High-performance end-to-end VoD environment handles delivery, billing, and end-user personalisation

Singapore – March 20, 2007 – ANYTIME, Asia Pacific’s leading Video on-Demand (VoD) channel, has announced ‘ANYTIME Absolute’, an end-to-end Broadband TV technical solution to be used for ANYTIME-TV across Asia Pacific.

ANYTIME-TV is a premium VoD service that makes Hollywood blockbuster movies, local films, premium TV, music videos and other entertainment available on-Demand across Asia Pacific. It's an ultra-convenient, reliable and affordable way for people to access the entertainment they want, when they want it.

The ANYTIME Absolute solution will deliver and manage ANYTIME-TV’s content using applications from the world’s leading VoD, technology, network infrastructure and e-commerce providers including Akamai, Entriq, WebSideStory and WorldPay.

The solution is critical to enabling ANYTIME-TV viewers to have a personal and reliable VoD experience while ensuring that content is kept secure at all times.

Akamai enables ANYTIME-TV to provide a satisfying consumer experience by offering an interactive, fast and reliable storefront, as well as flawless media and software downloads across Asia Pacific. Entriq will manage ANYTIME-TV’s pay media infrastructure by providing solutions for customer support, protecting its VoD content and enabling a range of flexible pricing and packaging solutions.

WebSideStory will bring its suite of on-demand digital marketing applications to ANYTIME Absolute. These applications include web analytics, site search, web content management and keyword bid management. WorldPay, a market leading payment service provider trusted by thousands of businesses globally, will provide real-time transaction processing for the VoD service.

ANYTIME’s proprietary Content Management System (CMS) will integrate with ANYTIME Absolute to give content owners a robust platform for carrying their video and multimedia content, introducing a new channel for revenue.

“The ANYTIME Absolute solution provides ANYTIME-TV with state-of-the-art distribution, content management, commerce, and customer support abilities,” said President and CEO of ANYTIME Craig Zimbulis.

“It gives our technical and content partners confidence knowing that ANYTIME-TV has a consistent, and robust platform that can serve the region, and ensures that end-users, the consumer, have a compelling, intuitive VoD service.”

The ANYTIME-TV experience will be enhanced by the Intel® ViivTM technology digital entertainment platform, powered by the Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor that provides a high performance, great digital media experience. Intel Viiv technology helps connect the PC and TV, and enables consumers to access, manage, share and enjoy the extensive digital entertainment programs offered by ANYTIME-TV that corresponds to the family’s entertainment needs.

When launched, ANYTIME-TV will give viewers a personal VoD gateway allowing them to customise a storefront, receive alerts on new content according to their tastes, and choose from a multitude of billing options designed to suit their lifestyle and budget.

ANYTIME-TV will be rolled-out in phases during 2007. Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Korea, and Taiwan will be among the first markets to get the ANYTIME-TV service, followed by other markets across Asia Pacific.

For more information: www.anytimeondemand.com.

About ANYTIME

ANYTIME is Asia Pacific’s leading Video on-Demand channel delivered to consumers over IPTV, broadband and digital cable networks. With output deals and access to the libraries of five of Hollywood’s leading studios – Fox, Sony, Warner, NBC Universal and Buena Vista (Disney) International Television—and licenses with regional content providers like Celestial Pictures, ICON Film Distribution, ANYTIME has an unsurpassed programming line-up.

When added to proven technology, ANYTIME delivers compelling content with the control and convenience that consumers demand. ANYTIME has existing carriage deals in Australia, India, China, Taiwan and Thailand, and the rights to license into 15 territories in Asia Pacific.

ANYTIME’s shareholder’s include Columbia Pictures Entertainment Holdings Inc. (Sony), Fox Media Services Inc., Intel Capital, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., YTC Group (a Singapore based multinational conglomerate), and the Macquarie Bank Group.

About ANYTIME-TV

ANYTIME-TV will deliver the world’s widest range of Hollywood blockbuster movies, Chinese movies, premium TV, games and music videos. It will provide a whole new level of convenience for video entertainment. ANYTIME-TV will be an ultra-convenient, reliable and affordable way for people everywhere to get the video entertainment they want, when they want it.