USA VIDEO INTERACTIVE TO WEBCAST L. A. MUSIC AWARDS THANKSGIVING NIGHT; HOUSE OF BLUES, WORLD-RENOWNED MUSIC VENUE, TO HOST EVENT
Tuesday, 02 November 1999
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF, November 2, 1999 USA Video Interactive (NASD: USVO; ASE: US; www.usvo.com) will broadcast the 9th Annual L. A. Music Awards on the Internet on Thanksgiving evening, Thursday, November 25, 1999, at 7PM PST (10PM EST). The event itself will be held at the world famous House of Blues in Hollywood, California, on Thursday, November 18. A limited number of tickets are still available at the House of Blues Box Office in Hollywood. Full information about the event is at the L. A. Music Awards website: www.lamusicawards.com.

Special guests include Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (1998 LAMA Lifetime Achievement Award winner and former member of Steely Dan, The Doobie Brothers, and Elton Johns band); Peter Tork (of the Monkees); Chuck Negron (of Three Dog Night); Kathy Valentine (of The Go-Gos and The Delphines); Eddie Money (with hits including "Two Tickets to Paradise" and "Baby Hold On"); Colin Hay (of Men at Work and the Colin Hay Band); and several other music leaders.

Featured performers include Paul Rodgers (who will receive the 1999 LAMA Lifetime Achievement Award), Slash (former lead guitarist for Guns N Roses), The Cohen Brothers (from Columbine High School), Jermayne Gordon (nominee, Outstanding R&B Artist), Claudia Brant (nominee, Outstanding Latin Artist), Beyond Control (nominee, Outstanding Rock Artist), and Full Frequency (nominee, Outstanding Techno/Industrial Artist). The event also will feature a special fashion show with Terri King Designs, which will be televised at a later date.

A Silent Auction is being held to benefit the "Friend of Mine Fund," the charity established for the survivors of the Columbine High School shooting earlier this year. As noted above, The Cohen Brothers are featured performers.

The opening address will be delivered by Edwin Molina, President of USA Video. USA Video Interactive and Artist Direct are major sponsors of the L. A. Music Awards. The Webcast is being produced by The House of Blues, USA Video Interactive, and Merging Rivers Media, a wholly owned subsidiary of USA Video Interactive. Postproduction will be overseen by House of Blues, L. A. Music Awards founder Al Bowman and L. A. Music Awards partner, Brent Harvey. The Webcast can be accessed at the following websites: House of Blues (www.hob.com); L. A. Music Awards (www.lamusicawards.com); and USA Video Interactive (www.usvo.com). Excerpts will remain available on the L. A. Music Awards website after the webcast.

The Webcast will utilize USA Video Interactive's Internet video, video-on-demand and Wavelet compression technology to provide a larger screen and more fluid stream of images than presently available from competitors technology. Sponsors will be recognized for making the event and broadcast possible, and visitors to the site will have the opportunity to purchase CDs and other memorabilia.

About L. A. Music Awards
This awards show, structured like similar televised awards events, recognizes and honors the grassroots (local and national) music community consisting of emerging unsigned and/or independent record label artists. In addition, established celebrity artists are recognized and honored for specific contributions and accomplishments in the music industry by receiving the Special Achievement Award, Paul Rothchild Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. Live performances by nominees representing their specific categories and award presentations are intermixed throughout the show, including some of the nationally known artists involved. The award presenters are drawn from all entertainment fields including music, motion pictures, television and radio that contributes to the entire entertainment extravaganza.

About USA Video Interactive
USA Video Interactive is an international designer and supplier of high-tech Video-on-Demand systems, services and solutions. 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 near-broadcast quality.

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CONTACTS

Tony Castagno
Media Relations
(800) 625-2200
(860) 572-1560

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Investor Relations
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