[2] BigStar.com and INTERVU Align to Deliver Full-length Movies and Trailers Over the Internet.Entertainment Editors NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000 Broadband Theater(TM), Next Step in BigStar's Shop-A-Tainment(TM) Strategy, is hosted on INTERVU's Patented Distributed Network BigStar Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: BGST BGST Bradley Gunnery Skills Test ), which operates www.bigstar.com, the leading movie site on the Web according to Entertainment Weekly, and INTERVU Inc. (Nasdaq: ITVU), the leading service provider for Internet audio and video delivery solutions, today announced an agreement for INTERVU to distribute BigStar's Broadband Theater content of full-length films and film trailers over the Internet. "With a current subscriber list of 1.5 million unique addresses growing at 20% per month, BigStar needs to ensure that our broadband audience receives the highest level of performance," said David Levitsky, bigstar.com's executive vice-president of strategy. "INTERVU's proven distributed network infrastructure for streaming media provides high-quality support for our full-length film content and allows BigStar to focus on what it does best - creating a unique environment where visitors can view movies and previews over the Internet, see information about their favorite stars, and purchase filmed entertainment products, all in one visit." Bigstar.com's Broadband Theater allows visitors to preview more than 2,000 films and also offers full-length movies that can currently be viewed for free on 28.8-Kilobits-per-second (Kbps), 56-Kbps and T1 connections. The titles in Broadband Theater can also be ordered on digital video disc See DVD. Digital Video Disc - Digital Versatile Disc (DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. ) or VHS video for delivery from bigstar.com. "We are pleased to deliver bigstar.com's broadband programming to its millions of unique visitors," said Ed Huguez, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of INTERVU. "Bigstar.com is one of the most heavily trafficked film sites on the Internet and requires an experienced and reliable streaming media provider to ensure the site has the high quality of delivery needed to retain customers. We are confident that INTERVU's scalable streaming media services can seamlessly support not only bigstar.com's current streaming efforts, but also its future plans to deliver downloadable content to its users." Bigstar.com's Broadband Theater is the company's next step in its Shop-A-Tainment strategy. Shop-A-Tainment is the new Internet term that describes the combination of a fun online shopping experience with an entertaining, interesting and informative environment. Bigstar.com's Shop-A-Tainment strategy integrates captivating information about movies and movie stars within a fun shopping site resulting in one of the most entertaining shopping experiences for movies online. About BigStar Entertainment Inc. BigStar Entertainment (Nasdaq: BSTS BSTS Better Safe Than Sorry BSTS Backside Tailslide (skateboarding) BSTS British Society for the Turin Shroud BSTS Battle Staff Training System BSTS Base Shop Test Station BSTS Brumman Satellite BSTS Battalion Staff Training System ) operates bigstar.com (AOL keyword: BigStar), a leading Shop-A-Tainment(TM) film entertainment destination site, based on internal analysis of traffic, sales and other metrics. Bigstar.com is exclusively dedicated to filmed entertainment products and sells more than 40,000 titles of videos and digital video discs (DVDs). BigStar has forged strategic alliances with companies including Value Vision (Nasdaq: VVTV VVTV Voorlopige Vergunning Tot Verblijf (Dutch: Temporary Residency Permit to Stay) ), StarMedia (Nasdaq: STRM STRM Stream (US Postal service standard street suffix) STRM Starmedia Network, Inc. (stock symbol) STRM System Trouble Report Menu STRM Streamer ), AOL's MovieFone (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AOL), Shop-at-AOL, Earthlink (Nasdaq: ELNK ELNK EarthLink, Inc. (stock symbol) ELNK Ethernet Link ), Yahoo! Chat (Nasdaq: YHOO), FortuneCity.com and Flirt.com among others. About INTERVU Inc. INTERVU provides Web site owners and content publishers with services for the delivery or "streaming" of live and on-demand video and audio content over the Internet. INTERVU's services automate the publishing, distribution and programming of video and audio content. INTERVU's customers use its video and audio distribution services to transmit entertainment, sports, news, advertising, business communications, and distance learning content. INTERVU's current customers include CNET (Nasdaq: CNET), CNN (NYSE: TWX), Excite@Home (Nasdaq: ATHM), House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically , Investor Broadcast Network (formerly Vcall), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company , NBC (NYSE: GE), NetRadio.com (Nasdaq: NETR); Quokka quokka a small, nocturnal wallaby (Setonyx brachyurus) which is especially sensitive to nutritional myopathy. Called also Rottnest quokka. Sports (Nasdaq: QKKA), Saatchi & Saatchi (NYSE: SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ), Tunes.com and Turner Broadcasting. Additional information can be found at www.intervu.net. This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of BigStar Entertainment and INTERVU Inc. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in BigStar Entertainment's and INTERVU's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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