Streaming Video E-Mail Is Here

Staff -- graphic arts online, 12/1/2000

With video e-mail poised to become the next logical step in user communication and business promotions, Boston-based Digital Media Works reports that it now offers a system that allows any user to receive video e-mail messages of more than one megabyte in size without any special hardware, software, plug-ins, or special applications.

By downloading a free application at www.videomailstudio.com, users can record, edit, process, and upload streaming videos to their account on the VideoMail Studio site to send video e-mail and manage video Web greetings for their personal or business Web sites.

The video e-mail, which can be sent to hundreds or thousands of contacts at once, is based on a small link that is sent in a standard HTML/text message through conventional e-mail. When this link is clicked, a window is launched and the video is streamed to the users without taking up space in the users' e-mail system or on their hard drive.