USA Video Interactive to Lead Panel at StreamingMediaWest Conference Company Now Included on 'Streaming Media Index'
MYSTIC, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000--USA Video Interactive (OTCBB: USVO; CDNX: US; www.usvo.com) has been asked to lead a panel on the opening day of next week's StreamingMediaWest conference, the world's largest exhibition for streaming, broadband and content companies. Matthew Kinnaman, Vice President of Strategic Innovation for USA Video Interactive, will moderate the panel entitled, ``Generating Revenue with B to B Media - How to Make a Profit with your Business Content,'' focusing on successful business models for generating revenues from B-to-B media.
USA Video Interactive also has been notified that it is now included on StreamingMedia.com's prestigious ``Streaming Media Index'' of leading companies in the field (www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=6557). StreamingMedia.com covers these companies in its articles and analyses.
As previously announced, USA Video Interactive will demonstrate its new, proprietary Wavelet compression technology at the conference and will also be joined in its booth by EMC (NYSE: EMC - news) representatives in unveiling its new, high-performance line of media streaming servers, the Hurricane 2 MediaCaster(TM), that provide USA Video Interactive's patented video-on-demand and streaming video technology to customers with unparalleled levels of information reliability, availability and scalability.
The panel being moderated by USA Video Interactive will be held at Parkside Hall B at 5:05PM at the San Jose Convention Center on Tuesday, December 12, the opening day of the three-day conference. Other panelists include Nick Balletta, Senior Vice President and General Manager of iBEAM (NASDAQ: IBEM - news); Oliver Zitoun, CEO and President of Eveo.com; Geoff Allen, CEO of Anystream; Bill Foulkes, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for ContextMedia; Michael Tchong, Editor and CEO of Iconoclast.
Kinnaman has been with USA Video Interactive since earlier this year. Before joining the company, he worked with the Gilder Technology Group, headquarters of George Gilder's Telecosm investment strategy newsletter, the Gilder Technology Report (www.gildertech.com) While at Gilder, Kinnaman was Editorial Director of Conferences, Director of Research and Communication for Harvard Business School professor and best selling author Clayton Christensen's ``Innovation Partnership,'' and Editorial Director for Christensen's Disruptive Innovation Conference.
About StreamingMediaWest
Streaming Media West 2000 (www.streamingmedia.com/west) will be the largest exhibition ever held for streaming, broadband and content companies. Over 275 cutting-edge exhibitors will display the latest in broadband technologies, content and services to over 15,000 exhibition attendees. Building on the sold out successes of all previous Streaming Media events, which are now held on three continents, Streaming Media West 2000 will be held in San Jose on December 12th-14th. The Conference features keynote addresses from Steve Ballmer, President and CEO of Microsoft; Jerry Yang, Co-founder and Chief Yahoo of Yahoo!; Yair Landau, President of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Gerhard Parker, Executive Vice President of Intel; and Ken Williams, President and CEO of Stan Lee Media.
About USA Video Interactive
USA Video Interactive is an international designer and supplier of high-tech Internet streaming video and video-on-demand systems, services and innovative end-to-end solutions. The USA Video Interactive patent for store-and-forward video, #5,130,792, was filed in 1990 and issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on July 14, 1992; it is considered a pioneer patent in the field of video-on-demand and Internet video. It has been cited by at least 141 other patents. In 1999, USA Video Interactive was awarded similar patents in England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany; the company has patents pending in Canada and Japan. The USA Video Interactive patented video technology gives users full-motion video; the flexibility of standard, VCR-like controls; and the convenience of a standard internet-browser format for access. It provides video images significantly faster and at a higher degree of resolution than with previously available methods; significantly overcomes bandwidth restrictions; and eliminates the blockiness and slowness of current technologies -- all at a lower cost and at or near broadcast quality. USA Video Interactive is nearing completion of a patented Wavelet compression technology that will further enhance the company's ability to deliver Internet video to home modem users and reduce storage and download-time requirements for all users, including those with broadband connections. For more information, visit www.usvo.com
USA Video Interactive Corporate Headquarters Office: 70 Essex Street; Mystic, CT 06355; (800) 625-2200; (860) 572-1560. Canada Office: 837 West Hastings Street; Suite #507; Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3N6. Trading symbol on the OTCBB: USVO; Trading symbol on The Canadian Venture Exchange: US. Standard & Poors Listed. CUSIP 902924208; USA Video, USA Video Interactive, Video-On-Demand and Video Yellow Pages are trademarks of USA Video Interactive. The Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. For more information contact: Tony Castagno, Media Relations, 860-572-1560; Kevin Yorio, Investor Relations, 860-572-1560; info@usvo.com
This press release may contain forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statement. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ from those described.
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