Optimus Clix Achieves 100% Time-Shift TV Services Increase in 5 Months With Espial MediaBase

OTTAWA, Ontario — Espial (TSX:ESP), a leader in on-demand TV solutions and services announced that Optimus Clix has doubled the usage of its Time-Shift TV Services in the first 5 months of 2010. Optimus Clix is a brand of Sonaecom (Lisbon:SNC), a fixed and mobile telecom operator in Portugal with a national DSL network reaching 1.6 million homes and a FTTH deployment already covering more than 200,000 households. As part of their triple-play service, customers can subscribe to Optimus Clix TV, its IPTV solution.

• Optimus Clix achieves 100% growth during first 5 months of the year on its Time-Shift TV service.
• Espial MediaBase powers on-demand TV services to Optimus Clix TV customer base over its ADSL and FTTH national network.
• The Optimus Clix TV service includes:
  • over 150 broadcast television channels
  • more than 3,000 video-on-demand (VOD) assets
  • subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services
  • interactive applications such as Games, Facebook, Twitter and Karaoke
• Optimus Clix is significantly investing to enhance its TV service:
  • In 2009, Optimus Clix increased its VOD catalog to over 3,000 titles targeting different categories, needs and user preferences.
  • Optimus Clix has signed new contracts with:
    • major studios like Disney, Sony, Warner and Paramount in 2009 and 2010
    • important local content providers
  • TV VOD now offers the latest and most successful blockbusters in SD and HD.
• Espial MediaBase provides an open API so service providers can easily offer innovative on-demand services. Optimus took advantage of this to introduce the following new services in 2009:
  • On-demand karaoke service featuring more than 400 international titles
  • Restart TV a unique service in the Portuguese market, it allows customers to tune in after the start of a currently broadcast program and watch it from the beginning.