"The connection success rates we saw for the NBA game were the best we've seen for a webcast of this size," says Shai Berger, President, Streamcheck. "We've been monitoring live events over the course of the last 6 months and have noticed steady improvements."

According to Streamcheck's quality measurement metrics, Friday night's NBA game had a connection success rate of an astonishing 97.2 percent across the ten cities that were involved. The StreamQ™ rating was B+. (StreamQ™ - Streamcheck's proprietary metric, grades the level of user frustration associated with viewing a stream.)

"Until now, we would see 10 to 20 percent of connection attempts fail during a large event. We're definitely getting closer to making live webcasts ready for mass-market audiences." says Berger.

Ironically, the home team at Friday night's game was the Dallas Mavericks owned by streaming media pioneer Mark Cuban, also an investor in Streamcheck.

Streamcheck's distributed network of Scanners measure streaming quality from more than 15 cities across US, Canada and Europe. Since its launch in the summer of 2000, the Streamcheck system has performed over 3 million checks on streams of all formats and all types: audio and video, high and low bit rate, live and on-demand. Streamcheck can monitor any stream viewable with the RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.

About Streamcheck
Streamcheck provides end-to-end measurement and monitoring solutions for streaming media, helping customers deliver their message with consistent quality and reliability. Streamcheck's family of services provides 24x7 monitoring, diagnostic tools and customizable reports. Streamcheck offers an objective way to demonstrate quality to customers, advertisers and partners. Streamcheck's distributed network of measurement devices ("Scanners") has performed more than 6 million individual checks on streams of all types and covers major cities in the US, Canada and Europe. To learn more, visit www.streamcheck.com.