PlayMedia^® is a market leader in the design and development of standards-based audiovisual rendering software.

PlayMedia's mission is to create core Software, Systems, Framworks and related Technologies, which enable rapid application development and add value to digital audiovisual information and entertainment distribution systems.

PlayMedia^® conducts its business in two primary areas:

1. Consultative Engineering:  Firms such as the original Napster and DMX Music, needed to distribute audiovisual content under unique and challenging conditions such as high-security or mulitple channels and zones contracted with PlayMedia to develop software and systems specific to their needs.

2. Research, Development and Licensing of Core Technologies:  PlayMedia is one of the leading licensors or provisioners of MPEG-related audiovisual algorithms, including the MP3, MPEG-4, VCD and soon AAC standards.  

• Support for proprietary codecs such as Windows^® Media Format are in development.  Our multi-codec and multi-platform AMPhibian^® Framework will enable developers, OEM's and ODM's to deliver rapid applications offering a mulitplicity of features and effects across a diverse spectrum of devices while enabling consistency and qulaity in the consumer experience.
  
  PlayMedia's clients, licensees and sublicensors include:
• Intel^® Corporation
• News Corp's DirecTV^®, the global satellite TV leader
• DMX Music, Inc., the world's largest business-to-business music distribution company
• ST Microelectronics, one of the world's largest maker of integrated circuits.
• TimeWarner, the world's largest media company.
• AOL, Inc., one of the largest ISP's in the world
• Hughes Network Systems, operator of one of the world's largest satellite data networks. 
• Napster, Inc., maker of the most-downloaded Internet application in history.
  
  Music rendered by PlayMedia technologies can be heard around the world from leading retailers like Nordstrom's, Nike and Marks & Spencer, to world-class banks like JP Morgan Chase and top hotel chains such as Sheraton.  If you walk into a McDonald's, Pizza Hut or Burger King, chances are the in-store music is rendered by PSI technology.
  
  PlayMedia created the "AMP in WinAmp" (one of th world's most popular media players) and distributes the AMP^® MP3 Decoder Player.  AMP^® has also been licensed to other popular media playback clients and powered the original Napster's music player - once the world's most downloaded application..
  
  PlayMedia was founded in January of 1998 by experts in audiovisual systems, software development, digital security/cryptography, content marketing and design.
  
  PlayMedia is privately held and generates its revenues from our consultative engineering services, technology licensing and research & development on behalf of leading companies and governments around the world.
    
  Business operations are headquartered in the United States with R&D facilities in multple locations aroun the World.