USA Video Interactive Corp.

USA Video Interactive Corp. (OTC BB:USVO.OB) (CDNX:US.V) (Berlin:USF.BE) (Frankfurt:USF.F) designs and markets technology for delivery of digital media. The Company's products add anti-piracy solutions to existing distribution channels and extend distribution into interactive channels with Video-on-Demand.

Symbol: USVO & US.V

Exchange: OTCBB & TSX

Sector: Digital Media

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USA Video Interactive Corp. designs and markets technology for delivery of digital media. The Company's products add anti-piracy solutions to existing distribution channels and extend distribution into interactive channels with Video-on-Demand.

Founded in 1986, USA Video's first media technology was based on the Company's Store-and-Forward Video-on-Demand patent (#5,130,792), filed in 1990. It has been cited by at least 165 subsequent patents. USA Video holds similar patents in England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada, and Japan. The technology covers the transmission of video content over networks faster than "real time." Video-on-Demand is the mechanism by which the delivery of compressed video is managed and, together with compression technology, facilitates the delivery of video to an end user in a timely and interactive fashion.

USA Video Interactive's current focus is on MediaEscort™ and SmartMarks, to help the film and television industry fight piracy, providing a robust means for producers and distributors to invisibly mark their content with the proof authorities need to catch the crooks who steal films, television shows, and video content.

Apr 2, 2008 - USA Video Interactive Corporation (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) (Berlin: USF.BE) (Frankfurt:USF.F) announced that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) has gone "LIVE" with its new copy protection software, MediaEscort(TM), to protect the Studio's filmed entertainment content that is streamed via the Internet to its various trade business partners in advance of DVD availability.

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Company Overview

USA Video Interactive Corp. designs and markets technology for delivery of digital media. Our products add anti-piracy solutions to existing distribution channels and extend distribution into interactive channels with Video-on-Demand.

Founded in 1986, our first media technology was based on our Store-and-Forward Videoon- Demand patent (#5,130,792), filed in 1990. It has been cited by at least 206 subsequent patents. We hold similar patents in England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Canada, and Japan. The technology covers the transmission of video content over networks faster than "real time." Video-on-Demand is the mechanism by which the delivery of compressed video is managed and, together with compression technology, facilitates the delivery of video to an end user in a timely and interactive fashion. With our current focus on MediaSentinel and SmartMarks, USA Video Interactive Corp. is helping the film and television industry fight piracy, providing a robust means for producers and distributors to invisibly mark their content with the proof authorities need to catch the crooks who steal films, television shows, and video content.

MediaSentinel is an anti-piracy device that embeds SmartMarks-invisible forensic information-in every frame of video content. SmartMarks provide the proof courts need to protect intellectual property rights, indicting and convicting the individuals who steal the original material. Its use by producers and distributors of film and television content allows unprecedented, secure access to a wide range of distribution markets and methods which otherwise represent a significant piracy risk. MediaSentinel is available as a standalone product; SmartMarks may also be created on demand through our certified Anti- Piracy Provider service network.

The company began as First Commercial Financial Group Inc. and eventually became USA Video Interactive Corp in 1995 to focus on the digital media business. We have five wholly-owned subsidiaries: USA Video (California) Corp., USA Video Corp., Old Lyme Productions Inc., USA Video Technologies, Inc., and USVO, Inc. Our executive and corporate offices are located in Niantic, Connecticut, and our Canadian offices are located in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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About MediaEscort™:

MediaEscort™ is an industry first, IP-centric, real-time online watermarking product, with its own administrative infrastructure fully integrated into customer's video servers. It will automatically and seamlessly embed SmartMarks -- imperceptible forensic information in every frame of video content -- during Internet delivery, providing the proof courts need to protect intellectual property rights, indicting and convicting the individuals who steal the original material. Using MediaEscort, copyright holders are able to protect their content without restricting the fair uses of legitimate customers. MediaEscort's SmartMarks work across all distribution and presentation channels and technologies. It seamlessly provides an entire system for piracy protection without frustrating consumers, who will continue to have the freedom to enjoy content in their own way. In addition, MediaEscort has the ability to support all major codecs in the industry, while preserving the SmartMark and the process is fully compatible with DRM.

MediaEscort™ / Technical details:

In MediaEscort 1.2, this process was integrated with the DRM encoding module itself. Although the current mechanism allows for efficient processing of the video content ready for consumer distribution, it has certain drawbacks. Each license provider presents a unique way to register or activate the content. This limits the choices for the content owner to easily switch between license providers for various business/technical reasons. MediaEscort 1.5 eliminates this problem seamlessly.

Building on the infrastructure of the ME core, the license activation of the watermarked content is moved into its own process pipeline. This allows for the same administration module to configure the license activation process, which eventually is controlled by the monitor component in a completely seamless way. The process parameters for the activation can be configured for different license providers only once and then this configuration can be attached to any DRM pipeline with the full capability to switch between different providers online. Also, depending on the license provider's requirements, alternate configurations with different process parameters can be created and similarly attached to the same DRM pipeline, retaining the full capability for switching between them online. This enhancement takes MediaEscort's already powerful infrastructure to a new level, fully capable to serve the changing business needs.

Market Potential

Over the past few years movie piracy has cost the film industry billions of dollars, with 2005 alone estimated at over $18 billion globally.

"Digital watermarking is becoming an increasingly essential part of the overall content security equation, as the value of content increases," said Steven Hawley, principal analyst for tvstrategies, which focuses on IPTV, related content distribution models and their enabling technologies. "Studios already require IPTV, cable and direct-to-home satellite TV operators to secure their content from unauthorized use through the use of conditional access and encryption. The addition of watermarking will help open major new revenue windows for higher-quality content, such as home theatre, and reduce anxiety levels among content owners that worry about uncontrolled distribution of their content over the Internet."

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DRM Watch.com 2008 Year in Review, Part 3
December 29, 2008
By Bill Rosenblatt
The small video watermarking vendor USA Video Interactive finally announced a deal with a major studio, Fox Home Video. Medialive of France released technology that cleverly combines video watermarking with DRM and announced a customer for it in the in-flight entertainment market this past month.
full release: http://www.drmwatch.com/watermarking/article.php/3793516

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