Intertainment's Ortsbo.com and The VarietyStudio wrap up coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Microsite offers VarietyStudio video interviews and Live & Global coverage complete with multi- language real time subtitling
LOS ANGELES / TORONTO - January 30, 2012 - Intertainment
Media Inc. ("Intertainment" or the
"Company") (TSXV: INT / OTCQX: ITMTF / XETRA FRA:
I4T) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary Ortsbo Inc.
("Ortsbo"), the leader in real time experiential language
services, in partnership with Variety, the world's leading
publication for business entertainment news have wrapped up
its coverage of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and has
produced a microsite with The VarietyStudio video interviews
and Live & Global programming complete with Ortsbo's
proprietary Language Captioning System, providing real-time
subtitling in the user's selected language. The content can
be found at www.liveandglobal.com/sundanceand www.variety.com/festivals/sundance/
The Variety Studio interviews, powered by Ortsbo, feature
such notable entertainers as Richard Gere, Kate Bosworth,
Sigourney Weaver, Paul Simon, Ice-T, Paul Giamatti, Lou
Diamond Phillips, Joshua Jackson, William H. Macy, David
Duchovny and many other leading celebrities. The Live &
Global platform attracted an audience from around the world
with a 45 minute live video discussion with the legendary
Stan Lee, hosted by Ortsbo spokesman and business partner,
Gene Simmons.
Variety and Ortsbo are planning to partner and present a
number of key global entertainment events and conferences in
2012. Additional information will be announced as it becomes
available.
Ortsbo's new proprietary service; multi-lingual closed
captioning, or Ortsbo's Language Captioning System was
initially launched at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in
early January in partnership with Variety's Entertainment
Summit. The system allows viewers to watch video broadcasts,
and also view an accompanying language real time text stream,
like closed captioning found on television broadcasts, but in
their personally selected choice of over 50 languages. This
game-changing proprietary system, which is part of Ortsbo's
Live & Global platform, provides the ability for universal
language broadcasting on a global basis, regardless of the
native language of the broadcaster, potentially changing the
face of ethnic, cultural, sports, entertainment, business and
other forms of online, video and television live and
pre-recorded broadcast programming.
Once a user reaches the web broadcast page, the Language
Captioning System will default to the user's pre-set system
language. Along with video content, users can also select the
language of their choice from an on-page drop down menu. The
system will automatically deliver a "real time" effective
stream of "closed captioning" in the user's chosen
language.
"The Sundance Film Festival was a resounding success for
Ortsbo as our partnership with Variety took on a whole new
level as we helped create and archive exceptional content
with the Festival's leading celebrities along with our
Language Captioning System," said David Lucatch, CEO of
Intertainment
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Marvel Studios announced that they will be sponsoring a
Global Twitter Chat on Tuesday, January 31,
2012 at 11 a.m. PST with cast members and the director of
their highly anticipated action-adventure "Marvel's The
Avengers," opening in theaters on May 4, 2012. The 30-minute
live tweeting event features writer/director Joss Whedon and
cast members Tom Hiddleston and Clark Gregg.
Fans around the world will be able to participate in the Q&A
on Twitter by using the @Avengers handle and the #Avengers
hashtag. Participating fans will have the opportunity to see
a 10-second tease of the
30-second Super Bowl spot that will air during Super Bowl
XLVI on February 5 on NBC. They will also
have a chance to answer "Avengers" trivia for a chance to win
"Avengers" prize packs.
International fans will be able to submit questions for the
talent in their native language through a global
translation tool provided by Ortsbo.com. The chat will be
moderated by Marvel's @Agent_M.
Follow @Avengers on Twitter for more details. More on
Marvel.com:
http://marvel.com/news/story/18016/marvels_the_avengers_assemble_on_twitter#ixzz1krfSrapf
As previously announced, Intertainment Media Inc. continues
to initiate the process to "spin out" Ortsbo Inc. as an
independent structure for listing on senior Exchanges in
Canada and the United States. This transaction will be
subject to all applicable board, shareholder and regulatory
approvals.
To become a Facebook Fan of Ortsbo, sign up at www.facebook.com/ortsbo
Follow Ortsbo on Twitter
For the Company's corporate blog, please visit www.intertainmentmedia.com/blog
Variety is the leading publication for business entertainment news, recognized and respected throughout the world of show business. The Variety Group - Daily Variety, Daily Variety Gotham, Weekly Variety and Variety.com - are all owned by Reed Business Information (RBI), the largest business publisher in the U.S. RBI is a member of the Reed Elsevier Group plc (NYSE: RUK) (NYSE: ENL).
About Ortsbo Inc. www.ortsbo.com
With over 40 Million
monthly users in over 170 countries and territories, Ortsbo
( www.ortsbo.com)
enables real-time conversational translation in over 50
languages and seamlessly integrates with today's most
popular social media platforms.
Ortsbo's flagship product
for social media ( www.ortsbo.com) supports global
communications with instant translation capability, real time
multi-lingual social media chat connects to PC and Mac
computers, mobile browsers as well as all major chat
platforms including MSN, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!
and others.
Ortsbo allows users to communicate with family, friends and
colleagues around the world, providing users with the ability
to break down language and cultural barriers through its easy
to use, language centric interface.
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Ortsbo also provides plug-in email translation capabilities
for Microsoft Outlook.
Ortsbo's Live & Global platform offers a unique solution for
broadcasting events to a global audience, with video and real
time, multi-lingual chat. Ortsbo currently hold the Guinness
World Record for the most nationalities in an online
chat.
International rock legend, accomplished global entrepreneur
and one of the world's most recognized personalities, Gene
Simmons has endorsed Ortsbo.com, having signed on as a
business partner and to serve as Ortsbo's official
spokesperson.
Two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash to become an official
spokesperson for Ortsbo. Leading Ortsbo's global sports fan
program, Nash will present and participate in a number of
online fan chats with international athletes from a number of
sports disciplines.
With headquarters in Los Angeles, CA and Toronto, Canada
region, with offices in New York and San Mateo, CA, Ortsbo
Inc. is a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc. a publicly
listed company on the Toronto Venture Exchange under the
symbol "INT" (TSXV:INT) and traded in the US on the OTCQX
under the symbol "ITMTF". Intertainment is also traded in
Europe, on the Frankfurt Exchange on the XETRA trading
platform under the symbol "I4T".
David Lucatch, CEO
Tel: 800-395-9943 / 905-763-3510
Email: info@intertainmentmedia.com
To learn more, visit: www.ortsbo.com
To learn more, visit: www.intertainmentmedia.com
Email: mcampe@sspr.com
Web site: www.sspr.com
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profitability; the need to obtain required approvals from
regulatory authorities; the Corporation's lack of product
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changes; dependence on the Internet; demand for the
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