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VideoApp's Flasher! DRM is a revolutionary video delivery system with Copy Protection and Digital Rights Management (DRM). Flasher! leverages the widespread deployment of Flash, bringing high quality, copy-protected video delivery of content to a growing population of video-hungry internet users.

Flasher! is an amazingly flexible and intelligent platform, automatically detecting user conditions to provide optimal playback quality. Being a managed service, there are no growing pains and deployment is quick and easy. You will never outgrow the available capacity, and the more you use, the cheaper it gets. High volume users pay the same as they would be paying for bandwidth alone!

Flasher! is currently used in our Video-On-Demand sites and in various cooperative projects with other companies. If you are interested in integrating the technology, contact us at info@videoapp.net .

Features and Benefits
  • Flasher! is immediately available on over 98% of desktops worldwide because it was developed for Adobe Flash. For those remaining few %, installation is automatic and takes seconds. Flasher! is cross-platform, cross-browser; works perfectly on Windows Vista, XP, OS X, AOL, IE, Firefox, Safari and is fully compatible with most older operating systems. Compare to Windows and Real penetrations of 80% and 55%.
  • Flasher! works great on all internet connections, from broadband, cable, DSL, down to slower connections. Flasher! is smart. It automatically detects your connection speed to multiple datacenters, and detects your CPU and video power, to provide you with the optimal viewing experience. True DVD quality is available for broadband users on newer PCs. No other Flash-based VOD solution offers this, they offer only one medium quality file for everyone.
  • Flasher! protects video content from being stolen through a very robust proprietary licensing and copy-protection backend system. There are numerous ways to "steal" content... all are thwarted with Flasher! Absolutely no other Flash-based VOD solution offers this extremely valuable capability. Plus, no annoying "additional" plugins or technical hassles like Windows Media DRM and Real DRM.
  • Flasher allows rights management to be applied to content, such as X plays and Y shelflife.
  • Flasher! features instant playback, without buffering... buffering... buffering, plus the ability to instantly jump anyway in the video, which can be up to several hours long. Compare to Windows Media or Real.
  • Flasher! features a scene selection menu, displaying scene images and descriptions, allowing instant switching between scenes. Yet another user-friendly innovative feature of Flasher!
  • Flasher! can provide automatic previews of movies, capturing glimpes of each scene, simply using timecodes. No video editing and additional encoding is required.
  • Flasher! is future-proof because we have a team of specialist constantly updating, testing and improving the technology. Before you are even aware of future browser or Flash changes, we will have implemented the updates. That's part of the beauty of a managed solution.

 


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