Access Integrated Technologies to Sponsor 'Digital Cinema University' at 2005 ShoWest, the Motion Picture Industry's Largest Trade Show

Access Integrated Technologies to Sponsor 'Digital Cinema University' at 2005 ShoWest, the Motion Picture Industry's Largest Trade Show

MORRISTOWN, N.J., March 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (AMEX:AIX) announced today it will sponsor a "Digital Cinema University" (DCU) at the 2005 ShoWest, the largest annual tradeshow for motion picture exhibitors, scheduled from March 14th to 17th at Bally's Paris Las Vegas hotel. Continuous DCU classes will be hosted in AccessIT's suite, Palace One, and offered to all ShoWest attendees.

The company plans to demonstrate how digital cinema works from the studio to exhibition, showcasing all of AccessIT's fully-integrated digital cinema products and services for film delivery, security, content management, and exhibition, in a unique educational environment. AccessIT's experts at DCU will give ShoWest attendees detailed explanations and demonstrations and respond to all queries about these powerful technologies; how they work together; and their critical role in the film industry's coming transition to an all-digital world. The DCU "faculty" will also instruct all attendees in the special qualities and features of each stand-alone product, focusing particularly on their interconnectivity and interoperability with technologies, products and services produced by a wide spectrum of vendors.

"The transition to digital cinema is imminent and as such, is sure to be a major theme this year, said Bud Mayo, CEO of AccessIT. "Therefore, ShoWest is a perfect venue to show our friends in the motion picture industry how AccessIT can make that transition simple and painless."

At the conclusion of each day's "Digital Cinema University" classes, "graduates" will be entered into a daily prize drawing. The winning entries on Tuesday, March 15th and Wednesday, March 16th, will receive Apple i-Pod Minis. The winning entrant on Thursday, March 17th, will be awarded a new 50" flat panel Panasonic HDTV.

Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. (AccessIT) is an early mover in offering a fully managed storage and delivery service for owners and distributors of digital content to movie theaters and other venues. Supported by its robust platform of fail-safe Internet data centers, which offer a wide variety of managed services, AccessIT is able to leverage the market-leading role of its Hollywood Software subsidiary with the innovative digital delivery capabilities of its Digital Media unit to provide the highest level of technology available to service the emerging digital cinema industry. For more information, visit our website at http://www.accessitx.com/ .

Safe Harbor Statement

Investors and readers are cautioned that certain statements contained in this document, as well as some statements in periodic press releases and some oral statements of AccessIT officials during presentations about AccessIT, along with AccessIT 's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including AccessIT 's registration statements, quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB and annual report on Form 10-KSB, are "forward-looking'' statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act''). Forward-looking statements include statements that are predictive in nature, which depend upon or refer to future events or conditions, which include words such as "expects'', "anticipates'', "intends'', "plans'', "could", "might", "believes'', "seeks", "estimates'' or similar expressions. In addition, any statements concerning future financial performance (including future revenues, earnings or growth rates), ongoing business strategies or prospects, and possible future actions, which may be provided by AccessIT's management, are also forward-looking statements as defined by the Act. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections about future events and are subject to various risks, uncertainties and assumptions about AccessIT, its technology, economic and market factors and the industries in which AccessIT does business, among other things. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and AccessIT undertakes no specific obligation or intention to update these statements after the date of this release.

Contact:
Suzanne Tregenza Michael Glickman
AccessIT The Dilenschneider Group
55 Madison Avenue 212.922.0900
Suite 300
Morristown, NJ 07960
973.290.0080
www.accessitx.com

Source: Access Integrated Technologies, Inc.

CONTACT: Suzanne Tregenza of Access Integrated Technologies, Inc.,
+1-973-290-0080; Michael Glickman of The Dilenschneider Group for Access
Integrated Technologies, Inc., +1-212-922-0900

Web site: http://www.accessitx.com/

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