, or easily sprucing up their eBay auctions. The response to the PhotoShow.com beta has been overwhelming with over 750,000 PhotoShows being viewed every day. To learn more and get started making PhotoShows today visit http://beta.photoshow.com/home. -- PhotoShowTV - the ultimate PhotoShow viewing experience. Now users, their friends and family can be the stars on TV by enjoying broadcast quality PhotoShows in their living room. PhotoShowTV is currently running in Hawaii via Oceanic Cable, a division of Time Warner Cable. Users can sit back and bring their memories to life on Video On Demand with a click of the remote, and can pause, rewind or view their favorite shows anytime. Time Warner Cable is currently planning to introduce PhotoShowTV in additional markets. For more information about the Time Warner Cable pilot visit www.rr.com/photoshowtv. -- PhotoShow Deluxe - a powerful, yet easy to use, desktop software package that contains everything users need to bring their memories to life. With PhotoShow Deluxe users can easily manage, edit and share their digital photos and videos and transform them into amazing musical PhotoShows. One-click styles get them up and running, fast. PhotoShow Deluxe includes over 400 songs and 200 clip art animations and a free personal web site where users can share their shows with friends and family. PhotoShow Deluxe 5, available in December, will feature rich new themes, styles and format enhancements as well as music from popular artists like Miles Davis, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Blues Traveler and Thievery Corporation. -- PhotoShow DVD - makes it easy for users to turn their favorite PhotoShow into a unique, personalized keepsake. PhotoShow DVDs bring family and friends closer together with a commemorative disc that plays on virtually any DVD player. Users can enjoy high quality DVDs in the comfort of their living room for years to come and can choose from a collection of beautifully designed, professional quality packaging options that can be customized for any occasion. PhotoShow DVDs can be created by using PhotoShow Deluxe or by logging into to PhotoShow.com. Users can also visit popular photos sharing sites like Flickr, Shutterfly or Kodak to transform their static pictures into a movie-like experience to keep in their DVD collection or give as a special gift."Time Warner Cable's PhotoShowTV, through our partnership with Simple Star has been a great success in Hawaii, enabling our local customers to share family photos in an entirely new way," said Robert Benya, SVP of Video On Demand and Interactive Product Management at Time Warner Cable. "By letting customers put their favorite photos and video clips on TV, we're continuing the Time Warner tradition of innovation by matching new products with consumer demands." About Simple Star Founded in 2001, Simple Star develops software products and services that help consumers share their memories in entertaining ways through PhotoShow, the most complete and easy-to-use photo platform available. Simple Star distributes its award-winning PhotoShow software primarily through partners such as cable companies, digital media software providers, online photo services, retailers with photofinishing services and hardware manufacturers. Millions of new users are creating, sharing and viewing PhotoShows every month. Across multiple business sectors momentum is building that PhotoShow is an emerging standard. Simple Star partners include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Nero, Kodak, Shutterfly, Snapfish, Flickr, Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens, Pentax and Fisher Price.
Simple Star Launches PhotoShow Platform With Four Products Targeting a Full Range of Consumer Digital Media Needs
New Product Line-Up Meets Consumer Demand for Easy, Digital Entertainment -- Everywhere
| Source: Simple Star
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- October 18, 2006 -- Simple Star, creator of award-winning
PhotoShow software and services, is making it even easier for consumers to
enjoy digital entertainment with today's announcement of its new PhotoShow
platform, complete with four products designed to support the growing
demand for user-generated media in an on-demand world. The new PhotoShow
platform provides consumers with anytime, anywhere access to entertaining
PhotoShows, easily created with digital photos, video clips and music that
can be shared on the screen of their choice, whether a PC, a TV or a
handheld device.
The new PhotoShow platform includes product enhancements and features that
enable consumers to create and share PhotoShows the way they want to -- via
software on a PC, on the Internet and on TV via DVDs and Digital Cable
Video On Demand, making Simple Star the first company to provide such an
array of options for sharing digital photos and videos.
"Digital media is being created and delivered to consumers in more ways
than ever before," said Chad Richard, CEO of Simple Star. "And, the
on-demand phenomenon we're witnessing across the user-generated media
landscape is driving a need to provide even more options for sharing
entertainment everywhere -- whether in the home, on the road or in the
office. The PhotoShow platform uniquely provides us the ability to deliver
the industry's most compelling digital entertainment products to today's
on-demand world."
Simple Star PhotoShows provide compelling, personal entertainment by
turning digital photos and videos into rich multimedia experiences that
combine broadcast quality credits, captions, transitions, special effects
and animations with a great musical soundtrack. Millions of people are
experiencing PhotoShows through Simple Star and its wide range of partners,
including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Nero, Kodak, Shutterfly,
Snapfish, Flickr, Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens, Pentax and Fisher Price.
The Simple Star PhotoShow Platform
Demand for new services that deliver entertaining user-generated media to
consumers whenever and wherever they want it continues. Simple Star
addresses this need with the following products that enable consumers to
share PhotoShows on the screen of their choice: