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Obvious Technology and Virage Provide Powerful Video Review, Indexing and Collaboration System for Broadband and Video Management

Las Vegas, NV--April 20, 1999--Obvious Technology today at the National Association of Broadcasters Show demonstrated the advantages of using Obvious Technology's annotation and collaborative work tool, the OBVIOUS™ Media Manager, with Virage's VideoLogger. Virage and Obvious Technology will be working together to market this complete solution to the broadcast and corporate multimedia industries.

In the Virage booth (NAB S-1351), Obvious Technology will be demonstrating how the OBVIOUS Media Manager greatly speeds up the Virage search process and also provides a powerful and fully-featured interface for collaboration and annotation of projects. By using the OBVIOUS Media Manager interface, Virage's customers in broadcast and corporate multimedia industries will now be able to embed links to other media types (text, sound, HTML, still images, ODBC database tables, closed caption and even DNS/IP addresses) in the annotations to their indexed video selections.

"The OBVIOUS Media Manager's ability to integrate a wide variety of multimedia data with Virage's searchable video index provides organizations with a powerful new solution for sharing and using video more effectively," said Paul Lego, Chief Executive Officer of Virage. "Now, through a single interface, users will have access to all data related to a particular project at their fingertips--improving their ability to complete the project faster and more effectively." According to Etienne Mirlesse, CEO of Obvious Technology, "Virage's open architecture and published SDK made this integration easy. We feel the OBVIOUS Media Manager is the ideal complement to Virage's proven video indexing and management capabilities. Producers will now be able to add rich media annotations to video projects under production, as well as work in collaboration with team members scattered throughout the world." Obvious Technology's Media Manager is based upon a universal multimedia envelope called an Object-Based Video Interface (OBVI™) format that can be thousands of times smaller than current media files. Because of the small size, OBVI searches are very fast compared to searching standard video file formats. The OBVI interactive multimedia file can also be used to link video content to any type of existing media on a frame-accurate basis (text, sound, HTML, still images, ODBC database tables, closed caption and even DNS/IP addresses).

More on Virage Virage, Inc. is the pioneer and recognized market leader in providing products and technologies that make video searchable. Virage's VideoLogger and AudioLogger software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets/extranets and Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. Virage customers include ABC News, AltaVista, BBC, Carlton Communications, CBS News, CNN, CNN Interactive, Compaq, Energy Film Library, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, Heinle & Heinle, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, NASA, Network Espana, NBC News, PICS Retail Network, Reuters, Showdown Productions, Swiss Broadcasting Corp. and several classified U.S. government agencies. These companies rely on Virage video search products as the critical foundation technology for more effectively deploying and using video within their operations. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Virage was incorporated in 1994 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. For more information, see the Virage Web site at http://www.virage.com or call (650) 573-3210.

More on Obvious Technology: Obvious Technology, Inc. was founded in April 1997 to address the challenge of managing video and multimedia assets over Internet and Broadband networks in both production and corporate environments. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company maintains R& D and product development facilities in Europe and the USA.

The Obvious family of scalable products and solutions delivers a complete range of functional needs for the IT, media, entertainment, communications and broadcast industry segments. For more information on Obvious Technology, see the www.obvioustech.com Web site.

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