SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 – Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of a worldwide joint license agreement for patents deemed essential to implementing CableLabs® OpenCable™ Applications Platform 1.0 (OCAP™) specifications. The joint OCAP patent license provides a cost-effective process for device manufacturers and service providers to license patents essential to the OCAP specification.

The OCAP specification enables device manufacturers and service providers to design products that will run successfully on any cable television system that deploys OCAP services, independent of set-top box or television receiver hardware or operating system software. The essential patents addressed in this new license agreement are owned by Comcast, LG Electronics, Inc., Open TV, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.), Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, and Time Warner Cable.

"OCAP's promise is to dramatically increase the ability of cable companies to create and deploy new interactive services for consumers while ensuring that interactive content will run on different cable systems, set-top boxes, and consumer electronic devices," said Helene Jay, Via Licensing's Director, Business Development in Europe. "Via is excited to be a part of this emerging market and commends all OCAP essential patent holders for their hard work in developing this joint license agreement."

Companies that offer OCAP end-user products or subscription-based pay television services that deploy OCAP services should visit www.vialicensing.com to learn more about the terms of the joint patent license and to request a sample agreement for review. The basic license fees are as follows:

Fee Type	Price
Licensed Products	$1.50 per device
Service Providers	$0.30 per subscriber per year (or one-time five-year license for $1.50)

Joint licensing programs provide the market with a convenient and cost-effective way to obtain licenses to patents essential to the practice of a standard. By doing so, the programs encourage greater adoption of the standard. Without such a joint license, the process of providing and obtaining necessary licenses would be more cumbersome and expensive for all parties.

CableLabs published the OCAP specification and defined a generic interface between interactive digital applications and the terminals on which these applications execute. With OCAP services, digital content providers can address all types of OCAP capable terminals including low- to high-end set-top boxes, integrated digital TV sets, and multimedia PCs.

About Via Licensing Corporation

Via Licensing Corporation develops and administers patent licensing programs on behalf of innovative technology companies and for the convenience of licensees. Via Licensing Corporation is a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., and benefits from the expertise, infrastructure, and strategic business relationships that Dolby has developed in more than 35 years of licensing into the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Via Licensing is involved in the development and operation of licensing programs for both mandated and de facto or emerging standards. For more information about Via Licensing Corporation, please visit www.vialicensing.com.

CableLabs, OCAP, and Open Cable are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. S06/17378