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TVersity Inc., the pioneer in delivering Internet and home media to televisions and mobile devices, today announced a new set of features that simplifies sharing of multimedia content with friends and family.

“Sharing photos and home videos with friends and family is one of the most painful experiences for consumers these days”, said Ronen Mizrahi, President of TVersity Inc., “With TVersity it is now easy to publish an entire folder as an RSS or Podcast feed and email the subscription URL to a designated recipient, who may use any RSS reader (like Firefox) or Podcast manager (like iTunes or TVersity) to subscribe to this content”.

TVersity is once again setting the bar for media servers by being the first to support both the publishing of RSS feeds and the subscription to them. This makes it possible to pair two remote installations of the TVersity server and have them synchronize a folder published by one server with the other. When the user on the publishing side adds a file to the folder, it is automatically added to and downloaded by the subscriber. TVersity can also handle nested RSS feeds, making it possible to synchronize folder hierarchies (and even an entire media library) via a single subscription.

“Our goal is to empower users to personalize their entertainment experience and to extend this experience beyond the PC to TVs and to a wide range of connected devices and applications”, said Mr. Mizrahi, “As users invest more time in organizing and personalizing their favorite content, they essentially become the new programmers and they expect to have access to their programming from any multimedia capable device or application, RSS readers and Podcast managers are the latest additions to the lineup of devices and applications to which TVersity can serve multimedia content”.

TVersity is available now for free download at www.tversity.com

About TVersity Inc.
TVersity is empowering individuals to organize and personalize their home and Internet multimedia collection (audio, video and images) and is enabling universal access to it anywhere (at the home or on the go) anytime and from any device. TVersity is a privately held company in Tenafly, NJ. For more information about TVersity, please visit www.tversity.com.

We thought you would like to know that recently TVersity has been picked up by the press and it has received a few very nice mentions.

We have been delivering the best UPnP Media Server for over a year now and yet there seems to be very little interest in the press with respect to UPnP and devices and applications that deliver digital home solutions based on it. The exceptions here were CodeBetter.com and GamesFirst!.

In contrast, the recently added support for mobile devices and specifically for the Sony PSP had immediately earned us coverage.

Here are a few recent examples:
Jim Karpen's Web Guide
Digital Trends
PSP Updates

For the full list please check http://tversity.com/press.html

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It is nice to see someone that actually does something about the DRM conundrum and not just talk about it. The good folks at DefectiveByDesign.org plan to go out to Apple stores in large cities over this weekend and warn customers about the pitfalls of DRM.

In the two weeks since the launch of DefectiveByDesign.org they have already managed to acquire over 2000 members. I wish them luck and success because they are out there fighting for our freedom as a society.

I said it before and I will say it again, as more and more aspects of our lives go virtual, digital, cyber, (you get the idea) we should allocate more of our attention to our freedoms in this new reality. While most of us are concerned only with the physical world, we spend a good chunk of our waking hours online or with our computers and so why are these freedoms less important? Would you agree to let the record companies monitor how and where you listen to a CD you bought? Why do you let them do it for a song you bought online?

Of-course I for one, think that the DRM problem will go away even if we do nothing because of the laws of capitalism. It just makes great business sense to compete with traditional media outlets by eliminating DRM and so at some point it has to happen. That is of-course unless their lobby in Washington throws over the government and announce the head of the RIAA as the ruler of America and from their it is the world... :)

Thankfully the folks at the RIAA are helping us eliminate DRM by making one stupid move after the other. The latest one was going after Pirate Bay (in a country where the maximum punishment by law for copyright violation is a small fine) and the previous one was suing satellite radio.