uniView Set Top Box to be Demonstrated During Microsoft's Streaming Media West 2000 Keynote.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers Streaming Media West 2000 SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 Microsoft to Deliver Vision for Residential Streaming Media Using uniView's Set Top Box as a Component for Broadband Delivery to the Home uniView Technologies Corp. (Nasdaq:UVEW) and Microsoft team to deliver the broadband video media of the future at Streaming Media West 2000. During the Streaming Media West 2000 show, Windows Media Video See Windows Media formats. will be presented using the Windows Media Player Digital jukebox software for Windows from Microsoft that plays a variety of audio, video and streaming formats including MP3, WMA, CD audio and MIDI. Starting with Version 6.2 in 1999, the Windows Media Rights Manager was added for securing copyrighted content. running on the uniView(R) set top box during Steve Ballmer's keynote on Dec. 12 and featured in a home entertainment environment in the Microsoft booth in the main exhibit hall. Demonstrating these technologies further emphasizes the direction of how content will be delivered to the home as broadband connectivity expands throughout the world. The Microsoft and uniView relationship was first announced in October with the deployment with Zoom Town.com a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Broadwing Inc. in the Cincinnati market. This relationship between the broadband service provider An ISP, telephone company, cable company or other carrier that offers high-speed communications to homes and businesses, typically for Internet access. Cable modems, DSL and T1 lines are the common technologies. See broadband, cable modem, DSL and T1. , Microsoft's Windows Media Player, uniView's digital set top box and content providers is the first deployment to offer these components using asymmetrical digital subscriber lines (ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line ) technology. "This participation at the Streaming Media West show will showcase the services and applications that will expand the current home multimedia experience, using IP-enabled set top boxes," said Patrick Custer, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of uniView. Dallas-based uniView Technologies Corporation (www.uniView.com) offers competencies and expertise to create solutions for video on demand, set top box products, interactive broadband connectivity, computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration software and overall broadband solutions. The company markets its products and services both domestically and internationally focusing on multi-level marketing, hospitality, utilities, banking, telecommunications and Fortune 1,000 companies. NOTICE: Some of this information may contain "Forward-Looking Statements" which are company plans, projections and uncertainties. For a discussion of risk factors associated with some of these plans and projections, please refer to the company's SEC filings, which contain additional discussion about those factors which could cause actual results to differ from management's expectations. |
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