Chico, Calif. (Feb. 18, 2002)-OPTX International's New Workplace Communicator™ bundle delivers the complete solution for easily creating and publishing compelling communications. The bundle's core is ScreenWatch Producer™ software. The first and only recording solution that combines and streams applications, spreadsheets, PowerPoint, and meeting content for mission critical corporate communications, presentations, and training. ScreenWatch features a new Slide Navigator™ with an automatically generated table of contents, a Presentation Manager™ that tracks projects, and a Click and Stream™ Wizard that simplifies screen capture and publishing. With its ScreenWatch Live Webcasting module, workplace communications are broadcast live and recorded simultaneously for streaming on demand. The result is a professional presentation, ready for streaming or CD-ROM deployment.
     OPTX International's President and CEO, Brian Meyerpeter, comments, "With the new Workplace Communicator, you don't need expensive services or to waste time with media video files. There are all sorts of tools for producing PowerPoint presentations and recording screen activity. But there has never been a software application like ScreenWatch. Without programming, it combines audio, video, and full-motion screen capture in a multiplatform format that captures live presentations, then streams and archives them easily and quickly. ScreenWatch Communicator is the most advanced presentation and communication software available. With ScreenWatch Producer and the Workplace Communicator bundle, businesses have all the essential elements for creating dynamic multimedia presentations, so why settle for anything else?"
     The Workplace Communicator and ScreenWatch offer many easy-to-use features. It's the only software offering smooth cursor movement delivered on a low bandwidth so presentations can be received and played on almost any computer. With ScreenWatch's Click and Stream Wizard, simply record and publish, there's no programming or post-production work. It blends screen capture, audio, video, and automatically launches and records PowerPoint, Virtual Ink's mimio ® whiteboard, and other applications. With the Slide Navigator's dynamically generated table of contents, it's easy to locate slides during presentations. The Presentation Manager tracks projects published to local desktops, streaming servers and CD-ROMs, and prints reports indicating files locations. The Workplace Communicator's Bundle includes ScreenWatch Producer software, a desktop video camera, and RealProducer and Windows Media encoders.      ScreenWatch Producer is the only screen capture software supporting RealServer, Linux®, Solaris™, HP-UX, and Windows 2000/NT systems. ScreenWatch records using Windows 2000 and XP. It plays back using RealNetworks® and Windows media streaming technology.
     OPTX serves organizations requiring high-quality screen recording and playback for workplace communications. The US Navy, National Medical Library, AVAYA, Tivoli Systems, Novell, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Verizon, Cadence, and universities nationwide have adopted ScreenWatch. ScreenWatch is distributed worldwide. Visit www.screenwatch.com, call 530/899-2100 or e-mail sales@optx.com.

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NOTE: RealNetworks is a trademark of RealNetworks, Inc. ScreenWatch is a trademark of OPTX International. Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. Windows Media™ Player 7 is a trademark of Microsoft. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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