MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT - JUNE 12, 2001 -- The National Football League Seattle Seahawks have signed on as a "launch partner" with USA Video Interactive (OTCBB: USVO; CDNX: US) and will be the first customer for Zmail™, which debuts at Streaming Media West in Long Beach, California,
later this month. A specially prepared Seahawks video will be integrated into Zmail™ and highlighted at the show.
The Seahawks plan to utilize Zmail™ for a campaign scheduled in July. The Seahawks also are considering enhancing their weekly emails - "Hawk Mail" - to Seahawks fans by adding streaming video that could include player
interviews and other features. "Hawk Mail" has features on players, team
information, discounts on team-related merchandise, apparel and more.
"We are looking forward to using Zmail to communicate with an ever-growing
fan base that extends throughout the world," said Mike Flood, Vice
President of Information Systems for the Seattle Seahawks. "Knowing how
much our fans appreciate team related video emails, we intend to stay on
the leading edge of Internet video technology. Combining video delivery
with the data collection features of Zmail, make this a doubly interesting
proposition."
Zmail™ is the first product to utilize USVO's core technology, StreamHQ™,
a powerful and uniquely functional Internet streaming rich media delivery
architecture designed by USVO. Zmail™ draws upon several of the features
of StreamHQ™ including encoding, streaming, data collection and analysis,
and custom web development. StreamHQ™ encompasses state-of-the art
technology from industry leaders EMC, Cisco and Oracle along with USVO's
proprietary content and data management software. Installed at an Exodus
Internet Data Center, StreamHQ™ is a highly reliable, scalable and
versatile Internet infrastructure with features that are unsurpassed in
the industry.
USVO will showcase Zmail™, featuring the Seahawks, in demonstrations at
Streaming Media West, June 20 to 22, and at the company's Annual Meeting
on June 28. It also will be available on the USVO website by the end of
the month. The Seahawks have supplied USVO with a video specially created
for their fans for use in their Zmail™. USVO custom-designed a web page
to host and display the video along with key links to Seahawks'
information and merchandise.
"Video emails, and particularly our unique streaming Zmail™, are powerful
marketing tools and also greatly enhance a team's communications with its
fans or a business's communications with its customers," said Edwin
Molina, President and CEO of USVO. "There is intense competition out
there for professional sports teams so we are especially pleased and proud
to have the Seahawks as our first Zmail™ client. They help provide a
strong and persuasive example of the vitality and versatility of the
Zmail™ service."
About the Seattle Seahawks
The Seattle Seahawks were the National Football League's 1999 AFC West
Champions and are owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Seahawks
celebrated their 25th anniversary with the onset of the 2000 season, and
plan to move into a new stadium for the 2002 season.
The Seahawks open their third season under Head Coach Mike Holmgren at
Cleveland on September 9. In addition to AFC West rivals, the Seahawks
will face four NFC East opponents, including the Dallas Cowboys who come
to Seattle for the first time since 1983. In his first season with the
Seahawks, Holmgren helped guide the team into their first postseason since
1988, breaking a 10-year playoff drought. The 9-7 regular season record by
the 1999 Seahawks was the best mark since posting a similar record in
1990. By leading the Seahawks into the postseason, he became just the
second coach in team history to take the Seahawks to the playoffs, and
just the third coach in NFL history to guide a team to at least seven
straight postseasons, joining Tom Landry (nine years, and eight years) and
Chuck Noll (eight years). For more information, visit www.seahawks.com.
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. Its StreamHQ™ media delivery
services are focused on creating revenues for customers and reducing their
Internet costs. StreamHQ™ encompasses the entire media experience from
source to viewing, including content production; content encoding; asset
management; media and application hosting; multi-mode content
distribution; and transaction data capture, reporting and analysis.
StreamHQ™'s design leverages the capabilities of the Internet while
bypassing its latencies, with high availability, reliability, flexibility,
scalability and cost-effectiveness. USVO holds the pioneering patent for
store-and-forward video, filed in 1990 and issued by the United States
Patent and Trademark Office on July 14, 1992. It has been cited by at
least 145 other patents. USVO holds similar patents in England, France,
Spain, Italy and Germany, and has patents pending in Canada and Japan.
The USVO 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. USVO is developing patented Wavelet compression technology
that will further enhance the company's ability to deliver unique
capabilities as part of StreamHQ™. 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. 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 |
