uniView Technologies Completes Beta Testing of uniView Development Kit; Platform Now Generally Available.Business Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001 uniView Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:UVEWD) today announced it has successfully completed the beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the of its uniView(R) Development Kit (UDK UDK Umweltdatenkatalog UDK User Defined Key UDK Universal Developer's Kit UDK Universaliosios Dešimtaines Klasifikacijos (Lithuania) UDK Unixware Development Kit UDK Universal Development Kit ), a new product that includes the software and hardware platform from its 310 digital media device (set-top box The cable TV box that sits on "top" of the TV "set," although it is often located several feet away in an equipment rack. The set-top box descrambles the premium channels and provides a tuner for the higher cable numbers that very old TVs did not support. ), and now has released the UDK for general availability. The UDK order form can be found at http://www.uniview.com/product/products.asp. The UDK is a cost-effective method of introducing uniView's state-of-the-art digital media technology to prospective customers, and in turn the marketplace, by providing a complete development environment for the 310 platform. Requests are fulfilled rapidly, with a turn-around time of just days from order placement to delivery. The customer can purchase the UDK for two purposes: to test the compatibility of uniView's 310 technology in their own environment, with the objective of purchasing complete digital media devices from uniView for deployment, or to license the technology from uniView and build their own digital media device and applications for deployment. "We are pleased with the results of the tests and now are prepared to fulfill the numerous requests for the UDK that we already have received from companies around the world," said Cameron Hurst, chief technology officer of uniView Technologies. "We successfully accomplished the most crucial steps in bringing the 310 platform to the marketplace, and we are excited to begin providing customers with the rapid development tools needed to build highly customized, full-featured digital media applications in a relatively short period of time at minimal cost." The UDK contains 100 percent of the functionality, and offers the same flexibility, performance and quality of the uniView 310. It also includes a library of sample content encoded in MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 1 and MPEG 2 (variable and constant bit rate), as well as Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. (R) Audio and Video 8 formats. Customers are free to download or create their own multimedia content, but an encoding facility is not included (Microsoft offers a free Windows Media encoding tool). Applications that can be developed with the UDK include a TV viewer and TV-centric Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , Video On Demand (IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , music on-demand, movies on-demand), Electronic/Interactive Programming Guides, video conferencing, gaming, a 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. player/viewer (will also play music CDs), e-mail, customer service (TV and Web), on-line shopping and much more. Complete code samples for each functional category come shipped with the UDK to assist in rapidly creating custom applications. For more details on the UDK's features and functionality, please refer to the Aug. 16 press release located on uniView's Web site at www.uniview.com/technologies/investor/press/08162001.asp. ABOUT UNIVIEW: Dallas-based uniView Technologies Corporation (www.uniView.com) offers enhanced digital media solutions to customers worldwide. Its products deliver the highest quality video, audio and gaming features through broadband networks. In addition, uniView provides companies with enterprise customer service solutions through CIMphony(TM), a suite of computer telephony integration Computer Telephony Integration - Computer Telephone Integration (CTI (Computer Telephone Integration) Combining data with voice systems in order to enhance telephone services. For example, automatic number identification (ANI) allows a caller's records to be retrieved from the database while the call is routed to the appropriate party. ) software products and services. CIMphony allows contact centers to customize and incorporate voice, data and Internet communications into their customer interactions. The company markets its products and services to hospitality, utility, banking and telecommunication companies. Key technology partners include Microsoft (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. ), Intertainer (on-demand entertainment content provider), Intel, and ATI Technologies. NOTICE: Some of this information may contain "Forward-Looking Statements" which reflect company expectations, plans and projections. Because such statements apply to future events, they are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from management's expectations. For a discussion of risk factors associated with some of these statements, please refer to the Company's reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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