By using our own technology rather than off-the-shelf solutions, we provide unmatched quality virtual tours; excellent pictures, yet very fast downloading. And the viewing software is already installed in over 98% of computers.

You can be sure of a total compatibility with Windows, Macintosh and Unix browsers. This is not always true for Java. Bugs have been scourging on every platform.

It starts much faster than Java (in Internet Explorer, the flash effect is the first thing you see on the web page, during the initialization phase). On Netscape, Java applets could take a very long time to initialize, depending on how they are programmed and often cause computer crashes.

The company behind Flash, Macromedia, does a serious effort to support their users and to spread around the Flash plug-in. Sun Microsystems, neglects their Java applet users and have made no serious efforts to make Java fully compatible. That is, until now that Java applets have been included in their crusade against Microsoft.

Microsoft is more friendly orientated to Flash. The Flash plug-in is even distributed with Windows XP. Microsoft is trying to isolate Java by different actions, such as not including their own Java Virtual Machine in Windows XP, a very serious blow to the Java applet developer community. Because you need the Java Virtual Machine to run anything that has java programming in it including java based virtual tours.

Other benefits for using our tour include:

1. fully customizable

2. email ready

3. small file size

4. streaming download

5. multi platform compatible (will not cause computer crashes)

6. you can include partial or still pictures in the tour

7. affordable, reasonably priced compared to our competition

8. with us you do not need to wait 2 weeks to have your tour created

Compare us to with the competition

 

	Mkjtour - iPIX®*, Homebase* comparison	our Tour	iPIX®*	Homebase*
1.	Price per virtual tour	$29 a month	$99.95+ per tour	$169+49 LISTING FEE
2.	Number of images per standard tour (iPIX®* charges $20 for each image over the standard 4 images)	60	4	4
3.	Time required to create and post the tour to the Web	instantly	1-2 weeks	?
4.	Streaming download of tour	Yes	NO	NO
5.	Text descriptions on each image	Yes	NO	NO
7.	Tour includes the agent's photo, contact information, and broker's logo	Yes	NO	NO
8.	Need to download viewer to view tours	No	Yes	Yes
9.	Include neighborhood photos for the same price	Yes	NO	NO
10.	The virtual tour can include still images, panoramic wide angle images, AND 360° images	Yes	NO	NO
11.	Requires scheduling and coordinating an onsite photo session with a photographer, the agent and the seller	NO	Yes	YES
12.	Send tour by diskette or email	free	$29.95	NO
13.	Transparent tours that downloads on the page while customer is reading the house info	Yes	NO	NO
14.	The ability to have a full house tour, that includes many still pictures	Yes	NO	NO

* Homestore.com recently purchased the rights to iPIX virtual tours for the U.S. residential real estate industry.
iPIX tours are now called HomeTour 360° tours in the USA.

*Homebase is a company of trader.com