Streamload MediaMax

The world’s largest online media center helps everyday users easily and securely manage their entire media collection in one central location  

Streamload MediaMaxTM, the world’s largest online media center, helps consumers centrally store, organize, access, and share their entire media collection.  For the first time, people have the freedom and tools to share their home videos and photos in full-quality original formats and also access their music, TV shows and movie recordings remotely via the Internet.

“For many technology users, the risk of digital chaos is rapidly escalating and threatening to overwhelm their ability to manage it all -- especially for those digital media consumers and mobile users who use many different types of files, devices and connectivity technologies,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences.  Streamload is uniquely positioned to help mainstream consumers avoid digital chaos by unifying and organizing all of their digital content and to find, access, and share their own content when and where they want it.” 

Featuring the first full-quality home video sharing service of its kind, the Video Share service within MediaMax enables easy, secure, one-click sharing and remote access from any internet-connected device.  It brings the ease and familiarity of photo-sharing to the world of regular and high-definition video.    With Video Share, users can build video albums, scan their videos via automatically created video thumbnails, and send full-quality video files (including high-definition video) as easily as they send email.

“We are excited to offer the first full-quality video sharing service that allows customers to fulfill the promise of their digital camcorders by enabling them to share their video creations with friends and family over the Internet,” said Steve Iverson, founder, president and CEO of Streamload.

The new Streamload MediaMax XL application lets users easily upload to and download from Streamload MediaMax using a drag and drop window on their desktop. It also automatically performs regular backups of designated folders from their PC and it synchronizes files across multiple computers and devices every time new files are added, changed or deleted on their computer. The benefit of the Streamload MediaMax XL application's automatic backup and sync is users will always have their files when and where they need them without the hassle of manual uploads.

Users of the service can also invite friends and family to sync folders on their computers. Without any additional effort beyond putting the files on their own computers, users can automatically share photos and personal video instantaneously with others who are subscribed to their synchronized folders.

Video Share offers these exciting features and benefits:

·         Eliminates the need to buy additional hardware by providing 250 GB of online storage space for home videos so people can securely and privately store their most precious moments.

·         Makes personal media mobile: It’s easy to move files to any internet-connected device, on-demand.

·         Works anytime and anywhere: Now anyone can store their movies and other digital media in one place that is accessible from anywhere ­ and view them anytime from any internet-connected TV, PC, or Personal Media Center device.

·         Sharing dynamic life experiences is now as easy as a click of a button: anyone can send and receive full-quality video ­ as easily as they send email.

·         Enhances existing devices and services: It makes Windows Media Center and PMC devices better by allowing users to easily access their collections while avoiding storage capacity constraints.

Benefits of Streamload MediaMaxTM include:

·         Limitation-free sending of large files or large amounts of files   

§         Never clog up  email accounts

§         No file size is too large to send via web mail

·         Unlimited online storage

§         Stores any file type of any size

·         Trouble-free uploading and downloading of large files

§         Uploading and downloading can be paused and resumed for convenience

·         Headache-free service reliability

§         24/7 access from anywhere, anytime

§         24-hour customer support

MediaMax is an evolution of Streamload’s original internet service with a brand new, easier-to-use interface along with enhanced features and powerful tools to provide even the most novice users the opportunity to better enjoy and manage their entire digital media collection. From better digital photo management to enhanced uploading capabilities, additional new features include:

§         One-click photo sharing

§         Remote access streaming of audio and video files

§         Address book

§         Tagging ­ attach keywords to content and use them to create links/connections between different types of media

§         Server-side transcoding ­ automatic file format conversions

“Although some first generation online services have attempted to help consumers organize their digital files, thus far they have been focused only on a specific area, such as photo sharing and printing services, or have been hampered by limitations such as the cost of storage or the limited size of files that they can handle,” said Kurt Scherf, Parks Associates. “Streamload MediaMax is optimized by its ability to support a wide variety of end-users’ content and addressing consumers’ concerns for organizing, accessing, as well as sharing. “

”Streamload MediaMax finally addresses people’s desires to share their full-quality home videos with their friends and families in the same way that’s become so popular with photo sharing.  We believe that mainstream users and power users alike want a single reliable online service that can seamlessly handle all of their digital data easily ­ without steep learning curves,” added Iverson,. “For those who are frustrated by current email limitations, concerned about the ever-shrinking storage space of their hard drive or are craving a hassle-free way to organize their personal digital libraries, MediaMax is Streamload’s answer to everyone’s digital media woes.”

Streamload Web Services

 Streamload Web Services consists Streamload Storage and Processing Services (SPS) and the Streamload Platform application programming interface (API.)

Streamload’s two distinct Web Services options enable developers to build software applications, Internet-connected hardware, and online services with a reliable and infinitely scalable data storage infrastructure and no upfront costs.

Through Streamload Web Services, developers and companies can now offer their customers around the world the capability to store their personal digital content, share their content without limits, collaborate, incorporate their own metadata (tags), and utilize their media on-demand from any platform or Internet-connected device.

Streamload SPS enables developers to easily and quickly build any application or online service that requires online storage, file transfer, or media transcoding. Developers can also create their own pricing models and charge customers for the use of their service. Meanwhile, the cost of storage to the developer is as low as $.10 per GB of storage per month. Streamload SPS therefore provides both developers and their customers access to highly scalable, reliable, inexpensive, and secure data storage without the risk of up-front network costs and large storage investments.

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