e-VideoTV Inc. Signs Exclusive Agreement With Macrovision Corporation
e-VideoTV Inc. (OTC BB: EVTV), announced that it has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Macrovision Corp. (NASDAQ: MVSN) to use Macrovision's analog video copy protection for ""less-than-real-time"" Pay-Per-View (PPV) video transmissions within the United States. The license will enable e-VideoTV to protect PPV content, such as movies, sporting events, concerts and other content that are downloaded in less-than-real-time for future viewing. The e-VideoTV set-top open architecture is designed with state-of-the-art ""Client Side Caching,"" an open ""Forward and Store"" architecture, as well as the company's Multi-Terabyte Video Archive (MTVA) Server System. This combination of technologies enables e-VideoTV customers to simultaneously load and store as many as 20 movies for future viewing. The company intends to work with rights owners and service providers in offering Near-Video-On-Demand content to DBS and digital cable subscribers. e-VideoTV plans to offer an extensive catalog of program content, ranging from feature films to interactive software games. With compressed data, viewers can load material in significantly ""less than real time"" intervals and watch content at their convenience. This service will provide an attractive delivery alternative to the $8 billion per year US movie rental business. e-VideoTV plans a limited trial of its technology with a regional U. S. cable operator later this summer. ""The agreement with Macrovision is one of a series of strategic partnerships that are included in our open architecture for Video-On-Demand (VOD),"" stated Roy Bennett, Chairman of e-VideoTV. ""We believe that these partnerships will differentiate our electronic delivery services, thus enabling the company to capture a dominant share of the full-resolution home video markets."" ""The e-VideoTV system has great potential to provide viewing flexibility and content diversity to PPV subscribers. Clearly, the technology exists to offer consumers complementary choices in both content and timing of distribution. It will be a perfect complement for our copy protection technology being used in more than 30 million digital set-top boxes that protect the content of rights owners in 'real time' PPV applications,"" said Carol Flaherty, Vice President of Video Copy Protection at Macrovision. Macrovision Copy Protection technology is designed to deter unauthorized casual copying of digitally delivered programs. This allows copyright owners to minimize unauthorized copying while maximizing PPV and VOD revenues. About e-VideoTV Inc. e-VideoTV Inc. is an electronic content aggregator service provider positioned to become a worldwide leader in the electronic delivery of full resolution movies and videos. e-VideoTV's ""client side caching"" technology allows secure delivery of movies in minutes. The company is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and is publicly traded on the OTC BB under the symbol EVTV. Visit e-VideoTV's Web site at www.e-videotv.com. About Macrovision Macrovision Corp. designs, develops and markets content copy protection and rights management technologies to prevent the unauthorized duplication, reception or use of video and audio programs and computer software. The company provides its products and services primarily to the home video, Pay-Per-View, cable, satellite, video security, consumer multimedia and business software markets. Macrovision has its headquarters in Sunnyvale, California with subsidiaries in London and Tokyo. Visit the Macrovision Web site at www.macrovision.com.