QuesTec's
TennisProView To Close Out 1999
Tennis Season in Europe
Technology
Scheduled for EuroCard Open,
Sparkassen Cup and return
appearance at ATP Tour World
Championship
Deer Park,
N.Y. Thursday, October 7, 1999 -
Long Island-based QuesTec
Imaging, Inc. (NASD-BB: QSTI)
announces the use of the
company's TennisProView(TM)
virtual replay system for two
upcoming ATP Tour events and one
WTA Tour event. QuesTec and Live
Motion Company (LMC) of
Wiesbaden, Germany will produce
TennisProView for German
state-owned ZDF ( www.zdf.de ) and ARD ( www.ard.de ) television
networks. These events will bring
QuesTec's total coverage of
professional tennis for the 1999
season to 12 tournaments, which
have included 9 ATP, 2 WTA and 1
Grand Slam event.
TennisProView will be featured
during ATP's Eurocard-Open ( www.eurocard-open.de ) tournament in
Stuttgart, Germany, October 25 -
31, and will be aired by both ZDF
and ARD. TennisProView will also
be featured during ZDF's and
ARD's coverage of the WTA's
Sparkassen Cup International
Grand Prix tournament in Leipzig,
Germany, November 1 - 7. QuesTec
will close out the 1999 season
with a return to the ATP World
Championship in Hannover, Germany
for ZDF television November 22 -
28. TennisProView is a real-time
video- and computer-based
tracking and scoring system that
creates virtual replays for
television and a
behind-the-scenes analysis tool
for commentators. TennisProView
will be available for all
pre-match, match and post-match
coverage of center court action.
Tennis fans will be treated to a
unique perspective of different
types of serves, match serve
patterns, Aces and close line
calls.
These tournaments will be
QuesTec's tenth, eleventh and
twelve televised productions
featuring TennisProView during
the 1999 season, of which six
were produced in Europe. QuesTec
debuted TennisProView at the 1998
ATP World Championship, Hannover,
Germany. Since its debut,
TennisProView has been featured
during the Sybase Open,
Kroger/St. Jude, Franklin
Templeton, Lipton Championship,
Family Circle Cup, French Open,
Gerry Weber Open, Mercedes Cup
Stuttgart and the Hamlet Cup.
Ares Donzelli, tennis announcer
for ZDF German Television, said:
"TennisProView is truly
revolutionary for tennis
broadcasting. Its features allow
us to present our audience with
fast representations of key
events during the match.
TennisProView's ability to
instantly display players' serves
and strategies allows us to
better inform our viewers."
QuesTec's TennisProView
technology is the only
interactive real-time, virtual
replay system available for live
televised tennis. TennisProView
instantly captures, quantifies,
and displays the speed, path and
location of serves. QuesTec's
TennisProView technology is
currently being marketed to
television networks and sponsors
as an analysis tool for
commentators and an instant
virtual replay system for
televised tennis.
"We are extremely pleased
with our recent expansion into
Europe", stated Edward
Plumacher, founder of QuesTec.
"Our presence this year in
France and Germany has had
significant impact on our
European branding of QuesTec. We
are gearing up for a strong and
expanded role in European
television and Internet
technology enablement. QuesTec is
aggressively pursuing
opportunities in the U.K., and we
have instituted development plans
for products tailored to the
specific demands of European
sports fans. The European arena
is proving to be a very lucrative
market with huge potential for
QuesTec technology and our
eSports(TM) enabled
products."
QuesTec provides real-time motion
capture, replay and analysis
products for sports
entertainment, display media,
business and industry. The
company develops real-time
virtual replays and eSports(TM)
technology for mainstream
professional sports and
entertainment. QuesTec's
technology enablement offers
unique content and visualization
for the convergence of today's
emerging digital media.
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Investor Relations Contact:
Michael W. Russo, President (631)
243-1880 or invest@questec.com
For more information on
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http://www.eReplays.com. Press releases and
other Questec.com information are
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statements. Michael Russo -
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