TRI-VISION INTL. NEWS RELEASE
USA TV INDUSTRY BODY REQUESTS TRI-VISION'S V-CHIP DECODER
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1996 - TORONTO, ONTARIO. 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.
Canada's Tri-Vision was selected to develop the world's first V-Chip product, a
Decoder giving parents control over the quality and content of television programs
viewed in the home.
With a consumer launch this Fall, Cable Lab requested a working model V-Chip
Decoder to demonstrate to the constant stream of industry leaders visiting its Louisville
research facility, just outside Denver, Colorado.
Tri-Vision Directors Professor Tim Collings, inventor of the V-Chip, and Qamrul Siddiqi
recently demonstrated the V-Chip Decoder to a conference of more than 250 top
engineering executives and broadcast CEOs at the Cable Lab site.
The industry response to the product was extremely positive, Mr. Siddiqi said. Cable
Lab CEO Dick Green has since requested a model of the V-Chip Decoder to be
permanently located at the facility.
"His [Mr. Green's] interest in the product is about the best thing that can happen to a
company's product," Mr. Siddiqi said.
Cable Lab is the independent research facility supported by North America's broadcast
and cable industry with the responsibility of conducting comprehensive tests on new
television products and technologies.
Tri-Vision's Directors were introduced to staff in Cable Lab's Engineering and Research
and Development divisions after speaking at the conference.
In February 1996, U.S. President Bill Clinton signed into law the requirement that all
new televisions be equipped with the V-Chip by 1998.
Tri-Vision is currently working with a company set up by one of its Directors, V-Chip
inventor Professor Collings, to develop the technology for use directly in television.
Parent company Tri-Vision International Ltd./Ltee trades on The Alberta Stock
Exchange under the symbol TVL.
For more information contact Century Communications Corporation at [888] 298-8551
(toll free).
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