An emerging digital media company known as “Building B” has been attracting some of entertainment and technology’s most well-known leaders. In a broad reaching industry collaboration, Building B has amassed over the last year a management team, board of directors and advisory panel comprised of executives from throughout the entertainment and technology industries. The company has also recently attracted funding from Morgenthaler Ventures, Omni Capital, Index Ventures and private investors in a $17.5 million financing round.

Building B’s management team has been carefully constructed to include key executives from each critical area of its business model, including prior senior executives from such entertainment companies as CBS, NBC, MTV Networks, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Showtime and Viacom. Individuals on the management team have also led technology and market innovations while at Sony, Numerical Technologies, Liquid Audio, Clearwire and Bell Labs.

Joining Building B’s board of directors are Andy Lack, Sony BMG Music Entertainment chairman; Dr. Arun Netravali, managing director of Omni Capital and recipient of the National Medal of Technology for his pioneering contributions to HDTV; and Bob Pavey, a partner at Morgenthaler Ventures and an early investor in several industry defining technology companies, including Apple Computer.

“By aligning with experts from the entertainment and technology industries who understand the complexities of creating a new video entertainment platform, we have a formidable team that is collaborating with partners across multiple segments within the industry,” said Building B co-founder and chief executive officer Buno Pati. “We are pleased to have industry visionaries, innovators and luminaries such as Andy Lack, Arun Netravali and Bob Pavey join the Building B effort.”

While many new forms of video delivery have developed in recent years, the independent evolution of offerings has created a cluttered and confusing combination of content, networks and devices for consumers.

“The current state of video entertainment today is similar to the early days of digital music,” said Phil Wiser, Building B co-founder, president and chairman, and former Sony CTO and founder of digital music pioneer Liquid Audio. “To help bring the industry to the next level, we will deliver a platform that gives consumers a complete, modern video experience that is elegant and instantly accessible, rather than require the consumer to learn how to put all of the pieces together and then pay an exorbitant price.”

Building B was founded to create a new entertainment platform that cost-effectively delivers the features consumers’ desire while providing new opportunities for the television industry. Building B is differentiated in its approach by starting with traditional content that is viewed and expected in the living room today. The service consists of a turn-key home video entertainment solution that seamlessly integrates traditional television content in HDTV and extends it with on-demand premium content and Internet video -- all delivered to the living room television without the need for a PC.

Building B’s platform also benefits other industry participants. Content partners can further extend their brands while seamlessly integrating their traditional, library and online content. Advertisers can take advantage of the platforms ability to deliver advertising that is more relevant and targeted to viewers’ interests. Broadcasters can leverage the platform to more effectively promote new programming, increase viewership of locally produced content and achieve more attractive advertising rates.

Building B leverages the unique strengths of wireless broadcast technology and the Internet to create an advanced video platform that works in America’s living rooms today. Telecommunications and wireless providers can benefit from Building B’s platform because it is a perfect video companion to existing high speed Internet and VOIP offerings and does not require billions of dollars of capital investment for additional infrastructure. Building B is working with broadcasters, content providers, advertisers, broadband service providers and consumer electronics companies to roll out the service.

About “Building B”
“Building B” is an entertainment technology and services company that has developed a breakthrough on-demand video entertainment platform and service that works within America’s homes today—without expensive service provider infrastructure upgrades. The service consists of a turn-key home video entertainment solution that seamlessly integrates traditional television content in HDTV and extends it with on-demand premium content and Internet video -- all delivered to the living room television without the need for a PC. For more information, visit www.building-b.com.

Can Independent producers make on-line and IPTV pay? What are the hurtles to monetizing content, are there success stories and how and why have they made it? We are putting together a panel of industry veterans who will walk through case studies, offer participants an expanded question, and answer session

Day Three - Thursday, November 08, 2007
Track A: (A302) 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Selling Content Online and IPTV: Can Independent Producers Succeed?

The meeting, held in Nashville Tennessee, focused on elements critical to the success of IPTV on a global scale. The Forum, which has also formed an IPTV Oversight Committee, met to discuss the areas identified for future work including transport improvements around VDSL2, policy control framework and network performance improvements as well as home networking optimisation, including IPTV remote management and Set Top Box (STB) initiation advancements.

