To: BillyG who wrote (36348 ) 9/30/1998 6:42:00 PM From: BillyG Respond to of 50808
Digital Video Systems, Inc. (DVID) Closes New Media Division; Company's Focus is DVD LOS GATOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 1998--Digital Video Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: DVID) has completed the previously announced closure of its New Media Division, a move designed to continue to focus the Company's creative talents, operations and financial resources on the growing global market for digital versatile disk (DVD) products and services. The Atlanta-based New Media Division of DVS developed ad insertion, near video on demand systems and advanced MPEG-2 hardware-technology to allow cable operators to insert local ads into their cable programming. "The product and technology future for the company is DVD," said Edward Miller, CEO of Digital Video Systems, Inc. "This decision does three important things for DVS: first, it allows us to concentrate on our core business of DVD related products; second, it discontinues an unprofitable operation and reduces the Company's overall operating expenses; and third, it will generate limited cash for future investment in our DVD operations." ABOUT DVS Digital Video Systems is a technology company specializing in the development and application of Digital Versatile Disc and related technologies. The Company develops and markets DVD-ROM drives, DVD players including subassemblies and components, Video on Demand Network products, CD based Video Engine products, and MPEG encoding and authoring products for the consumer products, commercial video and computer peripherals markets. Also under development are the DVD Intelligent Loader and the DVD Video Engine. Established in 1992, DVS is a publicly held company headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif., with a branch office in Taipei, and subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Bermuda, South Korea and Panyu Municipality, Guangdong Province, China. This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve various risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, statements with respect to DVS's strategy, proposed sales of DVS's products, markets, and the development of DVS's products. DVS's actual results may differ materially from those described in those forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, risks of competition and the enforceability of DVS' patents and other intellectual property rights, risks relating to the development and market acceptance of DVS' products, and risks relating to the planned rapid growth of the DVS' business and the conduct of business by DVS in foreign countries, which factors and others described in documents that DVS files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's 10KSB/A dated July 29, 1998. For more information on DVS' products, call 1-800/446-8823 or visit: www.dvsystems.com. DVS is a trademark of Digital Video Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Digital Video Systems, Inc. John Smuda, 408/874-8226 or Access Communications Mark Smotroff, 800/393-7737 ext. 270