Strike.TV officially launched its much-anticipated online network, featuring original HD Web videos from well-known Hollywood creators. The portal represents the first formal effort to bring the writers of some of Hollywood’s most successful and popular franchises to the world of online video. The company will operate a programmed format and currently has over forty original Web series and shorts, which encompass a wide variety of genres that will roll out daily on www.Strike.TV.

Strike.TV’s Web series will stream in HD with the help of BitGravity Inc., a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and Episodic which provides the video player that is the user interface for Strike.TV.

Beyond Strike.TV’s on-site audience, the content will be super-syndicated to huge built-in audiences on YouTube and Joost; and available for television viewing via the Tivo video download service. The Strike.TV website allows full-screen views, comments, fan forums and a virtual community to be built around each show via the website, as well as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter that will consistently update friends and fans and help build a one-to-one relationship between creators and viewers.

In keeping with Strike.TV’s roots as a charity whose purpose was to help individuals impacted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, the first three months of ad revenue profits, with help from BitGravity and Episodic, will be donated to the Entertainment Assistance Program (EAP) of The Actors Fund.

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