Kulabyte and Mogulus Announce Partnership to Deliver Live Flash HD Quality Encoding and Broadcasting to More Internet Producers

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mogulus, a leading Live Internet video platform, and Kulabyte LLC, a leader in Live HD Internet TV encoding and streaming, announced today the launch of the first Internet video portal platform which will support high quality Live Flash encoding and streaming up to HD resolutions. The partnership brings Kulabyte’s XStream and XPress Live Flash encoding solutions together with the growing 50,000 worldwide Internet TV producers who utilize the cutting edge Mogulus Studio applications for Live and on demand broadcasting and streaming over the Web.

Mogulus and Kulabyte have also signed an agreement for the inclusion of the Kulabyte product solutions as part of the Mogulus Pro upgrade options. Mogulus will act as a reseller of the Kulabyte Live XStream and Live XPress product line. “The new Live XPress product line is designed specifically for the needs of small and medium size Internet broadcasters. Kulabyte’s XStream is the hottest HD Live Web streaming product available. With this deal, Mogulus and Kulabyte will democratize high quality Live Flash streaming, delivering to every producer the highest quality viewer experience for their audiences,” said Max Haot, CEO of Mogulus.

Mogulus’s internet video platform gives producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station. Key features include: live multi-camera mixing, broadcast graphics, 24/7 scheduled playout, video on demand, chat, embeddable and brand-able Flash player, built in scalable CDN and analytics.

This week at NAB, Mogulus is also launching it’s new Video on demand feature and announcing the upcoming Mogulus Pro. Mogulus Pro is a white-label, ad-free, pay-for-usage version of the Mogulus platform designed for media professionals. The Mogulus platform and Kulabyte encoder integration is being showcased live at the Mogulus booth SL3705 April 14-17 at NAB.

“We are excited to begin this partnership with Mogulus and for them to make the Kulabyte technology available to all their producers and partners. Our two companies are committed to optimizing Live Flash Web streaming so Internet viewers around the world will finally receive the benefit of a full screen, high quality, live TV experience, on a scale unlike ever before,” remarked Chris Gottschalk, CTO and Co-founder of Kulabyte. Last month Mogulus had over 2.5 million individual viewers worldwide, with its viewership recently doubling every month.

Mogulus and Kulabyte have also announced their first professional broadcast partner, Premiere Entertainment Network of Los Angeles, who is working with NAB to broadcast the show and selected events Live over the internet, NABLIVE.TV, though the Mogulus portal site during the conference in Las Vegas. Broadcast is scheduled to start Monday at 9 am PST and will be a high quality 500kbs stream over the Mogulus network using the Kulabyte XStream encoders.

Kulabyte’s XStream Live and XPress Live product line is currently being adopted by major broadcast and social networks around the world. Kulabyte proprietary encoding technologies enable up to a 30% increase in quality, or bandwidth savings when compared to standard live encoding and streaming media technologies. With Kulabyte’s unique ability to utilize live 2-pass variable bit rate (VBR) encoding and streaming, customers and viewers realize superior qualities and better bandwidth utilization in live IP streaming solutions.

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About Kulabyte

“Powering Live HD Internet TV,” Kulabyte is a leading developer of advanced video encoding solutions for multi-format capturing, encoding, transcoding, and Live streaming of high quality video over the web. All products incorporate Kulabyte´s multi-core TimeSlice™ technology that significantly accelerates the encoding process, increases picture quality, and reduces the required bandwidth for video transmission. Video can now be encoded and transmitted at full SD and HD quality at consumer-level broadband speeds using the world’s only Live 2 pass Variable Bit Rate (VBR) streaming process. Kulabyte solutions consist of software and turn-key hardware products which are uniquely scalable and high performing. Products are geared for small to large professionals and enterprise networks producing or distributing Live or On-demand video using multiple codec solutions. For information visit www.kulabyte.com.

About Mogulus

Mogulus is an internet video platform giving producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station. Key features include: live multi-camera mixing, broadcast graphics, 24/7 scheduled playout, video on demand, chat, embeddable and brand-able Flash player, built in scalable CDN, analytics. For more information visit www.mogulus.com.