June 23, DAZ, a privately held Utah based company has been
awarded a major multi-million dollar contract to provide
3D characters and production expertise to the next major
trend in home intertainment- "Game TV".

"Game TV" will allow a blending of the popularity of 3D
computer games with televison production, enabling more
cable and satellite channels to be filled with more and
widely varied visual content with much faster "turn-on-a-dime" production schedules. But most importantly, the home viewer will be able to electronically "vote" and control via keypads the exact course of each show and decide which characters remain and which are "killed off".

The initial software development contract awarded to DAZ
is from a "Game TV" media consortium which includes SONY,
Microsoft, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX and Time-Warner Cable.

Plans for "Game TV" include "Reality Shows", "Star Search
Shows" and shows developed specifically around existing
comic hero characters and current popular 3D games.

Also of great interest to television networks is the replacement of existing expensive news gathering operations with virtual news people. This will be especially useful in dangerous war-zone conditions where virtual news people can report "live" while actual location imagery is aquired by miniturized hovering drone aircraft the size of small birds. Expensive death and injury insurance policies will be eleminted as well as the requirement for teams of body guards. Current real news reporters and anchors will be phased out over the next two years but dangerous war zone
reporting contracts will be terminated over the next 90 days.

The initial development contract amount awarded to DAZ has not yet been announced, but DAZ CEO Dan Farr has stated that the contract will "secure the future of DAZ FOREVER" and that the Utah company plans to hire 500 new employees within the next 90 days to work on rigging, texturing and other software aspects of the new project expected to grow into further contracts valued at $125 million over the next two years.