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Home Movie Depot, Inc. and Kaltura Team to Deliver a Wide Variety of Video Digitization, Editing, Collaboration and DVD-Burning Tools
Online Home Movie Transfer Company Partners With Nation's Top Video Collaboration Website
| Source: Kaltura
ASHLAND, MO--(Marketwire - March 4, 2008) - Home Movie Depot, Inc. -- the online
destination where consumers and professional videographers have their
family movies digitized into DVDs -- is proud to announce its partnership
with Kaltura, Inc. -- the People's Choice for #1 video sharing website, as
voted in the Mashable Open Web Awards and at TechCrunch40. This
partnership will revolutionize the way that users share movies online. The
relationship involves a multi-phase release of features, beginning with the
offering of Home Movie Depot digitization services to all Kaltura Network
members through HomeMovieDepot.com.
"We're very proud to be partnering with a company that shares our desire to
lead the industry with new technology," says Gerald McKinney, president of
Home Movie Depot. "Home Movie Depot's mission is to help people have fun
with their memories while creating new ones, and Kaltura whole-heartedly
embodies that mission."
The first phase of this joint venture launches in March, when users all
across the Kaltura Network will be able to combine footage shot with their
digital camera with digitized footage from old 8mm & 16mm films, Beta & VHS
tapes, slides, negatives, photos, etc. Home Movie Depot will digitize
movies, send back a DVD and/or hard drive of the digital files and
automatically upload the files to the customer's account. Phase two of
the project will enable users to add and edit material, and further
customize the DVD using Kaltura's technology.
"Kaltura is very excited about this relationship with Home Movie Depot,
and the synergy between our two companies," says Ron Yekutiel, CEO of
Kaltura. "This partnership fits perfectly into our strategy of enhancing
and spreading Kaltura's technology through existing sites and communities.
Our entire Network will now be able to offer their users the option to
digitize their media and burn their online videos on DVDs."
"Home Movie Depot is already a dominant online provider of digitization
services, and this partnership will allow even more users to benefit from
our ever growing product and service offerings," said Chris Force, Vice
President of Sales and Marketing at Home Movie Depot. "This partnership
compliments our world-wide sales efforts through our rapidly growing
affiliate and partnership programs. We continue to offer industry leading,
state of the art programs to end users, photographers, videographers and
retail outlets combined with exceptional customer service."
About Home Movie Depot
HomeMovieDepot.com is an online destination where consumers can have their
analog media (slides, photos, negatives, 8mm, 16mm, VHS, Betamax, etc.)
professionally digitized into DVDs or other digital formats. When
converting video to DVD or transferring 8mm or 16mm film to a hard drive,
you're taking the first step in joining the home-movie community. With a
mission to unify friends and family in the celebration of home movies, Home
Movie Depot wants you to have fun with your memories. Home Movie Depot is
proud to have been spotlighted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Parade, Yahoo TV9, and Consumer Reports. Most recently, the company has
opened a new location in Xalapa, Veracruz in Mexico for servicing the Latin
American market. (www.HomeMovieDepot.com.mx)
About Kaltura
Kaltura has developed the first open source platform for video creation,
management and collaboration. Kaltura's platform enables any site to
seamlessly and cost-effectively integrate advanced interactive rich-media
functionalities, including video searching, uploading, importing, editing,
annotating, remixing, and sharing. The platform also includes unique
collaboration functionalities that allow groups of users to create rich
media together, and enables publishers to access and syndicate reusable
content across the Kaltura Network of content and to enjoy aggregated
hosted video services such as video advertising, professional editing, and
DVD printing.
Founded in 2006, Kaltura's management and advisory team includes top notch
advertising, marketing, and media executives as well as open source experts
and seasoned technology entrepreneurs, including co-founders of ICQ, Cyota,
and Destinator Technologies. Since its public launch in September 2007,
New York-based Kaltura has won the People's Choice Award at both the
TechCrunch40 event, and the Mashable Open Web Awards. For more information
visit www.kaltura.com or visit the Kaltura blog at
www.kaltura.com/blog/