SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a pioneering product of unique technology that improves the viewing experience of streaming videos

dBit Video Accelerator (www.videoaccelerator.com) is apioneering product of unique technology that improves the viewing experience ofstreaming videos - so far it has been adapted to speed up YouTube videos andeliminate buffering problems, but in light of the demand it will be expanded toadditional video streaming services very soon.The same technology will be used in the near future to accelerate video downloadsfrom different content providors as well.The Rich Media Delivery Barrier (downloading, Streaming)Delivering rich media to end users machines is turning out to be a major challengefor even the biggest media companies. High quality videos (and many times even lowquality videos) tend to freeze when streamed to end users, giving a somewhat poorviewing experience. Movies and TV series tend to take sometimes several long hoursto download (see Bambi Francisco's article on MarketWatch - Why Wal-Mart's MovieService is in Beta -http://www.marketwatch.com/ne ws/story/wal-marts-online-movi e-service-still/story.aspx?gui d=%7B2EFF18AC-30F5-4FAA-827F-F 18802306B52%7D ). These performance barriers slow down the adoption of the online rich mediadelivery platforms in their quest to make content easily and readily available toconsumers without the need to buy/rent/ship a physical CD or DVD.The TechnologyThe SpeedBit Video Accelerator leverages unique and patent pending multi connectiontechnology to accelerate the caching of streaming videos thus helping overcomeannoying buffering problems. This product, which works under the hood keeping theuser interface of the respective service in tact. For example when watching aYouTube video, the YouTube interface will simply show multiple leaps a head of thevideo caching bar resulting in much faster completion of the caching/downloading ofthe streaming video.Whenever a video is being accelerated a small message will show on the right bottomside of the screen indicating to the user that the acceleration is active.The main screen of the product also allows a user to make video searches straightfrom the desktop application the video search is based on videos on various videosites such as www.youtube.com, www.grouper.com, www.metacafe.com etc. more sites areadded every day.Strong Growth and high user interestWithin 2-3 days of the first beta release, and without any marketing/promotioneffort of any kind we have witnessed an extremely strong viral growth, bringing inup to 20,000 new users per day. This clearly reflects the ever growing need for aproduct that can provide the quality user experience anticipated by rich mediaconsumers, and leaves us wondering what the growth rate will be when the productofficially launches JWhat Next? The team is already working hard on adapting the product to support more videostreaming services both user generated video sites like MetaCafe, Grouper, GoogleVideo et al and is in discussion with studios to support their online streamingmovies/TV series services.The team is also working on supporting proprietary rich media download services likeApple's iTunes, Amazon's UnBox, WalMart video download service etc. Who we are?The SpeedBit Video Acelerator is made by Speedbit, the maker of Download AcceleratorPlus (the popular download manager with over 135 million registered users and morethan 50k new users joining everyday) which is backed by Pitango venture capital andYossi Vardi, the founding investor of ICQ the pioneering instant messenger that wassold to AOL in 1998, and managed by Ariel Yarnitky the former general manager ofICQ.

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