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USVO Blog 05-07-08
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May 7 - India's Growth Story; Spending and Innovation in PC Markets, Cell Phone Markets, Green Technology and Digital Media & Entertainment

USA Video Interactive Corp.'s Digital Watermarking Technology Deployed in Bollywood

www.IndiaStockMarket.com, a global investor website for investing in India within Investorideas.com, reports on the rapid economic growth story in India and some of the key sectors that are impacted. With an economy growing at nine percent, spending and innovation in technology across personal computers, cell phones, greentech and digital media is on the rise.

USA Video Interactive Corp.'s (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) recently announced that four production and distribution companies in Bollywood, the world's largest film and entertainment industry, based in Mumbai, India, will be deploy their unique digital watermarking product, MediaSentinel(TM), to protect against piracy domestically and internationally. The companies will begin using MediaSentinel(TM) through PIO TV Pvt. Ltd. (www.pioTV.com), India's only digital integrated media Platform Company.

India's Media and Entertainment is accelerating and according to industry stats, was worth INR402.43 billion (USD9.12bn) in 2006, a growth of 13.98% over 2005, which is higher than GDP growth rate.

"It is expected that the industry will grow at a CAGR of 34.17% during 2006-10."

At the Seoul Digital Forum, Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation (Market, News) stated in his keynote, "Governments in China and India are starting to take an active interest in reinforcing copyrights, if only to protect their own home grown content."

Shemaroo Entertainment, an Indian company and distributor of Indian films, recently reported it expects to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 to 35 per cent over the next three years but also raised concerns over video-piracy, which causes the company Rs 650 crore in revenue-losses.

In the cellular sector, Reliance Communications Limited, ( BOM:532712 ) an integrated communications service provider with an individual, enterprise and carrier customer base of over 30 million announced Financial results for the year ended March 31, 2008 with net profit up by 70.8% and revenue higher by 31.8 %. Reliance is the most profitable integrated telecom company in India, which has grown to become the world's second biggest cell phone market, following China. India grew to a 200-million cellular subscriber mark as of September 2007.

In the tech sector, according to recent reports at www.idcindia.com, "India's information technology and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) industry will more than double in size by 2012."

IDC also announced data earlier, "During calendar year 2007 the overall India Server market factory revenue grew by 24% over calendar year 2006 to touch US$ 727 million* and unit shipments grew by 19% to 135,615 during the same period. Apart from traditional sectors like telecom, BFSI and manufacturing, 2007 also saw the emergence of retail and construction as key demand drivers."

Other research from IDC India notes, "The India Client Personal Computer (PC) market crossed yet another milestone to ship nearly 6.5 million PCs in a calendar year, thereby recording 20% year-on-year growth in unit shipments (compared to 5.4 million units in CY2006)."

From Tech to greentech, business leaders at a US-India renewable energy conference in Washington noted that "India's role as a hub for US technology companies could be mimicked in the renewable energy market," calling for greater deregulation and a global price on carbon emissions to help spur growth in alternative fuel sources.

With rapid economic growth, rising incomes, an increasing number of billionaires and millionaires, forty-four per cent of the Top 100 Fortune 500 companies setting up offices in India, just like China, is a force to be reckoned with.

Facing challenges of rising food costs and oil costs as challenges, India looks ahead to innovation and technology for answers.

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USVO Blog 05-02-08
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May 2 - Video Pirates Beware; USA Video's SmartMarks Combats Studio Theft

AudioStocks.com Interviews Patrick Gregston of USA Video Interactive Corp.

AudioStocks.com recently interviewed Patrick Gregston, Head of Business Development at USA Video Interactive Corp. (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) (Berlin: USF.BE) (Frankfurt: USF.F). USVO designs and markets technology for delivery of digital media and developed its MediaEscort(TM), MediaSentinel(TM) and SmartMark(TM) digital watermarking products and technology for producers and distributors to invisibly protect their content from pirates.

Mr. Gregston provides context and insight to the company's recent news that Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company, has gone live with MediaEscort(TM). MediaEscort(TM) is being deployed 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.

"The business models of Hollywood are under attack," notes Mr. Gregston. "Digital technology developments have made the industry suspicious of its customers. For nearly a decade the focus of the industry has been upon making digital theft impossible, which has failed to stop the activity of enterprise pirates or casual file sharing. USVO offers an alternative, which encourages expanded legal transactions in the digital realm, an area of tremendous potential gain to the industry. SmartMarks, our unique watermarks, make it possible to track legal provenance of content, and enforcement of licenses at every level."

This interview discusses the historical origins of watermarking, the distinctions of the enforcement approach to piracy, and the vision of a free flowing marketplace with security provided by watermark supported enforcement being used against those who profit using the content of others.

The complete audio interview with Mr. Gregston can be found exclusively at www.audiostocks.com.

Mr. Gregston also spoke to AudioStocks.com about his perspectives on the following subjects:

1) The idea and history behind indelible watermarking.
2) Some history of piracy.
3) How content needs to move to be valuable.
4) Why people don't see digital theft as theft — the distinction between owning and licensing.
5) Mr. Gregston's background as an agent of change in Hollywood.

For further information about the market USVO is focused on with its anti-piracy products, visit http://blog.usvo.com.

