Specialists Join USA Video Interactive For StreamHQ Project
Wednesday, 14 February 2001
MYSTIC, Connecticut, February 14, 2001 - Two Internet specialists have joined USA Video Interactive in positions directly related to the development and implementation of StreamHQ™, the company's innovative umbrella of end-to-end media delivery services from source to viewing, including content production, content encoding under the banner EncodeHQ™, asset management, media and application hosting, multi-mode content distribution, transaction data capture and reporting, and e-commerce.

Gabrielle Aldrich has joined USA Video Interactive as Senior Project Manager, responsible for technical oversight of the company's global media streaming initiatives, including StreamHQ™. In this role, she will supervise the design, development, testing, and deployment efforts associated with these systems and services. Ms. Aldrich comes to USA Video Interactive after 17 years at Sonalysts, Inc., where she was a Principal Analyst and Project Manager for a variety of web-based and traditional software development projects for Fortune 1000 companies, consistently leading skilled technical teams toward delivery of quality products. Her diverse project experience includes client interface, fiscal and personnel management, project technical direction, requirements definition, design, documentation, and quality control. Ms Aldrich has a B.A. degree from Eastern Connecticut University and has completed graduate studies in Computer Science.

Pamela Vocatura has joined USA Video Interactive as a Web Producer/Interface Designer, responsible for managing web projects, developing web site layout and navigation, as well as working on the corporate marketing collateral. Ms. Vocatura comes to the company from Andera, where she was web producer. Previously she worked at Sonalysts for three years and was a lead interface designer of web-based e-business solutions. Ms. Vocatura will be involved in the redesign and development of the USA Video Interactive's web site and will oversee design and development of customer sites related to StreamHQ™ deployment. She graduated from The University of Rhode Island with as B.S. degree in Marketing.

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 and features its StreamHQ™ suite of media delivery services. These services encompass the entire media experience from source to viewing, including content production, content encoding under the banner EncodeHQ™, asset management, media and application hosting, multi-mode content distribution, transaction data capture and reporting, and e-commerce. StreamHQ™ services leverage the capabilities of the Internet while bypassing its latencies and are designed to be highly available, reliable, flexible, scalable and cost-effective. USA Video Interactive 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 144 other patents. USA Video Interactive holds similar patents in England, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and has patents pending in Canada and Japan. The USA Video Interactive 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 -- all at a lower cost and at or near broadcast quality. USA Video Interactive is nearing completion of a patented Wavelet compression technology that will further enhance the company's ability to deliver Internet video to home modem users and reduce storage and download-time requirements for all users, including those with broadband connections. 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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