Press Release: Photo sharing site dotPhoto’s
‘video-catching’ software lets users email their camera phone videos
directly to a dotPhoto online account, regardless of wireless carrier
West Trenton, N.J.—September 21,
2005—Add this to your list of cool cell phone tricks: now just about
anyone with a video-enabled cell phone can instantly send video from their cell
phone to an online account to share with family and friends. It’s the
result of a new service offering from dotPhoto, the photo sharing site that
somehow always seems to beat the big guys to the punch with the latest and
greatest innovations with images and personal memories.
This time, they’re leading the way in cell
phone video, which, now that we all have camera phones, looks to be the next big
thing in mobile communications. The new service allows video phone users on the
country’s biggest wireless carriers to directly email their videos from
their handset to an online dotPhoto account. You don’t need a wire. You
don’t need to download the video first to a memory card. You don’t
even have to email it to your home PC to then upload. Rather, the video goes
directly to your online account where you can easily send all those great
moments to family and friends. Just imagine: Now it’s easy to save and
share video of a child’s first step, a daughter’s first soccer goal,
or the kids leaving the house for the first day of school (although, we suspect
that most of these cool new video phones are being used by 20-somethings to
embarrass each other with video of what they did last
night).
The big news behind the dotPhoto
offering is its wide applicability. The service works with the “big
four” cell phone carriers and is compatible with the most common video
formats, or codecs, including 3GP, WMV, QT, AVI, MOV, MP4, 3G2, and
MPG.
But enough of the techno speak. What
this all means is that cell phone video just became really easy to use, share,
and save. Just point, shoot, email, and you’re ready to start sending
those short videos to everyone on the planet. While many wireless phone users
can already share videos phone-to-phone, many have no means of saving videos
long-term. dotPhoto’s video upload service allows cell phone users to save
videos online, and share them with friends and family anywhere, even if they are
using incompatible cell phone platforms or over the Internet.
The service requires no special
software, and costs just $1.99 per month for unlimited storage of videos and
photos that last forever—so your camera phone’s memory will never
fill up. dotPhoto preserves your images on secure and redundant servers
utilizing RAID technology—which means your photos and videos are much
safer at www.dotPhoto.com than on typical home hard drives with lifetimes of
three years or less.
For more information
on dotPhoto and all of its online digital photo capabilities, such as sharing,
printing, saving, and creating memories, please visit us online at
www.dotPhoto.com or contact Kathryn O’Connor at 610-642-8253, ext. 54 or
Kathryn@GregoryFCA.com.
About dotPhoto,
Inc.
dotPhoto, Inc. (www.dotPhoto.com) is
transforming the way people enjoy, share, preserve, and profit from their
digital images. As the Internet’s premiere multimedia and photo sharing
community, the company’s Web site offers the most comprehensive suite of
digital imaging and multimedia tools available anywhere. These include the
dotPhoto Show, an easy-to-use photo slide show that users can customize with
background music, voice narration, graphics, and special effects;
dotPhoto’s Photo Marketplace, where anyone can sell their photos for a
profit; photo Yearbooks and Minibooks, and customized photo printing in a
variety of sizes, and on T-shirts, mugs, posters, and other
merchandise.
Posted: Wed - September 21, 2005 at 04:35 PM