Imagine a Web interface that allows thousands of Internet users to independently view and navigate their way through live events or archived recordings streamed online.

Wheaton, IL- based LiveOnTheNet makes this field of stream dreams a reality with a deal it just cut with Oak Ridge, TN-based Internet Pictures Corporation (Nasdaq: IPIX) today.

With this agreement, LiveOnTheNet will integrate iPIX Movies technology into the company's automated Showbot webcasting system.

With the iPIX Movies enhancement, LiveOnTheNet Showbots will allow enables viewers to change the point of view, zoom in on a favorite item, or zoom out for a wider perspective. Navigating with a mouse, LCD goggles, touch-screen or other pointing devices, viewers can look in any direction of the movie as if they were there.

"The power of the growing broadband Internet is that it will allow people to have more personalized and compelling experiences online," explained Paul Tatro CEO of LiveOnTheNet. "Unlike TV, with iPIX Movies we are transporting the user into an event and allowing them to control what they see. By integrating iPIX Movie technology into the Showbot framework, we're able to provide a unique interactive experience that engages and holds the viewer's attention. This fulfills the promise of the Internet for the viewer as well as the advertiser and gives LiveOnTheNet a competitive edge."

Beginning in March, LiveOnTheNet will offer their iPIX-enhanced Showbots to the growing number of Webcasters worldwide. Using the enhanced capabilities of their patented Showbot system, as well as the company's "Focused Eyes" ad insertion technology and "Fame" subscriber-based advertising program, LiveOnTheNet is attracting newspapers and education markets as well as the entertainment industry.

LiveOnTheNet is a Video Streaming service provider (VSP) whose patented platforms can acquire and stream live content for the Internet at production costs as low as $30 per hour. It is headquartered in Wheaton, Illinois, with production studios and operational centers in Nashville, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia and Huntsville, Alabama. LiveOnTheNet is a member of publicly traded Divine interVentures (Nasdaq: DVIN).