RTG Ventures, Inc Partners With MVI NOW Video to Deliver Streaming Video Content of Chinese Games of Skill to Mobile Telephones Worldwide.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2003

RTG Ventures, Inc. (RTGV: OB) has partnered with MVI NOW Limited, a London-based streaming video specialty company. RTGV will access MVI's software to deliver video content of Ethnic Chinese games of skill to mobile telephone users with Internet access within China and Chinese communities worldwide. The license will remain in place until August of 2006.

The MVI NOW technology will provide live "buy now" coverage by mobile phone of all semi-finals and the finals of the Chinese Chess Championship (Xiangqi), Mah-jong and Chinese Poker, staged by RTG Ventures, Inc. Full games or highlights will be downloadable on request. Asian games of skill can now be accessed via mobile phone, television, as well as the Internet.

"Mobile phone payment systems are very popular with Chinese Internet users," commented Linda Perry, CEO of RTG Ventures, Inc. "Consumers are more willing to pay for services this way rather than through credit cards." Perry further commented, "It is estimated that far fewer Chinese have credit cards than have mobile phones."

About RTG Ventures Inc

RTG Ventures is a multimedia gaming company that has acquired exclusive rights from the Sports Ministry of the Peoples Republic of China to stage a number of games of skill, including the Chinese Chess Championship (Xiangqi), Mah-jong, and Chinese Poker (Sheng-Ji). RTGV's technology is capable of accommodating up to 200,000 simultaneous players for each of these skill games concurrently. Skill games are played daily by hundreds of millions of people in China and have significant revenue opportunities. The Company plans to establish strategic alliances and joint ventures to maximize these revenue streams and to build a global image as a recognized brand. RTG Ventures expects to see significant revenue opportunities from gaming participation, sponsorship of events from western corporations, advertising, merchandising, satellite television rights to land based events, leading up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and from database marketing.

About MVI NOW Limited

MVI NOW Limited is a leading streaming video specialty company. Based in London, United Kingdom, the company has the proprietary technology to deliver live streaming video and streaming video clips to 2.5G (GPRS and CDMA) mobile devices. Content may include news, sports clips, music videos, film trailers, and advertisements. A "buy now" feature using SMIL, a development of HTML, is available. This technology enables anyone to access streaming content to any video-capable device on any network worldwide, and is scaleable to 3G networks where installed. Advanced bandwidth management technology enables TV quality streamed video at bandwidths of as low as 28 kbps, significantly lower than competitors. The MVI technology does not require a network agreement and can if necessary work over premium rate phone lines, enabling content owners to deliver direct to customers with minimal set-up costs and lead times.

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