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RT-SET Establishes Creative Services Division WithAcquisition of Design Visualization Partners...

NEW YORK and SHEFAYIM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999--

RT-SET, a world leader in virtual studio systems, has established a creative services division for the design and production of virtual sets, with the acquisition of Design Visualization Partners (DVP), the world leader in

virtual set design and production, it was announced by Shalom Nachshon, President and CEO.

While DVP's operations will form the nucleus of RT-SET's new creative services division, DVP will retain its identity and continue to provide open platform services for all customers regardless of which virtual set system they are using.

"Having worked with RT-SET over the last 2 years, we found the RT-SET virtual studio technology to be superior to every other system we have worked with," stated Scott Lelieur, DVP Design Principal. "We are delighted with our new business relationship, which allows DVP to continue serving its virtual set customers while we expand our services to meet the growing demand for virtual set design services."

Gregory Petroff, DVP Design Principal, added, "We were looking for a partner to help us broaden our customer base for state-of-the-art design and production services, and were extremely impressed with RT-SET's cutting-edge technology. It seemed like a perfect fit."

Said RT-SET's Corporate VP Business Development Alon Carmeli, "RT-SET is very excited by the new business relationship which supports our slogan 'Where creativity leads technology,' by merging DVP, a world leader in virtual set design and production with RT-SET's proven virtual set systems technology."

Hollywood, California-based DVP is the world leader in virtual set design and production with experience creating sets, which work with all of the major virtual studio systems installed worldwide. With the world's largest library of virtual sets, DVP maintains its leadership position through an extensive in-house commitment to research and development.

Virtual set design pioneers, Scott Lelieur and Gregory Petroff, have been involved with almost every virtual set milestone in the United States over the last four years. DVP's clientele includes: CBS, Turner Network Television, VH-1, HBO, Channel News Asia, WCBS2 New York, Buena Vista Television, and AT&T.

A world leader in virtual studio systems, RT-SET products are now being used for daily live-to-air and live-to-tape news, weather, sports, children's programming and special event productions at dozens of locations worldwide, including such prestigious broadcasters as WCBS-TV (New York), BBC (United Kingdom), Tele-Europe (France), RAI-Radio Televisione Italiana (Italy), SZM PRO-7 (Germany), TV Record (Brazil), Televisa (Mexico), TVN (Chile), CCTV (China) and Asia Television (Hong Kong), among others.

RT-SET Ltd. is the creator and developer of turnkey Virtual Studio Systems, which enable real-time computer-generated virtual sets and environments to be used in live and taped broadcast and cable television, post-production, interactive programming, and other content-intensive video production. RT-SET Ltd. is a subsidiary of BVR Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:BVRTF).

At NAB, RT-SET Ltd. is located at booth No. S1750 in the Sands Expo Center.

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