uniView Technologies Launches uniView Development Kit -UDK-; Shipment of the 310 Platform in Progress, Expediting Global Market Penetration for Home Broadband Entertainment.

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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 2001

uniView Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq:UVEW) today announced it launched the uniView(R) Development Kit (UDK), a new product that includes the software and hardware platform from its 310 digital media device (set-top box). The company today shipped the first UDK beta to Pacom International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Korea Computer Incorporated (KCI), for testing. The UDK is scheduled for general availability late September.

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 without actually shipping a 310 digital media device. Requests are fulfilled more rapidly, with a turn-around time of just days from order placement to delivery.

The company expects the UDK to facilitate and accelerate the realization of significant revenue streams from its technology. The customer can purchase the UDK for two purposes: to test the compatibility of uniView's technology with their own, 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.

According to Cameron Hurst, chief technology officer for uniView Technologies, companies worldwide including those from Canada, Europe, Australia, China, Mexico, South America and multiple U.S. locations have expressed interest in the 310 digital media device and user interface. "We receive a substantial number of requests from companies around the world wanting to evaluate our digital media technology," said Hurst.

"With the UDK, we are able to quickly offer customers a turnkey system, providing them the ability to demo and test the complete uniView digital media solution in their labs or to their own customers," continued Hurst. "At a minimum cost, using uniView's rapid development tools, the UDK enables the customer to produce highly customized, full-featured digital media applications in days to weeks. They can start from scratch or work from one of our many fully functional example applications."

One unique aspect of the UDK is that it allows customers to conduct a compatibility test of the 310 technology in their own environment, and also encourages them to prototype and develop applications of their own. In addition, one of the best features of the UDK is that it supports concurrent use of a monitor for developing applications and a television for running and displaying them.

"Imagine developing and debugging set-top box applications from your desktop without having to follow the traditional approach of coding, compiling and linking it all together before transferring them to the embedded target and running the tests," said Al Bruns, vice president of engineering for uniView Technologies. "As one who has built embedded systems for years, I can say there is no doubt that the UDK will save programmers many hundreds of hours with its unique and innovative approach to application development."

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 1 and MPEG 2 (variable and constant bit rate), as well as Windows Audio and Video 8 formats. Of course, customers are free to download or create their own multimedia content, however 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, Video On Demand (IPTV, music on-demand, movies on-demand), Electronic/Interactive Programming Guides, video conferencing, gaming, a DVD 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.

Besides the software described above, hardware provided with the UDK includes a television tuner (analog NTSC/PAL/SECAM formats -- digital tuners also are available and customers can contact uniView to discuss this option), a graphics chip set, a 20 gigabyte hard drive, 128 Mbytes of memory, and a 533 MHZ CPU with equivalent performance characteristics of the 310. uniView also packages the 310 infrared remote control and keyboard and a DVD drive.

Customers may use their development tools of choice, including Delphi, C++ Builder, Visual C++, Visual Basic or any other environment that supports ActiveX controls. uniView offers development assistance via an e-mail option that puts the customer directly in contact with a uniView Customer Care representative at [e-mail]. Billing is on a per-incident basis, with the initial request provided free of charge.

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 (CTI) 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), 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.