Oxygen Media Selects TANDBERG Television to Enable VOD Content Production

ATLANTA, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- NCTA National Show 2005 -- Booth #6474 -- TANDBERG Television (Oslo: TAT.OL) today announced that Oxygen Media has chosen the TANDBERG Television Xport(TM) Producer to enable its production of video-on-demand (VOD) content. Xport provides cable operators, content providers and aggregators with easy-to-use tools to prepare and manage their own VOD content. Oxygen's selection of the Xport solution emphasizes Xport's position as the top VOD content production solution in the industry, having been deployed in more than 60 markets to date.

"The growing market opportunity for providing dynamic VOD content is undeniable, and we needed an end-to-end solution with which to manage and produce our current on-demand offerings to Comcast, Time Warner and Adelphia," said Michele Taylor, Vice President, Broadcast Operations, Oxygen Media. "Since the TANDBERG Xport is based on open standards, it allows us to implement best-of-breed solutions in order to provide on-demand content to our customers efficiently and cost-effectively."

With Xport, TANDBERG Television customers can complete "one-click" encoding, create CableLabs(R)-compliant metadata, edit content, insert ads and other video clips, and prepare content for distribution.

"As more cable subscribers demand VOD programming, content providers are seeking the most efficient and scalable solutions available to produce and distribute their VOD content," said Reggie Bradford, President, TANDBERG Television Inc. "We are pleased that Oxygen Media has recognized the scalability of our Xport solution as it continues to build out programming for its rapidly growing on-demand audience."

The Xport Producer is part of the TANDBERG Television Xport Digital Media Solutions family of products for cable operators and content providers. Other products in the Xport family include:

   - Xport Recorder/Slicer -- automates encoding and packaging of linear
     (broadcast) content
   - Xport Streamer -- produces standard-definition and high-definition
     linear broadcast streams for delivery of local cable television
     services

Xport is commercially deployed by leading customers including HBO, Comcast, Starz Entertainment Group, Discovery Communications, Time Warner Cable, iN DEMAND, and WWE.

About Oxygen Media

Oxygen Media is a 24-hour cable television network that puts a fresh spin on television for women. Oxygen airs a diverse array of original series including the spontaneous, unscripted, daily Oprah After the Show, the hidden camera prank show, Girls Behaving Badly, and the live call-in show, Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. Oxygen is also the home base for Ellen DeGeneres with the acquisition of her hit talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show and sitcom Ellen. Oxygen airs more original programming and delivers the youngest audience of all the women's networks. Founded in 1998, the network is independently owned and now available in more than 54 million cable households. Oxygen Media also owns and operates http://www.oxygen.com/ .

About TANDBERG Television

TANDBERG Television (Oslo: TAT.OL) designs and develops professional systems that enable new business models in the media and entertainment market through the delivery of high quality live digital video and on-demand content. The company provides open standards-based technology solutions, systems integration, support and monitoring through its sales and 24-hour support operations in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. TANDBERG Television's customers include many of the major broadcasters, network operators, telephone companies, cable operators and content owners around the world. For more information visit: http://www.tandbergtv.com/

On February 4th 2005 TANDBERG Television completed its acquisition of N2 Broadband Inc., a provider of scalable, open-platform solutions for on-demand entertainment. These award winning on-demand products are now available from TANDBERG Television under the brand of N2 On-Demand Solutions.