Jilion intros cloud-based HTML5 video player

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND: Jilion has announced the commercialization and immediate availability of SublimeVideo, a cloud-based HTML5 video player service.

Created in early 2010 to demo Jilion's HTML5 skills, SublimeVideo Player rapidly generated huge interest worldwide said a press release.

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"We have been amazed by the response, gaining over 9,000 twitter followers and more than 1 million unique visitors to our demo page. All without spending a dime on marketing," said Zeno Crivelli, Jilion's co-founder and lead developer.

"We knew the player was sleek and functional, but we wanted to push the envelope much further to be able to deliver our customers with all the benefits of HTML5, without any of the associated complexity," said Mehdi Aminian, Jilion's co-founder.

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To achieve that goal Jilion decided in April 2010 to build a cloud-based service platform that automatically provides all its customers with the latest and most widely compatible version of SublimeVideo Player.

"With the ever growing variety of browsers and devices out there, this is a truly beautiful approach: If we receive bug reports we often ask users to simply reload their page to show them the problem has been fixed! It never ceases to amaze them, and us!" added Zeno Crivelli.

Today, after a successful 6-month beta period with thousands of participating sites, over 50 transparent player updates and millions of video page views, SublimeVideo is ready for prime-time added the release.