VideoTile has evolved from the world of corporate film and broadcast television dating back to 1979 when VideoTileâs production director David E. Hines formed a production company to take advantage of the then new video recording technologies. Throughout the 80âs, 90âs and early 2000âs the company, then called âMillenniavisionâ, produced documentary style programs for the ITV network and large corporate organisations both in the UK and USA. The company also maintained offices in Seward Street, Hollywood, CA in addition to its UK production base. In 1997 in California in association with Internet specialists WareNet, Hines came up with the concept of embedding video content into a web page in a way that it appeared to be functioning as a much larger canvas. Dubbed 'VideoTile' the first project involved the production of an Internet commercial demonstrating an in car navigation system.
Hines and his colleagues later patented the technique (United States...