 
USVO Blog 04-28-08
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April 28 - USVO Co-Sponsors 12th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, Telecosm 2008: The Exaflood

USA Video Interactive Corp. (OTCBB: USVO) (TSX: US) (BERLIN: USF) (FRANKFURT: USF) will co-sponsor the 12th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference, Telecosm 2008: The Exaflood, taking place May 27 - May 29, 2008 at The Sagamore Resort in Lake George, New York. Event hosts George Gilder, Steve Forbes, and Forbes publisher, Rich Karlgaard, will be joined by the world's leading scientists, engineers, technology executives, entrepreneurs and public policy decision makers to promote investment in innovation.

For three days, Telecosm 2008 hosts, speakers and attendees will debate, discuss, decode and decipher the digital and communications technologies and policies vital to the build-out of the global Internet infrastructure, the next phase of which is estimated to entail total new investments of some $137 billion worldwide by 2010. The conference will be attended by 250-300 senior VP and C-level executives, engineers, strategists, technologists, sales representatives, serial entrepreneurs and government representatives, as well as business leaders from technology and communications companies, institutional investment advisors, and high-net-worth private investors, accompanied by media and trade press and leading public policy officials.

"The Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference is the high point of our year, when our favored technologies face intense scrutiny, new potential investment opportunities are analyzed, and the major issues confronting the tech industry are rigorously debated. USVO is a valuable addition to the Telecosm 2008 program," stated George Gilder, Chairman of Gilder Publishing, LLC.

"This event gives USVO the opportunity to share the scientific research and development of our content protection technology, which can help advance the speed to market for rich media," said Tom Perovic, Chief Engineer of USVO. "We know that a trust based enforcement strategy is the right approach to security in the exaflood, enabling more prosperity from technology."

ABOUT GILDER/FORBES TELECOSM

For twelve years, the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference — the world-famous technology conference hosted annually by George Gilder and Steve Forbes — has been recognized as one of the most prestigious venues in the world for breaking information on breakthrough technologies and forward-thinking companies and investment strategies. It is an exclusive gathering of engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, public policy decision makers, and the top thought leaders and business executives from the world's leading technology and communications companies. For more information, visit http://www.telecosmconference.com.

For further information about the market USVO is focused on with its anti-piracy products, visit http://blog.usvo.com.

 
USVO Blog 04-23-08
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April 23 - Adoption of Digital Watermarking Increasing, Content Identification and Video Storage Optimization Challenge Industry

USA Video Interactive Corporation (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) (Berlin: USF.BE) (Frankfurt: USF.F) recently announced deployment by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, (a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corp company) (Market, News) of USVO's new copy protection software, MediaEscort(TM). MediaEscort(TM) protects Studio's filmed entertainment content that is streamed via the Internet to its various trade business partners in advance of DVD availability. The company is positioning with Fox to become one of the technology leaders in forensic watermarking.

 
USVO Blog 04-17-08
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April 17 - Four Bollywood Production and Distribution Companies to Use Usvo's MediaSentinel Anti-Piracy Product

Four production and distribution companies in Bollywood, the world's largest film and entertainment industry, based in Mumbai, India, will begin using USA Video Interactive Corp.'s (OTCBB: USVO) (CDNX: US.V) (Berlin: USF.BE) (Frankfurt: USF.F) unique digital watermarking product, MediaSentinel™, to thwart piracy domestically and internationally. The four companies will begin using MediaSentinel™ through PIO TV Pvt. Ltd. (www.pioTV.com), India's only digital integrated media platform company.

Munish Gupta, Chairman & CEO of PIO TV, announced today that in continuation of PIO TV's use of MediaSentinel™, his company was now working with leading production and distribution studios in Mumbai: Prachar Communications Ltd., Time Multimedia Pvt. Ltd., Baba Films Ltd., and Gold Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Together these four companies, two of which are public companies, control thousands of feature films that they produce, acquire the rights of, and distribute, including hundreds of hours of television content.

Speaking on behalf of the four companies, Managing Director of Prachar Communications Ltd., Mr. Ratan Jain, said a solution like MediaSentinel™ "was long awaited." India and the overseas market for Bollywood are "fraught with piracy that causes billions of dollars in lost revenues." Jain added "for years we have wondered how to combat this (piracy) menace and bring in more revenues to produce and distribute more and better films. The biggest issue facing us is how to deter pirates and produce evidence for law enforcement to help us shut down pirates. MediaSentinel™ has provided us the means to that end." Jain said he and his associates were convinced the MediaSentinel™, digital watermarking product from USVO for offline use, and MediaEscort™, now deployed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in Hollywood, for online use, represent "a turning point for the protection of our copyright content. It makes tremendous sense to use this technology to digitally watermark a full length feature film and the cost is very economical versus the tens of thousand of dollars lost to piracy."

"For four years we've been hard at work establishing ourselves as a player in anti-piracy technology to the film industry," stated Edwin Molina, CEO of USVO. "We're building momentum as this month we announced a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. And now through our relationship with PIO TV, we're beginning to establish ourselves in Bollywood too, starting with these four production houses."

The four Bollywood production and distribution houses will begin using the PIO TV deployed MediaSentinel™ workstation currently installed at Prachar Communications' office in Ville Parle, Mumbai, India. For further information on USVO's relationship with PIO TV, please see USVO's press release dated February 21, 2008.

 

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