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Digital 5 Team Joins Industry Experts, Hosts Session at Intel Developer Forum

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 September 2003, 06:00 CDT

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM -- Digital 5, Inc. announced today that it would conduct a session at the Intel Developer Forum where they will share their insight and knowledge into the challenges of distributing content wirelessly in the home environment and the solutions for distributed functionality. During the session, Digital 5 experts will discuss the service layer of its award-winning Netplay technology, which provides an enhanced streaming experience, a framework for easier and faster application development, and support for multiple multimedia (video) standards. Digital 5 will demonstrate dynamic transcoding/transrating of media streams, active client buffer management, and stream management for improved quality of service.

"We are pleased to have a company such as Digital 5 participate in the exchange of cutting-edge, multi-media distribution information with industry leaders and contribute to the success of IDF," said Bob Gregory, director Initiatives Planning, Intel's Desktop Platforms Group.

Additionally, D5 Netplay technology will be demonstrated on the technology showcase floor through featured electronics products currently on the market including GoVideo, Gateway and OP.

"In today's home networking environment, the PC contains much of the content that consumers want to have available in their various entertainment centers," said Scott Tandy, Digital 5's Vice President of Marketing. "Digital 5 is pleased to have the opportunity to share their networking vision with key technology leaders and to demonstrate a product that allows consumers to access their PC and Internet-based content when and where they want, utilizing low cost and ubiquitous devices."

Digital 5's Netplay technology is a very low-cost approach that enables the transformation of existing CE device designs into products capable of receiving streaming video and audio content as well as displaying digital photo slide shows via a wired or wireless home network. These products enable the end customer to enjoy all of their stored media content, previously only accessible at the PC, in a home theatre environment. Exciting consumer products enabled with Digital 5's revolutionary Netplay technology have hit the online shopping channels and will be hitting the retail shelves soon.

About Digital 5, Inc.

Digital 5, Inc. is the award-winning supplier of consumer electronics networking technology to premier silicon and consumer electronics companies. As the leading provider of complete software product designs for connected digital audio and video products, D5 brings fundamentally new capabilities to market for leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs). Digital 5's Netplay consumer electronics networking technology ensures low-cost and feature-rich product designs that translate quickly to the shipment of cutting-edge, high-volume consumer products. With headquarters in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and operations in California and India, Digital 5 can be contacted on the World Wide Web at http://www.digital5.com/.

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