USA Video Interactive and Lucerne Media agreed to partner
Thursday, 29 April 1999
MYSTIC, CONNECTICUT - USA Video Interactive and Lucerne Media have agreed to partner in a pilot program to digitize three of Lucerne’s most popular educational video series, install them on the USA Video Interactive server at LEARN and elsewhere, and make them available via LEARN’s Intranet network including remote access by the region’s magnet schools. Lucerne Media is the third major educational film library to sign on with USA Video Interactive in recent days.

USA Video Interactive will use its wavelet technology to compress and digitally encode the Lucerne videos. The USA Video Interactive Wavelet technology allows direct streaming and download & play options; provides video images significantly faster and at a higher degree of resolution than previously available methods; significantly overcomes bandwidth restrictions; and eliminates the blockiness and slowness of current technologies, all at a lower cost. It allows extremely high compression ratios while retaining broadcast quality, an essential feature of the USA Video Interactive technology.

Lucerne Media is a leading supplier of videos and CD-ROMs for all ages and in all subject areas and currently offers over 1,000 programs. Lucerne acquires programs for distribution from independent producers and corporations worldwide, and also co-produces programming to meet the specific needs of the educational, public library, and college market community.

The videos being provided by Lucerne Media include:

• The six-part Teens At Risk series
• The four-part Meet The Seasons series
• The six-part The Changing Face of Asia series.

“With the addition of these videos from Lucerne Media to our server, we now can provide students with some of the best available content in Guidance, Health, Social Services and Language Arts”, said Edwin Molina, President of USA Video Interactive. “We are now in the unique position of being able to provide a complete package of servers and educational content with true Video-on-Demand™ to schools and universities throughout the world.”

LEARN provides technology and other services in Connecticut to 24 school districts, 120 schools and more than 49,000 students. There are similar organizations in most other states and some 550 Regional Education Service Centers throughout the United States.

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CONTACTS

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

Kevin Yorio
Investor Relations
(800) 625-2200
(860) 572-1560

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