USA Video Interactive Hires Sales VP to Head StreamHQ™ Launch Names New Sales Director
Monday, 02 April 2001
Mystic, Connecticut, April 2, 2001 - USA Video Interactive (OTCBB: USVO; CDNX: US; www.usvo.com) has hired Jeffrey S. Bartlett as its Vice President of Sales to spearhead the upcoming launch of the company's StreamHQ™ suite of Internet streaming services. He will be responsible for expanding the sales team and establishing the USA Video Interactive's StreamHQ™ sales strategy; for building an account management organization; and for planning and executing the official launch of StreamHQ™.

Mr. Bartlett has more than 15 years experience in high-tech sales and served as the National Account Manager for Adobe Systems of San Jose, California; he twice received Adobe's Most Valuable Performer award. At Adobe, he was responsible for introducing and managing direct corporate sales of the Adobe Acrobat family of products in New England, and for establishing sales channels throughout the Northeast. In addition to his experience with Adobe, Mr. Bartlett was Regional Account Manager with Clearway Technologies of Boston, responsible for sales of content delivery solutions to e-businesses; and Regional Manager with Digital Island/Sandpiper Networks of San Francisco, responsible for signing and managing global accounts for the company's content delivery network. He also was Director of Sales for Trellix Corporation, responsible for Fortune 1000 sales and developing the company's premiere partner program; and Vice President of Sales for Thames Automation, responsible for worldwide sales of their automated computer media production systems. Mr. Bartlett holds degrees in Marketing and Business Administration.

USA Video Interactive also named Matthew Golda its Director of Sales. Mr. Golda has more than six years experience in sales and most recently was Sales Manager with DataLink Communications in Massachusetts, where he managed a professional sales team and was responsible for generating new business, training new employees, and developing sales strategies. He was ranked "#1 Sales Professional in the United States" by Sprint while working with U.S. Telecenters where he was responsible for introducing new telecommunication services to medium and large businesses and creating sales strategies for the reintroduction of existing services for Bell Atlantic, Southwestern Bell, GTE, BellSouth and Ameritech. In 1995, he won Sprint's nationwide "Sprint to the Final Four" contest by achieving record revenues during Sprint's "1-800-pin drop" campaign. Mr. Golda was recognized as U.S.Telecenter's top sales performer among the company's 300 sales professionals in its California, New York and Massachusetts offices. In 1997, Mr. Golda introduced Faxnet USA's "Never Busy" fax service to the market by brokering it to sales forces as Faxnet's exclusive Master Agent in the United States.

About USA Video Interactive
USA Video Interactive is an international designer and supplier of high-tech Internet streaming video and video-on-demand systems, services and innovative end-to-end solutions. Its StreamHQ™ media delivery services are focused on creating revenues for customers and reducing their Internet costs. StreamHQ™ encompasses the entire media experience from source to viewing, including content production; content encoding; asset management; media and application hosting; multi-mode content distribution; and transaction data capture, reporting and analysis. StreamHQ™'s design leverages the capabilities of the Internet while bypassing its latencies, with high availability, reliability, flexibility, scalability and cost-effectiveness. USVO holds the pioneering patent for store-and-forward video, filed in 1990 and issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on July 14, 1992. It has been cited by at least 145 other patents. USVO holds similar patents in England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and has patents pending in Canada and Japan. The USVO patented video technology gives users full-motion video; the flexibility of standard, VCR-like controls; and the convenience of a standard internet-browser format for access. It 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. USVO is developing patented Wavelet compression technology that will further enhance the company's ability to deliver unique capabilities as part of StreamHQ™. For more information, visit www.usvo.com

USA Video Interactive Corporate Headquarters Office: 70 Essex Street; Mystic, CT 06355; (800) 625-2200; (860) 572-1560. Canada Office: 837 West Hastings Street; Suite #507; Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3N6. Trading symbol on the OTCBB: USVO; Trading symbol on The Canadian Venture Exchange: US. Standard & Poors Listed. CUSIP 902924208. The Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. For more information contact: Tony Castagno, Media Relations, 860-572-1560; Kevin Yorio, Investor Relations, 860-572-1560; .

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