India`s Growth Story; Spending and Innovation in PC Markets, Cell Phone Markets, Green Technology and Digital Media and Entertainment

Released on: May 7, 2008, 10:35 am

Press Release Author: InvestorIdeas.com

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: USA Video Interactive Corp.\'s (OTC BB: USVO), (TSX.V: US)
Digital Watermarking Technology Deployed In Bollywood

Press Release Body: POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., May 7, 2008
-www.IndiaStockMarket.com a global investor website for investing in India within
Investorideas.com reports on the rapid economic growth story in India and some of
the key sectors that are impacted. With an economy growing at nine percent, spending
and innovation in technology across personal computers, cell phones, greentech and
digital media is on the rise.

India's Media and Entertainment is accelerating and according to industry stats, was
worth INR402.43 billion (USD9.12bn) in 2006, a growth of 13.98% over 2005, which is
higher than GDP growth rate.
"It is expected that the industry will grow at a CAGR of 34.17% during 2006-10. "
Source: (http://www.allbizreport.com/indexer_eng/Indian_Media_Entertainment_50730.html)

At the Seoul Digital Forum, Sumner Redstone, Chairman of Viacom and CBS Corporation
( Market, News ) stated in his keynote," Governments in China and India are
starting to take an active interest in reinforcing copyrights, \"if only to protect
their own home grown content.\"

USA Video Interactive Corp.\'s (OTC BB:USVO), (TSX.V:US) recently announced that four
production and distribution companies in Bollywood, the world\'s largest film and
entertainment industry, based in Mumbai, India, will be deploy their unique digital
watermarking product, MediaSentinelT, to protect against piracy domestically and
internationally. The companies will begin using MediaSentinelT through PIO TV Pvt.
Ltd. (www.pioTV.com), India\'s only digital integrated media Platform Company.

Shemaroo Entertainment, an Indian company and distributor of Indian films, recently
reported it expects to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 to 35
per cent over the next three years but also raised concerns over video-piracy, which
causes the company Rs 650 crore in revenue-losses.

In the cellular sector, Reliance Communications Limited, (BOM:532712) an integrated
communications service provider with an individual, enterprise and carrier customer
base of over 30 million announced Financial results for the year ended March 31,
2008 with net profit up by 70.8% and revenue higher by 31.8 %. Reliance is the
most profitable integrated telecom company in India, which has grown to become the
world\'s second biggest cell phone market, following China. India grew to a
200-million cellular subscriber mark as of September 2007.

In the tech sector, according to recent reports at http://www.idcindia.com/,
"India's information technology and IT-enabled Services (ITeS) industry will more
than double in size by 2012."

IDC also announced data earlier, " During calendar year 2007 the overall India
Server market factory revenue grew by 24% over calendar year 2006 to touch US$ 727
million* and unit shipments grew by 19% to 135,615 during the same period. Apart
from traditional sectors like telecom, BFSI and manufacturing, 2007 also saw the
emergence of retail and construction as key demand drivers."

Other research from IDC India notes, "The India Client Personal Computer (PC) market
crossed yet another milestone to ship nearly 6.5 million PCs in a calendar year,
thereby recording 20% year-on-year growth in unit shipments (compared to 5.4 million
units in CY2006)."

From Tech to greentech, business leaders at a US-India renewable energy conference
in Washington noted that
" India\'s role as a hub for US technology companies could be mimicked in the
renewable energy market", calling for greater deregulation and a global price on
carbon emissions to help spur growth in alternative fuel sources.

With rapid economic growth, rising incomes, an increasing number of Billionaires and
Millionaires, Forty-four per cent of the Top 100 Fortune 500 companies setting up
offices in India, just like China, is a force to be reckoned with.
Facing challenges of rising food costs and oil costs as challenges, India looks
ahead to innovation and technology for answers.

India Showcase Company:

USA Video Interactive Corp. (\"USVO\") designs and markets technology for delivery of
digital media. USVO developed its MediaEscort(TM), MediaSentinel(TM) and
SmartMark(TM) digital watermarking products and technology to provide a robust means
for producers and distributors to invisibly protect their content. USA Video
Technology Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of USVO, holds the pioneering patent for
store-and-forward video, filed in 1990 and issued by the United States Patent and
Trademark Office on July 14, 1992; it has been cited by at least 165 other patents.
USVO holds similar patents in Germany, Canada, England, France, Spain, Italy, and
Japan. Visit www.usvo.com or the company showcase on Investorideas.com at:
http://www.investorideas.com/CO/USVO/Default.asp

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advertising. Disclosure: USA Video Interactive Corp., (OTCBB: USVO; TSX: US.V) $4000
per month and 200,000 options (renewal as of April 3, 2008)


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Dawn Van Zant: 800.665.0411
Email: dvanzant@investorideas.com

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