Director provides our mutual customers with the tools they need to take full advantage of TV-quality video on the Internet. The version 1.7 API adds flexibility to the SightPath e. Director system by enabling customers to use their own user interface to control content and distribution. Expanded Video Formats Version 1.7 of e. Director includes expanded support for NTSC and PAL formats.
Enterprises can use e.
Director to play video to desktops or NTSC and PAL monitors. The GUI allows enterprises to choose NTSC or PAL playback, build playlists of media files and stop, start, play, pause, and loop commands. These new features allow enterprise customers to easily playback to either desktops or TV monitors and tightly control messages in kiosks, video walls, showrooms, conference rooms and CATV head-ends anywhere in the world. Inc. SightPath, formed in 1998 by MIT technologists and backed by leading technology investors Greylock, Intel, and Pilot House, is a leading supplier of Web content delivery solutions to Global 2000 enterprises, network providers and content companies. Now recognized as a major wave in the Internet's evolution, Web content delivery, or content routing, adds intelligence to the network, routes requests to the best source, utilizes bandwidth more efficiently and dynamically adapts to the changing conditions on the network.