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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5026)	8/23/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Respond to of 12823

NY Times: Multimedia Transmissions Drive Net Toward Gridlock nytimes.com By SARA ROBINSON When a computer sending conventional data encounters congestion, it significantly slows its own transmission rate, but a computer sending streaming data will reduce the flow only slightly. So if streaming traffic competes with conventional traffic for the same congested strip of roadway, the streaming traffic, like some VIP motorcade, assumes the right of way and lets all other data traffic pile up. ... * By its very nature, streaming media has to flow continuously to the user's computer, so it cannot follow the same traffic rules as conventional data. But even so, it is possible for packets of streaming data to interact civilly with other traffic on the Internet. The reason they do not, Jacobson said, is that streaming media providers have no incentive to comply with traffic rules. Today, he said, "if Real Networks is polite and Microsoft isn't, then Real looks crummy." Even elbowing all other data aside, today's streaming media produces a very low quality of entertainment most of the time. Much of that lack of quality today is a result of slow modems at the user's end. In three to five years, when cable modems and souped-up digital telephone lines are expected to be common, most Internet users may be listening to live Webcasts or playing high-quality radio on their computers. In 10 years, movies and commercial television might very well be carried over Internet channels. ... * Jacobson's proposal, developed with Ms. Floyd in 1989 and only now being tested in Cisco routers, uses a kind of virtual penalty box. When the router experiences congestion, it takes a random sample of its traffic. If a certain host computer is overrepresented in that sample, its packets are placed at the end of the line. This creates the right incentive structure, he said, because the Internet service providers do not have to persuade Real Networks or any other company to obey the rules. Rather, he says, "The customers do instead, because the quality" of their audio and video "gets really crummy." All the best, Michael

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (5026)	8/23/1999 8:31:00 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 12823

USA Video Interactive Signs With IC One to Provide Video-on-Demand To 1.5 Million Homes August 23, 1999 MYSTIC, Conn., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- In collaboration with its subsidiary Merging Rivers Media, USA Video Interactive (OTC Bulletin Board: USVO; Alberta: US) ( usvo.com) has signed a Letter of Intent to conclude an agreement with IC One Inc., (Nasdaq: SCTN) ( icone.com) to provide Video-on-Demand(TM), Wavelet compression, educational and other content in a deployment to 150,000 apartment units within 12 months and more than 1.5 million apartment units over the next 36 months. IC One had previously announced it would supply 1.5 million set-top boxes and "Rent Smart Cards" to provide Internet access and other services to its affiliated apartment communities in Nevada, Arizona and elsewhere as part of an agreement with Global Capital Limited. The Letter of Intent projects that USA Video Interactive's technology will be incorporated in these set-top boxes before installation. Additionally, USA Video Interactive will provide video server clusters for strategic placement throughout the apartment communities, and will provide digitized content and video hosting services through its video portal on the UUNET Internet network. UUNET is an MCI WorldCom company ( uunet.com). "We are glad to see interest from the marketplace in providing driven content for our set-top box contract," Dave Simon, IC One Senior Vice President of Technology, said today. "We are aggressively seeking to improve the market position of our partners and ourselves, and USA Video Interactive's technology is compelling." "This is another segment of the vast Internet market where we intend to make our mark," said Edwin Molina, President of USA Video Interactive. "Helping provide the full array of bundled services demonstrates where the Internet is headed and how fully involved it is becoming in our everyday lives. " The agreement between IC One and USA Video Interactive will be the basis of a contract once pricing structures and delivery schedules are established and due diligence by both parties is completed. IC One is a leader in the fast-growing, integrated smart-card loyalty and fundraising solutions marketplace. It recently expanded to include multi-language touch screen, Internet-enabled system of kiosks, as well as home-based PC access to on-line shopping featuring 3-D Preview Marketing(TM) and virtual tours. IC One recently announced the acquisition of an Internet Service Provider. With a back end powered by an IBM ( ibm.com) DB2 database, IC One plans to be able to supply loyalty solutions to merchants both virtual and physical. USA Video Interactive is an international designer and supplier of high-tech Video-on-Demand(TM) systems, services and solutions. Merging Rivers Media is USA Video Interactive's West Coast subsidiary, focused on providing the USA Video Interactive technology and full advertising-agency services to the entertainment industry. The USA Video Interactive technology allows users to view streaming video or to access digitized video libraries, including movies, sports, other entertainment, educational resources, corporate training seminars and other archives. The USA Video Interactive technology gives users full-motion video; the unique flexibility of standard, VCR-like controls of play, fast forward, reverse and pause; and the convenience of a standard internet-browser format for access. USA Video Interactive can utilize MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 compression techniques but prefers its Wavelet compression technology. The USA Video Interactive Wavelet technology allows direct streaming and download and play options; 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. An essential feature of the USA Video Interactive technology is that it allows extremely high compression ratios while retaining broadcast quality. USA Video Interactive Corp. Corporate Headquarters Office: 70 Essex Street; Mystic, CT 06355; (800) 625-2200; (860) 572-1560. Merging Rivers Media: 6380 Wilshire Blvd.; Suite 911; Los Angeles, CA 90048; (310) 441-0772. Canada Office: 837 West Hastings Street; Suite #507; Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3N6. Trading symbol on the US NASD OTC BB: USVO; SEC 12g3-2(b) Exemption: #82-1601. Trading symbol on The Alberta Stock Exchange: US. Standard & Poors Listed. CUSIP 902924208; Video-On-Demand(TM) and Video Yellow Pages(TM) are trademarks of USA Video. The Alberta Stock Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. SOURCE USA Video Interactive Corp. /CONTACT: Media Relations - Tony Castagno, 860-572-1560, or Investor Relations - Kevin Yorio, 860-572-1560, both of USA Video Interactive Corp.; or Doug Lloyd, Vice President of Marketing of IC One, Inc., 801-355-0066/ /Web site: http//www.usvo.com/ (USVO US. SCTN) [Copyright 1999, PR Newswire]