Livedrive launches automated video streaming for all cloud storage customers

Livedrive, an award winning provider of online backup and cloud storage solutions, today announced that it has launched a free video streaming service, letting customers stream their videos to any web browser or mobile device.
 
Aug. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- Livedrive’s new video streaming feature lets all of their cloud storage customers instantly play back any video that they’ve uploaded to their Livedrive account.  The service will play back a large range of non-DRM video formats – including AVIs, WMVs, MPEG, MKV and QuickTime – and automatically converts and streams them on the fly.  The customer doesn’t need to convert or prepare the videos in advance, and can play back even HD video files.

The customer can access their video from any web browser by logging into their Livedrive account, or from their mobile device using Livedrive’s free apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.  Mobile devices will stream video over both 3G and WiFi, allowing customers to access their videos even when they’re away from their home or office.

Andrew Michael, Livedrive’s founder and CEO, said of the announcement: “Livedrive have always believed that cloud storage is just a technology and is not too exciting for users in itself. What matters is how users are allowed to use their storage once they’ve got their files up into the cloud – and we’ve worked hard to make Livedrive into a service that helps customers set their files free, not just store them.  The video streaming is the icing on the cake for us – we’ve always had music streaming, document viewers, photo editors and more built into our web portal – and video was really the final big format that needed addressing.”

Jamie Brown, Product Manager at Livedrive, said: “After photos and Office documents, videos are the most common format that people store with Livedrive. And with video cameras now a part of every Smartphone out there, they’re as important to us as our pictures.  Our new video streaming is so easy to use – there’s nothing the customer needs to do, it just works – your video’s there and you just press play.   We think that this new technology is going to be a very exciting part of our service for years to come.”

Livedrive provides three online storage products.  Livedrive Backup makes it easy to backup your files safely online, and comes with unlimited online storage space; Livedrive Briefcase syncs files between your computers, and lets you access your files from anywhere online; and Livedrive for Business provides simple cloud backup, collaboration, sharing and remote access for small businesses.  All three products now enable video streaming.

About Livedrive

Livedrive is creating technology that will revolutionize the way people store and access their files, photos, music, videos and other digital content. Livedrive is backed by Andrew Michael, founder of Fasthosts Internet Limited, the UK's largest and most successful Internet hosting company, which he sold in 2006 for over $120m. For more information, go to www.livedrive.com and see press resources at www.livedrive.com/press

Press contact

Jamie Brown, Livedrive Internet
press@livedrive.com

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