media founded 1993 founder stephan fitch headquarters redwood city california united states area served worldwide key people stephan fitch president services consulting website thinkingpictures.com thinking pictures is an american multinational corporation specializing in software media and consulting . it was founded in 1993 by stephan fitch and olivier pfeiffer . thinking pictures has introduced a number of innovations in the fields of internet technology interactivity and digital rights management . contents 1 history 2 recent company developments 3 see also 4 references and further reading 5 external links history edit after its foundation in 1993 thinking pictures established partnerships with the media industry . one of its first large projects was an internet broadcast of a rolling stones concert . 20 minutes of video were broadcast at 10 frames per second utilizing the mbone . this was the first time a major artist had broadcast a live concert over the internet paving the way for modern webcasting . 1 thinking pictures was a finalist for the first annual 1995 nii awards in the category of arts and entertainment for this event . thinking pictures continued to broadcast concerts by other recording artists including tori amos and duncan sheik . in 1995 thinking pictures launched rock.com which used a proprietary webcasting technology to provide on demand music videos . the site was one of the first to integrate web based media e commerce and social networking . 2 in 1996 thinking pictures partnered with universal music group to develop a digital content description language . this was integrated into the universal media player interface also developed by thinking pictures and licensed to umg and distributed on over 1 billion music compact discs between 1998 and 2005 . this was a major innovation in digital rights management providing a way for artists to include electronic press kits epks or other information on cds . thinking pictures continued to develop the ump as a platform independent device which could make drm more widely available within the music industry . 3 thinking pictures founder stephan fitch also founded squib international in 1999 gaining a patent for wearable video . fitch partnered with msn which featured the new technology at a conference in may 2000 . 4 in 2000 thinking pictures partnered with a number of national movie theater chains to produce interactive displays for theater lobbies . the thinkpix smart displays are capable of showing full motion video . they also integrate cameras to report on the performance of trailers and posters shown on the display . the smart displays are also capable of interacting with viewers ; planned future upgrades include the ability to read smart cards provided to moviegoers by theaters tailoring trailers and other content to the preferences of individual moviegoers . 5 6 around this time thinking pictures also began developing the proprietary interactive visual content architecture ivca . the technology is intended to use information about audiences and feedback from sensors during a film screening to alter the film giving each audience a tailored narrative and increasing satisfaction with the experience . 7 recent company developments edit thinking pictures is currently collaborating with the new york times on a network of digital newsracks called the timestation digital newsracks . the timestation devices display random samples of a newspaper s content and allow users to manage their online subscriptions . about 50 timestations are deployed mostly in new york city . the wall street journal is also experimenting with the technology . 8 see also edit stephan fitch webcasting digital rights management references and further reading edit rolling stones live on internet both a big deal and a little deal . the new york times november 22 1994 . gillen marilyn a. virtual global parties coming to sw networks . billboard magazine july 1 1995 . interview with stephan fitch . the wall street transcript online february 10 2003 . video clothes brand new idea . kahney leander . wired june 7 2000 . for moving pictures moving posters . the new york times december 12 2002 . blockbuster signs . sign builder illustrated july 2002 . hess michael j. never ending stories . alley cat magazine february 2001 . rosenberg jim . selling print with video . editor and publisher august 2008 . external links edit thinking pictures retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title thinking pictures & oldid 689830970 categories media companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 november 2015 at 17 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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