Simple Star Expands Unique Integrated Platform for Digital Media Creation and Sharing
New PhotoShow 5 and PhotoShow.com Enable Consumers to Tell Stories Quickly and Easily With Photos and Videos -- Anytime, Anywhere
LAS VEGAS, NV -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 8, 2007 -- PMA 2007 -- Booth #X128 -- Simple Star,
creator of award-winning PhotoShow software and services, today unveiled
two new products that expand the company's unique, interconnected digital
media platform, making it even easier for consumers to create and share
entertaining PhotoShows anytime and anywhere they want.
Simple Star PhotoShows provide compelling, personal entertainment by
turning digital photos and videos into rich multimedia slideshows that
combine broadcast-quality credits, captions, transitions, special effects
and animations with a great musical soundtrack. Unlike ordinary slideshows,
PhotoShows are incredibly easy to create, yet have the ability to amaze any
audience. Millions of people are experiencing PhotoShows through Simple
Star and its wide range of partners, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable,
Cablevision, Nero, Kodak, Shutterfly, Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens, and
Fisher Price.
"Simple Star is the only digital media company that meets the convergence
of PCs, the Web, TV and portable devices," said Chad Richard, CEO of Simple
Star. "Our deep roots as an innovator in digital media have enabled us to
uniquely deliver a consistent user experience that works seamlessly in
multiple environments. Through our interconnected ecosystem approach and
our impressive list of partners, millions of consumers now have the ability
to tell their stories in new compelling ways."
With the new release of PhotoShow 5 and the new PhotoShow.com online story
telling community, anyone can quickly and easily organize, edit, and print
their digital photos and video clips, and use them to create amazing
musical slideshows to share with friends and family across the globe.
PhotoShow 5
PhotoShow 5 represents an important leap in the evolution of the PhotoShow
experience. Eighty-eight One Click styles enable users to instantly create
a show with preset musical or visual themes. Broadcast-quality 3D effects
and transitions, new fonts and title packages, clever animations, and great
licensed music (not run of the mill stock clips) from real musical artists
set PhotoShows apart from the competition. The Photoshow jukebox now boasts
over 400 songs from artists like Ornette Coleman, Deana Carter, John
Coltrane, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Isaac Hayes, Blues Traveler, Miles Davis,
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Calexico, Thievery Corporation and many more.
PhotoShow 5 makes it easy for users to manage, edit and share video clips
-- and to include them in PhotoShows. The software also features a more
intuitive User Interface, better management and photo editing tools and the
ability to archive photos and video clips for safekeeping. The intuitive
Help system makes using the program effortless. And the software integrates
seamlessly with PhotoShow.com, one of the most important new elements of
the PhotoShow experience.
PhotoShow.com
PhotoShow.com is the fastest, easiest way to make PhotoShows from any PC or
Macintosh and is the essential companion service to PhotoShow 5. This new
online sharing community brings PhotoShow users and viewers together, by
providing PhotoShow members with their own web page. The new PhotoShow.com
channel format makes it easy to find the shows users want to see and
provides a great viewing experience. Shows created via the site at
www.photoshow.com can be easily emailed to friends and family or broadcast
to blogs, popular social networking sites like MySpace or other sites such
as Ebay to spruce up auctions.
Combined with Simple Star's PhotoShowTV for sharing PhotoShows on cable
television, and PhotoShow DVD for transforming PhotoShows into personal
keepsakes, Simple Star provides consumers the only interconnected platform
through which to create, share and enjoy broadcast quality photo and video
slideshows everywhere -- in the living room, on the PC or on the go.
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,
Ritz Camera Centers, Walgreens, Pentax and Fisher Price.