POPcast To Create Site For JVC Camcorder Users

New JVC Site to Offer Camera Owners POPcast’s Streaming Media Authoring, Publishing and Broadcasting Services

LAS VEGAS (Nov. 15, 2000) -- POPcast and JVC today announced the completion of an agreement to create a cutting-edge shared video community for users of JVC’s camcorders worldwide.

The announcement was made at the COMDEX/Fall 2000 event, which began Monday in Las Vegas and continues through Friday, Nov. 17. POPcast’s exhibit is located within the Intel Pentium Pavilion, booth 6135.

Under the terms of the one-year agreement, POPcast will create and host all aspects of the JVC Shared Video Community, providing its proprietary streaming media creation and publishing software, media management toolset and complete back-end services in return for undisclosed licensing fees and extensive co-marketing activities. Members of the new community will have the ability to easily create, publish and share rich-media content on the Web using POPcast’s complete array of streaming media services.

“By teaming up with POPcast, JVC intends to marry the high quality videos produced with a JVC camcorder with the broadband technologies provided by POPcast, " said Jerry Barbera, Vice President of JVC Company of America’s Consumer Video Division. "This kind of video community will revolutionize the way we create, view and email videos today."

Every member of JVC’s Shared Video Community can download a customized version of the POPcaster video creation and publishing software and use it to capture, edit, and automatically publish their finished productions into their free 10MB account. From there, members can instantly share their personal Webcasts with their friends, family members and colleagues around the world via POPcast's Personal Broadcast Network. Free services provide for encoding at rates as high as 110 kilobytes-per- second (kbps); members can upgrade their accounts to store 50 megabytes of content encoded at 220 kbps for only $12.95 per month. Playback of the encoded content will include a “Powered by POPcast” graphic linked to www.popcast.com.

The new community is set to launch on or before Dec. 1, 2000.

About POPcast Communications Corporation
POPcast is an infrastructure provider of personal broadcasting services for web portals, broadband ISPs, communications providers and corporations. For more information, please visit popcast.com.

About JVC Company of America
JVC, headquartered in Wayne, New Jersey, is a leading consumer electronics manufacturer, distributing a complete line of video and audio equipment including DVD players and changers, camcorders, VCRs, color televisions, home and portable audio equipment, mobile entertainment and blank tapes. For more information, please visit jvc.com.