MILESTONES FOR TRI-VISION INTERNATIONAL LTD.
ALBERTA STOCK EXCHANGE SYMBOL TVL
FALL 1996 - Tri-Vision Set To Launch Its World-First V-Chip Product In The
Consumer Market.
SEPTEMBER 1996 - Canadian cable distribution industry deadline for making available
affordable V-Chip devices for subscribers.
SEPTEMBER 1996 - Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission
deadline for broadcasters to encode V-Chip-based ratings for violence and other
content in the programs they broadcast. U.S. broadcasters are set to follow in January,
1997.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1996 - USA TV INDUSTRY BODY REQUESTS
TRI-VISION'S V-CHIP DECODER. Tri-Vision Electronics Inc. has been asked to
supply a model of its ground breaking V-Chip Decoder to North America's premier
television research facility, Cable Lab, it announced today.
AUGUST 19, 1996 - Tri-Vision joins Nexsys Commtech International Inc. in
development of the "Billing Chip", a state-of-the-art, wireless billing system which
eliminates printed bills and provides home-users access to utility accounts and account
information and which enables emergency medical and security alerts.
AUGUST 12, 1996 - Videotron increase its purchase orders for the year to
$2.5-million in infra-red remote controls, more than all of Tri-Vision's sales in this
product area for 1995 combined.
AUGUST 9, 1996 - V-Chip Decoder developments prove a highlight as Tri-Vision
announces results of its Year in Review, which include revenues of $6.2 million for the
fiscal year and a number of new orders and memorandums of understanding received in
excess of $20-million through the latter part of fiscal 1996.
JULY 24, 1996 - Tri-Vision Director Professor Tim Collings, the acclaimed V-Chip
inventor, presents the V-Chip Decoder to a meeting of top industry engineers and
executives at North America's cable and broadcast television research facility, Cable
Lab, just outside Denver, Colorado. Cable Lab officials were extremely impressed with
the V-Chip Decoder and has requested a model to demonstrate to visiting industry
members.
JUNE 18, 1996 - Executive Vice-President of Sales, Marketing and Programming for
Rogers Cablesystems Ltd., Mr. Rudi Engel, joins Tri-Vision's Board of Directors along
with Mr. Bruce Daley, founding partner of legal firm Daley, Byers, in Toronto, Ontario.
JUNE 3, 1996 - Tri-Vision's ground breaking V-Chip Decoder demonstrated to an
international audience for the first time, being shown at the Canadian National Cable
Television Exhibition in Edmonton, Alberta.
MAY 31,1996 - Acclaimed V-Chip Inventor, Professor Tim Collings, joins Tri-Vision's
Board of Directors.
MAY 29, 1996 - Tri-Vision launches North American V-Chip Decoder information
campaign and investor relations program through high technology investor relations
specialists Century Communications Corporation of Vancouver, British Columbia.
MAY 10, 1996 - Tri-Vision announces it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement for
Canada to further develop V-Chip technology.
FEBRUARY 8, 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into law the requirement that all
new television sets must be equipped with the V-Chip device by 1998. Europe and
other regions consider similar legislation.
JANUARY 22, 1996 - Tri-Vision achieves a major U.S. breakthrough with its single
largest order to date for 430,000 infra-red remote control units from Integrity Cable of
Milton, Florida.
JANUARY 15, 1996 - Videoway Communications, a division of Canadian cable giant
Videotron in Montreal, Quebec, place a purchase order for 100,000 infra-red hand
remote control units.
JANUARY 8, 1996 - Tri-Vision receives Letter of Intent worth $4-million with an initial
purchase order to supply cable television hardware and software products -to
InfoHighway (PVT) -Ltd. of Karachi, Pakistan.
JANUARY 2, 1996 - Purchase order from Canada's largest cable network operator
Rogers Cablesystems to supply 100,000 infra-red universal hand-held remote control
units.
DECEMBER 20, 1995 - Contracts worth $20-million over three years received,
including major new orders and Letters of Intent from cable companies in Canada, the
United States as well as Pakistan and India.
DECEMBER 1, 1995 - Tri-Vision opens a sales office in County Durham in the United
Kingdom to serve the UK and EU client base.
MARCH 5, 1993 - Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee (TVILL) listed on The Alberta
Stock Exchange under the symbol TVL. Tri-Vision Electronics Inc. became a
wholly-owned subsidiary of TVILL.
MAY 10, 1990 - The Company changed its name from "Tri-Vision Electronics
Industries Inc." to "Tri-Vision Electronics Inc." (TVEI).
APRIL 17, 1986 - The Company was incorporated, pursuant to t-he laws of Ontario,
on-, by its founder and current CEO, Najmul H. Siddiqui.
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