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From breaking news, weather and sports to music videos and promotional entertainment trailers, the consumption of digital media is quickly becoming a mobile phenomenon.

Mobile operators and content providers are challenged to stay one step ahead of the rapidly growing subscriber expectations for dynamic, original content. And of course, as the number of cellular devices continues to proliferate, subscribers expect - and operators demand - that the content be fully customized to meet their specific screen size, color depth, memory, resolution and network configuration - among other variables.

The proliferation of the media-rich content industry is netting big profits for operators and mobile content providers. By 2007, the niche is forecasted to reach revenues of more than $44 billion. To manage costs, increase operational efficiency and improve technical quality, content providers are increasingly turning to Wireless ASP. The trend is clear: by 2010, two-thirds of those content providers will use a WASP.

Why Volas Entertainment?
Volas Entertainment sits atop the WASP trend, with its best-in-breed technology, unparalleled customer service, and flexible pricing and payment plans.




Technology

Volas Entertainment is a designated reseller of Adamind MediaSpire, a state-of-the-art content adaptation engine, developed to support the most advanced formats and CODECs of the mobile world. With the Adamind engine, Volas Entertainment ensures its customers full content adaptation functionality and service interoperability to fit the profile of any end-user device, network or content source.

With Volas' transcoding, your subscribers are able to easily download and share content and media-rich messages without having to worry about device capabilities. This seamless, integrated experience -- unparalleled in the wireless world -- includes:

• Device-based adaptation of complex content to optimize the user experience on each device
• Complete conversion matrix, supporting all types of media formats, including content services specific formats (e.g., wallpapers, screensavers and more)
• Support for state-of-the-art mobile formats and codecs
• On-the-fly content adaptation for dynamic content
• Offline content adaptation for batch versioning and content preparation
• Batch processing of multiple media elements
• DRM package, compatible with OMA DRM 1.0 and 2.0
• Smart cropping tools to create different edits, in different dimensions, from of each source media
• Branding, advertisement and preview packages - allowing on-the-fly context dependant rendering of
  brand elements into media, and the automatic creation of preview limited versions
• Scalable, Telco-grade system supporting high availability, clustering and extensive management
  (SNMP), run on industry standard hardware and OS (Sun Solaris or Linux)
• Rich device repository database, with over 100 multimedia related attributes for each device, regularly updated through Adamind device provisioning and testing service

Service

Volas Entertainment's transcoding technology saves you countless hours in adapting your content. Instead of wasting the talents of your graphic designers on running transcoding programs, you can allow them to focus on what they do best: creating the media-rich content that your subscribers want.

Volas' process is fully automated; we build an individual profile for each client based on either the network provider(s) or targeted devices they use. Then it's as easy as 1-2-3. 1) The content provider uploads the content onto a secured FTP site. 2) Volas pulls the content into our content adaptation tools and uploads your profile 3) We upload the transcoded content back onto the FTP site for your easy access.


Pricing

Content providers require a streamlined business model that allows them to maximize profits while minimizing expenses. Volas Entertainment is the perfect solution. By outsourcing your transcoding, you save money, time and resources, allowing you to concentrate on what you do best: creating original, media-rich content!

Volas' prices are highly competitive. And outsourcing not only saves money on the individual transaction, but also spares companies costly capital expenditures associated with transcoding. As the market continues to diversify, you can be confident that Volas will stay ahead of the curve. New devices, attributes, formats, codecs and operator/network profiles will automatically be included in our databases, so potential users won't ever have to wait for your content.

Volas Entertainment builds flexible, individual payment plans for each customer to meet the company's specific needs - whether it's a one-time transaction or an ongoing retainer contract. (Of course, our customers are so satisfied with Volas' quality, turn-around and customer service, that most have engaged us in an ongoing business relationship.)