Digeo® Outlines Services Strategy; Announces Alliances With Flickr, Finetune, Accedo And CloverLeaf

New Services Further Enhance the Moxi Multi-Room HD DMR Entertainment Experience [The following is a release from Digeo]

January 7, 2008

Digeo, Inc., makers of the Emmy®-award winning Moxi® digital media recorder (DMR), and recipients of two CEA Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Honoree awards today outlined its featured services strategy and subsequently announced alliances with four leading content providers: Flickr, Finetune, Accedo Broadband and CloverLeaf Digital LLC. These new services are the first of many anticipated content partners and illustrate how the Moxi Menu seamlessly aggregates and connects several different specialized services into one cohesive entertainment experience. While other basic DMRs or media center PCs provide access to non-broadcast content and services via disparate virtual content "stores," the Moxi Menu delivers a premium entertainment experience that integrates all content sources throughout the user interface, providing consumers with increased exposure and easy access to all available content. This approach has already proven successful for premium content offered on Moxi Media Centers deployed through cable operators. A 2006 Adelphia study demonstrated VOD usage by subscribers of the Moxi Media Center was more than triple that of ordinary digital-cable subscribers during a given month. The increase in VOD uptake is credited to the Moxi Menu's unique seamless integration of VOD and PPV titles alongside regular programming throughout the guide. "People are increasingly looking to the TV as a central source for entertainment," said Mike Fidler, CEO of Digeo. "As the number of channels and Internet-based content delivery providers grow, consumers will seek out devices which make navigating the sea of content simple and intuitive, and we believe the Moxi HD DMR family will stand out as providing the best entertainment experience possible." Your Digital Life, All in One Place Each content partner was chosen not only for its innovative approach to digital content, but for its overall commitment to ease of use and ability to aid consumer discovery and enjoyment of new content. For example, Digeo is collaborating with Flickr, one of the world's largest online photo sharing communities, to allow users to easily link their Flickr accounts with the Moxi Multi-Room HD DMR. This gives consumers easy access to any photo group associated with their Flickr account – including popular categories from the Flickr web community and photos uploaded from mobile devices -- in the full HD resolution1 in their living room. Now, consumers can access photos streamed from their PC, stored on Moxi or shared on Flickr all from the Moxi Photos tab on the Moxi Menu. Similarly, together with Finetune, a well-known music service, Digeo has extended the Moxi Music feature by making it possible for Finetune members to play their customized playlists or personalized stations from the Moxi Menu. Comprised of about two million tracks, Finetune also has one of the largest major and indie label libraries in the industry. Since its launch in September 2006, Finetune has already counted three-million unique listeners and 600,000 registered members, adding more than 60,000 new listeners each week. Now, Moxi users have convenient access to their entire MP3 music library, right from the Moxi Menu regardless of whether the music lives on the Moxi hard drive, their laptop or PC, or online at Finetune. To bring HD casual gaming to the TV, Digeo is partnering with Accedo Broadband, which specializes in television-centric entertainment services. Casual gaming has grown dramatically in popularity over the past few years and is increasingly being embraced through the television medium. Moxi DMRs already offer classic games such as solitaire and poker, and with Accedo, Digeo will expand its offering to include additional HD games such as Sudoku, Texas Hold`em and QuizzMaster. Moxi Multi-Room HD DMR will also have a host of new services for information junkies. In addition to the popular SuperTickerTM feature already in Moxi, CloverLeaf will take advantage of the new HD Moxi Menu to give users access to full-screen web-based content designed specifically for TV viewing. This includes news and sports from Associated Press, local weather content from AccuWeather, lottery results and other information such as horoscopes and movie listings through CloverLeaf's DotDaily, an interactive television news and information portal. Moxi Multi-Room HD DMR users will be able to browse news by topic and region, or see the day's news as a series of photos. All four services will be available as free features in the Moxi Multi-Room HD DMR, Moxi Home Cinema HD DMR and Moxi TV for PC products to become available later in 2008. Additionally, Digeo will showcase live demonstrations of all four services at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 in their booth #26606 in South Hall 2, as well as the Content@CES showcase in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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