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To: Ron who wrote (213)	2/25/1999 5:54:00 PM
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From one of your "friends" on the CCUR board: SeaChange International Granted U.S. Patent For MediaCluster Video Storage and Delivery Technology PR Newswire - February 25, 1999 15:53 MediaCluster Proven Successful in Broadcast and Cable Television Operations Worldwide MAYNARD, Mass., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaChange International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEAC) was awarded a U.S. patent for its MediaCluster technology, affirming one of the company's chief technological advantages as a developer of digital video systems for television. MediaCluster is a computer architecture empowering the TV industry with the most reliable and economical method for digital storage and delivery of broadcast quality television applications. Introduced in 1996, MediaCluster is the foundation of SeaChange digital video systems now used by top broadcast and cable television operators worldwide. U.S. Patent No. 5,862,312 was granted for MediaCluster on Jan. 19, 1999. "The architects of MediaCluster, Bruce Mann and his team of video and networking engineers at SeaChange's advanced video systems development facility, have ushered the computing industry to a critical technological milestone and afforded SeaChange with a unique competitive advantage," said Bill Styslinger, president and CEO, SeaChange International. "We are energized by this accomplishment and will continue to direct our talents toward unlocking other technologies to the benefit of our customers." Modern computer systems used for 'mission critical' applications like digital video delivery for television require high-capacity mass storage and high-bandwidth access to data. While disk drive sizes and storage capacity continue to increase substantially, bandwidth capabilities have not kept pace. In response SeaChange developed MediaCluster, which directly connects nodes (computers) to act as a single server and provide large quantities of data (video) via an extremely reliable, or fault-tolerant, configuration. Further, by employing commodity parts and standards-based hardware and software, including Windows NT, SeaChange's MediaCluster-based systems make cost- effective the storage, networking and delivery of broadcast-quality Broadcast and cable television operators such as France 3, Group W Network Services, UPC, Tele-Communications, Inc. and Time Warner Cable leverage MediaCluster-based digital video systems for various 'mission critical' television applications. The SeaChange Broadcast MediaCluster product family enables fully automated commercial insertion and program delivery from the broadcast television environment. Cable TV operators use the SeaChange ITV System to deliver interactive television services such as video-on-demand to residential cable subscribers. The SeaChange GuestServe Network enables cable operators to provide hotels with high-quality in-room guest service packages such as movies on demand and Internet access. The SeaChange Movie System enables cable operators to offer their subscribers near-video-on-demand pay- per-view movies and events. Among MediaCluster's principal benefits is that only one copy of video material is required, thereby dramatically reducing storage requirements while guaranteeing the availability of all video at any output rate. Also, storage and service bandwidth capacity can be increased while the system is on air, recording and playing video streams. Storage capacity can be added by adding disks to each node's chassis, by adding additional nodes to a cluster, or connecting multiple clusters. As each new node is added, any media content on the newly-added node is incorporated into the on-line MediaCluster inventory. All the nodes in a MediaCluster "see" the same media and can access any portion of the media without regard to the number of other concurrent accesses to that same portion of the media. For a technical white paper on MediaCluster and success stories about the technology in its various applications, visit www.schange.com. About SeaChange International Serving hundreds of geographic markets and approximately 20,000 television channels worldwide, SeaChange International, Inc. (www.schange.com), is the leading provider of MPEG-2 digital video systems for television. SeaChange's products, incorporating the company's patented software and hardware technologies, automate the management and distribution of video streams including advertisements, movies, news updates and other broadcast-quality video programming requiring precise execution. Founded in 1993, SeaChange is headquartered in Maynard, Mass. MediaCluster is a registered trademark and patent of SeaChange International. SOURCE SeaChange International, Inc. /CONTACT: John Coulbourn of SeaChange International, 978-897-0100 x3098, johnc@schange.com/ /Web site: schange.com