Version 1.0 of MovieStar Plug-Ins Released for Free Download: The Best Way to View "Fast Start" QuickTime and QuickTime VR Movies with Most Versions of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer

Business Wire, Sept 9, 1996

PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1996--Intelligence at Large, Inc. released Version 1.0 of the MovieStar Plug-Ins, the best way to view "fast start" QuickTime movies in recent versions of Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Plug-Ins are available for Mac OS, Win95, and Windows 3.1 users.

Netscape and Apple announced the integration of "fast start" QuickTime movie viewing into Navigator 3.0 last week. "Now, we'd like to offer the benefits of `fast start' movie viewing to everyone else browsing the Internet," said Cart Reed, president of Intelligence at Large, Inc. "We've been working closely with Apple to ensure that, with our plug-ins, 99.9% of the people visiting your site can get your multimedia message."

The MovieStar Plug-Ins offer online help, flexible preferences and a powerful pop-up menu for manipulating QuickTime movies. They also have built-in support for QuickTime VR. Over the last six months, users downloaded over 120,000 beta versions of the Plug-Ins for IAL's web site.

In the future, MovieStar Plug-Ins will support cross-platform live video feeds, audio conferencing, and media broadcasting, as part of IAL's partnership with Apple to port QuickTime Conferencing to Microsoft Windows.

About "Fast Start" QuickTime Movies

Unlike almost every other multimedia format, there is no server software to buy. "Fast start" QuickTime files can be placed on any Web server, on any platform. "Fast start" QuickTime movies are not blocked by corporate firewalls or protected networks, unlike other methods of streaming video. Anyone with access to the World Wide Web has access to "fast start" QuickTime movies.

Specifications

The MovieStar Plug-Ins are available on the Mac OS, Windows 95, and Windows 3.1. They require Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer (versions 2.0 and later).

To Download

The Plug-Ins can be downloaded without charge from IAL's web site at www.ialsoft.com/plugin.html.>Other "Fast Start" Applications from IAL Mac web designers can get a fast start on "fast start" movies using other multimedia tools from IAL. MovieStar 1.5, recently released at Macworld, allows web designers to create "fast start" movies as well as GIF89 animations for the web. Web administrators using WebStar 1.3 may be interested in IAL's WebStar AutoStreamer Plug-In. AutoStreamer automatically converts standard QuickTime movies to "fast start" movies on the fly, without changing a line of HTML code. Customers can order MovieStar 1.5 or the WebStar Plug-Ins from Intelligence at Large by calling 800-IAL-SOFT, or by downloading and purchasing the product directly from the company's web site at www.ialsoft.com. Free trial versions of both products are also available from the Web site. -0-

Note to Editors: Intelligence At Large, Inc. (IAL) develops and markets interactive multimedia software tools that expedite communications over computers in general and the Internet in particular. Its debut product was BeingThere, the first software-only multipoint videoconferencing system, introduced in 1993. Since then, the firm has developed the market's top-selling Internet phone, a unique multimedia authoring tool for creating movies and animations on the Web and a variety of other products that advance the art of online communication and collaboration. The company is currently teaming with Apple Computer to extend Apple's QuickTime Conferencing system for multimedia conferencing to the Windows platform. IAL is privately held and headquartered in Philadelphia. All products mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners.

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