Microtune Demonstrates Support for ATSC Digital TV Broadcast at 2008 NAB Show

Monday, April 14th, 2008
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Microtune Featured in ATSC/NAB ‘DTV HOT SPOT’ at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, April 14-17, 2008; Demos Showcase Microtune’s State-of-the-Art Multistandard Tuner Chip in NTIA-Certified Converter Boxes

PLANO, Texas — NAB2008 — This week Microtune®, Inc. (NASDAQ: TUNE), a technology and market leader in radio frequency (RF) silicon and systems solutions, will demonstrate its multi-standard tuner chip deployed in certified digital television (DTV) converter boxes at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas.

Microtune will be featured in exhibit number L33 at the ‘DTV HOT SPOT’, a special pavilion co-sponsored by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) and the NAB to demonstrate the most sophisticated technologies in digital television. The ‘DTV HOT SPOT’ is located in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall Upper Lobby and will be open Monday through Wednesday, April 14 – 16, from 9 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Thursday, April 17 from 9 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Microtune’s three-in-one tuner (MicroTuner™ MT2131), the only silicon tuner featured in NTIA-certified converter boxes, was designed specifically for DTV consumer-electronics products. It was engineered to exceed the stringent RF requirements of the ATSC digital TV standard. Microtune will demonstrate NTIA-certified converter boxes at the exhibit.

“With the shut-off of analog television broadcast only eleven months away, increased consumer awareness of the benefits of ATSC standards are necessary to ensure the successful U.S. transition to digital TV transmission,” said James A. Fontaine, President and CEO of Microtune.

“We are pleased to support the ATSC at the 2008 NAB Show to highlight this important issue. Microtune has been a vigorous advocate of stringent DTV high-performance requirements and believes that these specifications are critical to the quality of the consumer TV experience. DTV receiver performance, whether in inexpensive DTV converter boxes or top-of-the-line HDTVs, is a key factor in ensuring that TV viewers can receive stable, consistent digital TV pictures.”

The Advanced Television Systems Committee is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. A subset of its tuner-related specifications (called the A/74 guidelines) was mandated as a baseline performance requirement for digital-to-analog converter boxes that are subsidized by American taxpayers and certified under the coupon eligible converter box (CECB) program of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).