QuVISí QuBit Added To Seven International Digital Cinema Theatres

Total Number Of Digital Cinemas At 30QuVIS Motion Image Recorder Is The Playback System For 100 Percent Of The Market

30-Jun-00

QuVIS, Inc. announced that its QuBit motion image recorder would be installed in seven more theatres throughout Europe, Asia and Mexico. The total number of digital cinema theatres now stands at 30 and the QuBit is the playback device for all of them. Digital cinema refers to the electronic delivery and exhibition of movies in theatrical venues, versus the traditional means of shipping and projecting 35mm reels of film. QuVIS' QuBit, a digital motion image recorder/server/player, replaces film with an electronic movie and offers the audience a consistently higher quality viewing experience. QuVIS' is providing the technology for digital cinema to revolutionize the way entertainment content will be captured, delivered, displayed and archived. The QuBit digital motion image recorder is the heart of the digital cinema production, distribution and playback systems currently in use and is the system of choice because of the image quality and efficiency that make distribution possible. ""QuBit is the culmination of years of R&D in digital recording technology and what we have done seems to exceed people's expectations in terms of quality and efficiency,"" says Kenbe Goertzen, QuBit inventor and President of QuVIS. ""We are very pleased with the reaction we're getting from audiences worldwide when we show them what QuBit can do with high resolution content."" The new theatres include Cinemex Mundo E in Tlanepantla, Mexico, Seoul Cinema Town in Seoul, Korea, AMC Tokyo Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan, Kieft Cinestar Hellersdorf in Dusseldorf, Germany, Cinemaxx's The Maxx theatre in Munich, Germany, Kinepolis in Madrid, Spain and UCI's Cinesa Diagonal in Barcelona, Spain.About QuVIS QuVIS Inc., headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, is the leading provider of digital motion imaging technology. QuVIS provides digital solutions based on quality priority encoding, a real-time recording process that guarantees image quality at user definable levels. QuBit, a high-resolution digital server and the first true alternative to film, offers the highest resolution images available using equipment that is easy to operate, reliable, and cost effective. QuBit records, stores and plays back motion images for video and film production, computer animation, projection applications, television broadcast, virtual entertainment rides, scientific and medical/industrial applications. QuBit works both at and between all industry standard formats. Since 1999, QuBit has been used for the worldwide digital cinema releases of Disney/Pixar's ""Toy Story 2,"" and Disney's ""Bicentennial Man,"" ""Mission To Mars,"" ""Dinosaur,"" ""Titan A.E."" and ""Fantasia 2000,"" with additional releases expected later this year. In addition, QuBits support high-resolution displays and simulation rides at Epcot Center, Sea World, Sony's Music Box-Berlin and other high profile venues throughout the world. The QuVIS product line is continually expanding to apply our imaging technology in acquisition, recording and display processes. For information about products offered, visit the QuVIS Web site at http://www.quvis.com.

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