The impending launch of MediaFrame has got to be interesting. It's a media streaming server (Mpeg-1, with Mpeg-4 soon) and a thin client with programmable UI controls (including a JavaScript API for browser embedding) - it's GPL, and it's end-to-end Java.

The impressive feature list, combined with the portability of Java sounds like a killer app as more of us get our music and movies from the network.

Read more about the launch and existing customers here. (2004-12-06 13:59:41.0) Permalink