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- Subject: Desktop Video Pioneers Launch PLAY
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 94 04:03:03 -0500
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- San Francisco, CA - Former NewTek senior staff members who left the Kansas
- company earlier this year have ended industry speculation by unveiling their ne
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- venture, 'PLAY'. "Launching the Video Toaster and with it the desktop video
- industry over the last seven years was a fantastic adventure," commented PLAY
- President Paul Montgomery, "Along the way we discovered some very compelling
- opportunities that went beyond one technology or even one platform. PLAY was
- formed to take advantage of those opportunities." The company, which consists
- primarily of Californians who relocated to Kansas to build NewTek, is based in
- San Francisco.
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- "In the mid-eighties NewTek Vice-President and visionary Paul Montgomery
- assembled a very unique team from around the world." said Tom Egan, senior
- editor for Channel 4000, the leading desktop video news service. "With their
- accomplishments in building this industry at NewTek, they're my pick for the
- 'desktop video Dream Team'. I'm expecting a lot from this group." PLAY features
- Emmy-award winning members of the Video Toaster R & D team, including NewTek's
- former Head of Softwawre Development, Steve Hartford, video hardware and
- software guru, Ken Turcotte, and Toaster hardware design engineer, Brad
- Carvey. Other PLAY founders include NewTek's former Director of Marketing,
- Mark Randall, plus Product Development Manager and Hollywood technology
- pioneer, Daniel Kaye. Rounding out the PLAY executive team is a face known
- to millions, Kiki Stockhammer, the video industry's well-known celebrity
- spokesperson.
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- PLAY will announce it's first strategic relationship at a special event on
- Sunday, March 20th at 7:00 P.M. in the Julius Room of Caesars Palace, Las
- Vegas. "We feel the 'information superhighway' and desktop video are
- desinted to collide sooner than anyone thinks" said Montgomery, "PLAY and
- our new partner Private Channels are perfectly positioned to provide the
- technology, content and distribution needed to realize the dream of
- 'video-on-demand'."
-