GrindTV Brings Aloha Spirit Home to its Community of Fans by Sharing High-quality Surf Videos Just Days after Footage is Shot in Hawaii
LAS VEGAS–January 8, 2006–PureVideo Networks’ GrindTV.com (www.grindtv.com), a destination for extreme and action sports video, has launched an all high definition (HD) video channel on DivX Stage6. Featuring free high-quality HD surf videos, GrindTV content is available for viewing or download on Stage6 at https://stage6.divx.com/GrindTV.
Select videos on the GrindTV.com website currently feature an associated link on the video view page, pointing to the availability of DivX versions on Stage6.
Shot and edited right on the beach at the Grind House on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, GrindTV uploads their videos to Stage6 as they are produced. The clips feature content that includes coverage of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Series, as well as original features such as “Girls of the North Shore,” a series dedicated to profiling noted female surfers, such as Kat Carter, Holly Beck, and others.
DivX offers content providers such as GrindTV the ability to publish true HD content online that can be downloaded and played back on affordable DivX Certified HD DVD players already in the market.
“At GrindTV we pride ourselves in producing the best original action sports content. We only shoot in HD, and it was important to find the right partner to help us showcase the high visual and production quality of our videos to a larger audience,” said Erik Hawkins, CEO and co-founder of PureVideo Networks, Inc. “Right off the bat, we were blown away by the video quality of DivX, and to be able to share the latest GrindTV surf videos with our community right away from the beach has been an amazing experience.”
“GrindTV content is a perfect fit for Stage6. It’s incredibly high-quality content that consumers want to enjoy in a home theater environment,” said Darrius Thompson, CXO, Community and Internet, DivX, Inc. “At DivX we focus on offering our Stage6 community a high-quality ‘lean back’ experience where the viewer can sit back and engage with what they are watching in the living room, as opposed to a low quality ‘lean forward’ experience where content is trapped on the PC.”
In addition to creating a high-quality viewing experience for consumers, DivX Stage6 empowers GrindTV fans to take their favorite videos beyond the PC–content is easily transferred among an entire ecosystem of DivX Certified devices and platforms including DVD players, portable media players, in car DVD players, and more.
There are over a thousand DivX Certified models available to consumers worldwide from brands such as Sony, Philips and Toshiba. Products that bear the DivX Certified logo have undergone rigorous testing to ensure interoperability, security, and visual quality. DivX Certified products enable consumers to create, play, and share high-quality video content across a range of devices and platforms. More than 50 million DivX Certified devices have been shipped from among the world’s leading brands.
To view GrindTV surf videos in high-quality DivX video and engage with the filmmakers directly, visit the GrindTV channel at https://stage6.divx.com/GrindTV
About GrindTV.com
Created for and by adrenaline junkies, GrindTV.com, a division of PureVideo Networks, Inc., is the premiere destination for extreme and action sports videos. The site features user-generated videos that showcase the most outrageous, untamed, awe-inspiring sports content on the Web, as well as original video and photographs, captured by the GrindTV producers. GrindTV’s library includes footage of surfing, skateboarding, wakeboarding, skiing, BMX, skydiving, and much more. The site offers unique features such as Grind Radio, local surf reports, custom skateboard creation, and various industry resources, in addition to extensive rate, search, share, and profile tools, delivering a complete action sports entertainment and social networking experience.
For more information, please visit www.grindtv.com
About PureVideo Networks, Inc.
Based in El Segundo, CA, PureVideo Networks, Inc. is a leading broadband publisher dedicated to compelling video and the people who produce it. Funded by Softbank Capital, the Company owns and operates the video Web destinations, StupidVideos.com (www.StupidVideos.com) and GrindTV.com (www.GrindTV.com), which collectively serve an audience of over six million unique users a month. Recently, the Company launched PureVideo Search (www.purevideo.com), the Internet’s first meta search engine for video, and the fastest-growing search site on the Web. For more information on PureVideo Networks, please visit: www.purevideonetworks.com
About DivX, Inc.
DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 200 million times in the last four years, including over 60 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application, which is distributed from our website, www.divx.com. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution.
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