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     Steve Foxover
 
Portfolio  - some examples of my previous work.

My software has been used in partnerships and deals with companies including DreamWorks, New Line Cinema, Universal, Disney, ComedyCentral, Detour Magazine, LoadTV, PlusE and United Power in Japan.

A lot of my work has been involved in video on demand and robust delivery of large amounts of data over the Internet. I have created video on demand solutions with unique features for their time, such as video subscriptions. Allowing you to watch pre-cached video's of the latest Reuters news. You could subscribe to different video subscriptions and the latest videos would automatically be politely downloaded in the background to your PC, similar to RSS feeds of today. Allowing you to watch much higher quality video than streaming video. My software featured full error recovery so that interruptions to your Internet connection never caused any loss of data or videos. The publishing system also had built in error recovery allowing you to batch huge amounts of video uploads and have their delivery guaranteed.

Other video on demand solutions I developed featured multi-threaded downloading from multiple sources making it possibly the fasted delivery solution for high quality video over the Internet. I demonstrated this technology to the CEO of Chunghwa Telecom (Taiwan's national Telco). In Taiwan we were able to play full screen high quality progressively downloaded video perfectly while streaming video from the same server in the U.S. was jerky, interrupted and unwatchable.

DreamWorks Time Machine trailer.
 
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Quote from Vodexa, company president.

We have been asked to come in to DreamWorks and talk to the Studio Executives about the capabilities of our technology and this is why, "Speilberg looked at time machine on the web and thought it looked amazing with Vodexa technology".

PlusE touch screen video jukebox

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The PlusE network is a good example of high quality video on a very scaleable system. The system was built to allow publishing of DVD quality (2000 kbps Windows Media Format) full screen video to a central data center and then have this content pushed to many local data stores over a large geographical area. From these local data stores each video terminal is pushed content based on publishing rules stored in a database. The content is stored on the terminals local hard drive to allow DVD playback on thousands of machines simultaneously. 

LoadTV content page

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I have developed plug-ins for various web browsers allowing users to just click on the content and experience seamless video on demand or video subscriptions.

LoadTV video player

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LoadTV was an Internet startup that provided high quality video on demand. For its time in 1999 many people said it was the best quality video available over the Internet. Its revolutionary features included very robust error recovery, the ability to not use bandwidth when other programs were accessing the Internet and video subscriptions. Allowing you to automatically receive and watch the news every morning when you arrive at the office. The company was in the RedHerring.com  top 50.

 
 
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