SmartVideo to Launch Live Content

SmartVideo Technologies, Inc. (www.smartvideo.com), a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows Media(R) 9 Series Certified Hosting Provider, today announced that the Company will launch its premier streaming video service on January 6 at the world's largest consumer electronics show, CES International 2005, to be held in Las Vegas.

"With an estimated 250 million smartphones to be in use in 2008, streaming video is taking the industry by storm. We are extremely excited to be launching our enhanced streaming video services at CES this year. Being the single most important mainstream consumer electronics show in the world, we are here to bring live TV to mobile consumers around the globe," said Richard E. Bennett, Jr., SmartVideo's President and CEO.

As part of the launch, SmartVideo will announce its specific national content and distribution partners and will demonstrate the Company's state-of-the-art, high quality mobile video application. SmartVideo's initial content package, targeting mainstream consumers, will include live news, weather, sports, entertainment, children's programming, and a host of other content genres.

SmartVideo's robust delivery of fully synced live video and audio to media mobile devices, including cell phones and mobile PDAs, at a minimum of 15 frames per second, provides a unique outlet for owners and distributors of live and on-demand video content to deliver their programming to any audience, anytime, anywhere around the world.

CES is expected to attract over 120,000 attendees from more than 110 countries, nearly 2,500 exhibitors and 3,500 journalists. CES is the single most important mainstream consumer electronics and show in the world and is a place where manufactures, developers and suppliers of consumer hardware and content convene to showcase the latest industry developments.