Ultravid is a leading publisher of streaming video chat software.
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Over the past decade, Ultravid has made several brands of video chat software each one for a slightly different audience or purpose. The reason for this was that in the early days of the Internet, there were several business models that were being experimented with while the video chat business was getting it's bearings and capabilities of the Internet were being explored. A good example of this what when Java first hit the scene. Everyone, including us, praised Java based video systems because it offered way to see video directly on a browser page instead of downloading and installing viewer software as previously required. Ironically, a few years later when Microsoft lost its lawsuit with Sun Microsystems over the Java technology and removed Java support from its Internet Explorer browser, that same Java that revolutionized everything would bring doom to a large percentage of our competition in the video chat software business.

Unfortunately history has repeated itself like this a few times. After Java, Microsoft stopped supporting Real Player based systems, forcing Real Networks to release version G2, but not before most of the people invested in those systems were out of business. More recently, concerns over spy ware and trojan virus' have caused developers to abandon Active X based video chat software. Then in 2006 Microsoft lost yet another lawsuit with Sun Microsystems concerning the way it embeds Java on Internet Explorer, forcing everyone to "click to active and use this control" and making some pages with applets unable to run at all.

Since none of the companies suing microsoft actually make operating systems to compete with Windows, their lawsuits amount to nothing more business suicide with a big cash bonus, and a lot of users left holding the bag. At the time of this writing, January 2007, let me predict in advance that Macromedia will be the next victim. No better yet, look it up for yourself. Since I probably won't update these pages until we release a new product, Macromedia is already history and we are the only surviving exclusively video chat software company on earth. In which case, we told you so.

Choosing Video Chat Software

Today our software has evolved into the culmination of every request ever made since the original concept in 1994. No feature has been deleted, only updated to keep on the forefront of technology. Every customization request made by hundreds of adult chat site owners and thousands of customers has been included into our latest products. I challenge you to think of a plausible feature we do not already have, if you do, I'll personally invest $1000 towards your purchase out of my own pocket, and I'll pay our programmers to add that feature, I'm that confident you won't think of anything.

Today we offer two video chat software options. Hey, wait a minute, I just said that our products offer every feature imaginable, so why the heck are there two products? Shouldn't there be just one? Well no, not really, you see not all of your customers have broadband, some, over 100 million or so are still on dial-up. So even though both of our software lines have the same features, they differ slightly to cater to the connection type of your members. Rather than go down a huge list of features hoping for you to spot the differences, I'm going to point out just the differences on this page and let you go directly to the web site for each product to get the full list of features.

Ultravid.net has full streaming, click to view full screen with synchronized audio preferred by broadband users.

Firecracker Video has five frame per second, static size with no audio preferred by dial-up users.

One product is not better than the other, they are both completely full featured. Deciding which product to use on your site, depends on what type of Internet access your members will have. Sure you could go with the high speed Ultravid.net and a few dial-up users may still manage to get a frame or two, but the experience probably won't bring them back for a return ride. On the other hand, you could go with the slower Firecracker Video product and lack luster with your broadband users.

Certainly with so many years experience making this software, you would think that we would have figured out a way to satisfy both groups, but the result would still lack luster for the broadband users, so as of January 2007 there still isn't a way to do it and look good to everybody. If you could only afford one server, my suggestion would be the Ultravid.net, because Microsoft continues to evolve their video engine, and dial-up is being replaced by broadband. But 100 million potential users is hard to ignore for the next few years.