Digital Vision BitPack installed at Eclair in France

Digital Vision BitPack installed at Eclair in France Las Vegas, April 19, 1999 - Digital Vision announces the installation of their BitPack MPEG2 pre-mastering workstation to the major film laboratory and post- production facility Eclair in France. "We decided to purchase the Digital Vision BitPack system because we are very satisfied with the Digital Vision DVNR Image Processing Workstation that we installed already three years ago. With BitPack we can obtain the excellent picture quality that is the trademark of Digital Vision, also for pre- mastering and DVD", said Christian Ninaud, Technical Director at Eclair. Per-Olov Nilsson, Sales and Marketing Director at Digital Vision said: "We are very proud to associate ourselves with Eclair, which is the largest and most important film laboratory in France. We are looking forward to a close collaboration with Eclair in the future." Founded at the beginning of this century Eclair is the largest and most legendary film laboratory in France. More than 60% of all 35-mm film in France is processed by Eclair. The BitPack system is a complete solution for Video servers, off-line encoding and DVD pre-mastering. It is a turnkey MPEG2 Workstation for highest quality MPEG2 pre-processing and compression encoding. Digital Vision is a leading manufacturer of digital processing equipment for the post-production, pre-mastering and telecommunications industries. The company was founded in 1988 and sells its products throughout Europe, North America and Asia. Digital Vision received an Emmy Award in 1992 for its work on advanced motion compensation technology as applied to standard converters. The company also holds the IABM Peter Wayne Award for New Technology for BitPack@, its MPEG2 pre-mastering workstation and the ITS Monitor Award in recognition for the Advanced Scratch and Dirt concealer. Digital Vision's headquarters is based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company also maintains international sales and support offices in London and Los Angeles. Sales throughout the rest of the world are handled via a network of more than 25 distributors. Thus Digital Vision has a strong presence on the world market. For more information, please contact: Karin Cedronius, Digital Vision DV Sweden AB Upplagsvägen 1, S-117 43 Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 18 24 65, Fax: +46 8 18 24 66 E-mail: karinc@digitalvision.se US contacts: Hugh Heinsohn, Digital Vision (US) Inc., +1 310 914-5200 or Linda Frank,Visible Ink, +1 818 249-8885 Web site: www.digitalvision.se ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/19/19990419BIT00430/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/04/19/19990419BIT00430/bit0002.pdf