DVE’s New Line of True Telepresence Products Debuts at www.DVEtelepresence.com

IRVINE , Calif. - May 23, 2005 Digital Video Enterprises, Inc. (DVE)
DVE, the world’s leader in True Telepresence conferencing, announced today the launch of a revolutionary line of products which solve the inherent problems with all legacy videoconferencing systems. The misplaced camera has plagued videoconferencing since its inception, creating the unnatural experience that people are not looking at you when you are conversing with them. DVE’s new product line solves this problem by providing perfect eye contact. The product line addresses every market segment from the desktop to the integrated room. DVE’s announcement coincides with the recent industry announcements from major codec suppliers of providing HDTV and DVD quality low bandwidth codecs. “ HDTV will provide such clarity that people will now clearly see how awkward videoconferencing is with people appearing to look down and away. People do not converse that way in person so why should they accept it while conferencing? DVE solves this problem by providing true eye contact which is the missing ingredient that allows the new quality codecs from the major conferencing manufacturers to perform at their very best,” according Dr. Steve McNelley, co-founder of DVE.

DVE’s clients over the years have been the early adopters at the highest-end of the market who have demanded DVD quality and HDTV. All of DVE deployments over the past 5 years have been true DVD and HDTV quality. Leaders in the entertainment industry, financial sector, and healthcare have insisted upon high resolution conferencing as well as correct human factors with optically embedded cameras in the display screens for perfect eye contact. DVE calls this high-end videoconferencing experience True Telepresence. DVE’s new product line ranges from the desktop to the group roll-about to the large conference room. DVE’s turnkey group system is comparably priced and often below the cost of bundled solution prices of legacy systems from integrators and of executive bundled group systems from major codec suppliers.

True Telepresence also aims to more naturally simulate the experience as if the distant person shares the same meeting space and is sitting around the same table. Combing this with life-size images creates a far more superior experience then legacy conferencing where people’s heads are confined to a TV box resting on an ugly cart and is located on the other side of the room. Still further, DVE offers technologies in the new product line, such as the Telepresence Podium, that removes entirely the borders of a display so the imaged person appears to be standing at a podium even though they are in another part of the world.

DVE strategically planned its intellectual property and extensive patents over a decade ago for the very evolution now occurring in the conferencing business of codecs that provide DVD and HDTV quality video. DVE knew that HDTV video is only half the formula for a successful videoconferencing system. Customers will and are already demanding DVD and HDTV quality to be combined with DVE’s True Telepresence that works the way humans work – with true eye contact, life-size images, and people on screen that actually appear to be in the same meeting space around the table.

New Products seen at www.DVEtelepresence.com

Eye Contact Silhouette
Telepresence 32
Telepresence 37
Telepresence 45
Telepresence 50
Immersive Meeting Room
Telepresence Podium
Virtual Observer
Transparent Telepresence Display
Intelligent Switched Telepresence
Telepresence Control System

About DVE
Digital Video Enterprises is the world’s leader in True Telepresence conferencing. Traditional videoconferencing has been proven to be a poor communication medium, because of the unnatural and awkward experience it provides. DVE’s patented technologies have transformed the mediocrity of common videoconferencing into an experience that truly simulates being there in person. This is achieved, in part, by optically concealed cameras behind the images on the display screens. Coupled with next generation hardware and software that provides true DVD and HDTV quality images, the experience finally fulfills the promise of quality videoconferencing. The overall experience is defined by DVE as “True Telepresence” and represents an entire new medium for human communication over a distance. DVE’s technologies have been deployed around the globe by leaders in the entertainment industry, financial sector, healthcare, K-12, higher education, and major corporations. For additional Information call (949) 347-9166 or visit the DVE website at www.DVEtelepresence.com.