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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Offers Range Of Enhanced Extras On Digital Movies

New Features include Search, Social Sharing and More

March 11, 2011

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) today announced a range of enhanced extra features on select digital movie purchases, enabling movie fans to engage with SPHE’s content in innovative, interactive ways. These new features include functionalities that leverage internet-connected digital platforms and include the following: “Enhanced Search” functionality utilizes the latest facial recognition and speech-to-text software and a database of frame-level information including dialog, actors and character names to return search results that link to exact spots in the movie where the keyword appears. The “Clip & Share” feature allows viewers to choose among a selection of film clips that can be shared instantly on Facebook and Twitter. “Interactive Music Playlist” links to the exact scene where a song is featured in a film as well as to the iTunes Music Store for easy purchase of soundtrack albums and select songs. SPHE’s enhanced digital movie features are currently available through iTunes on recent releases. Burlesque and The Other Guys contain all three features. Salt and Resident Evil: Afterlife contain “Enhanced Search” and “Clip & Share.” Available on iTunes March 22, The Tourist will offer “Clip & Share” and “Enhanced Search.” On the same day, How Do You Know will offer “Clip & Share.” “Developing innovative features like search and social sharing are integral to increasing the value and relevance of our digital offerings, and to making digital movie purchases more collectable for consumers,” said Rich Berger, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Digital Strategy and Operations at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. “As consumers continue to embrace digital content, we plan to expand these and other new and innovative features to additional SPHE titles and across digital service platforms.” Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. SPE is a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE's global operations encompass motion picture production and distribution; television production and distribution; home entertainment acquisition and distribution; a global channel network; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; development of new entertainment products, services and technologies; and distribution of entertainment in more than 140 countries. Sony Pictures Entertainment can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.sonypictures.com

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