Mark Wegleitner, CTO of Verizon Communications, provided the key note speech, in which he confirmed Verizon’s commitment to working alongside the DSL Forum in continuing the development of IPTV and other standards and creating quality of experience for end users.

“We have worked closely with the DSL Forum for many years, using its TR69 specification (CPE WAN Management Protocol) and BroadbandHome in our developments, and have established a long and profitable relationship, which we hope will last for many more years to come,” explains Mr Wegleitner.

“If done well, IPTV promises to increase revenue, attract new subscribers and reduce customer churn,” explained George Dobrowski, DSL Forum Chairman and President. “As such, it is at the top of the agenda for service providers and equipment vendors around the world. The DSL Forum is working with its members to develop specifications and to establish best practices to aid the successful and profitable deployment of IPTV.”

Through a thorough intra-Forum and industry gap analysis, the DSL Forum laid out a work plan to expedite IPTV standards and best practices.

DSL Forum’s IPTV Related Work
Focus Area
Completed Work
Work in Progress at the DSL Forum
New work being initiated
Digital Home

TR-069 CPE WAN Management Protocol
TR-098 Internet Gateway Device Data Model
TR-140 Data Model for a TR-069 Enabled Storage Device
WT-135 Residential Data Model for a TR-069 enabled Set Top Box

IPTV Installation Best Practices White Paper
IPTV configuration Best Practices White Paper
Quad-play service Management
CWMP Test and Interoperability spec
Next Generation Access

TR-101 Migration to IP Ethernet Access Aggregation
TR-126 Triple Play Quality of Experience Requirements
WT-114 VDSL2 performance test plan
WT-115 VDSL2 functionality test plan
WT-156 Extending TR-101 to GPON

DSL Line Profiles
DSM/DLM for Video Services
Transport & Home Network Quality of Service and Experience Testing for IPTV delivery
Network Operations & Policy Control
TR-130 xDSL EMS to NMS Interface Functional Requirements
TR-129 Protocol-Independent Management Model for Next Generation DSL technologies
W-134 Policy Control Management Framework
WT-147 Layer 2 Control Mechanism
PD- 160 IPTV Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics
WT-159 Management Framework for xDSL Bonding

Focusing on three key areas – the digital home, the access network and the control plane- the Forum’s BroadbandSuite is a toolkit designed to minimise provisioning and maintenance issues for service and application providers by enabling components to interoperate together as seamlessly as possible.

The DSL Forum’s quarterly meeting was held at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel between 27th and 30th August.

The next meeting is scheduled for December 10-13th in Lisbon Portugal. For further information, please go to http://www.dslforum.org/about/join.shtml or contact Laurie Gonzalez at laurie@dslforum.org.

About the DSL Forum

The DSL Forum tailors broadband to meet the needs of the next generation of multi-media services and the online community. By forging agreements on common technical requirements and embracing new applications, the Forum works to streamline processes, define specifications, and share best practices that set the stage for effective deployments and explosive global DSL growth. Established in 1994, the DSL Forum is an international industry consortium of over 200 leading service providers, equipment manufacturers and other interested parties. Please visit www.dslforum.org for more information.

Amsterdam IBC Stand 8.331, September 10, 2007 - Pilat Media, the leading
specialist provider of broadcast management systems, today unveiled the
industry's first personalised advertising system. The company is
demonstrating the automatic insertion of advertising according to the
household or individual subscriber profile across all platforms -
digital TV, IPTV and mobile TV.

For the first time in the industry, Pilat Media is delivering on the
promise of advertising personalised to the household or consumer based
on who is watching, what they are viewing, the time of day, and
location, together with all the underlying business process to book, air
and bill the advertising.

Pilat Media has unparalleled experience in delivering TV advertising
worldwide with its IBMS system currently managing $20 billion of TV
advertising sales annually, including 1.8 million advertising spots for
Fox each month alone. 18 months after deploying IBMS, Network 10 in
Australia jumped from number three in advertising sales profitability to
the number one slot.

"With the growth of triple and quad play providers, there is a wealth of
untapped information about subscribers including viewing habits, web
browsing habits and mobile phone handset ownership," said Avi Engel, CEO
of Pilat Media. "Although video splicing technology has been available
for some time, this is the first time broadcasters' systems can
automatically make intelligent decisions on-the-fly about which
advertisements will be most relevant to each recipient. Without the
business intelligence, personalized advertising is nothing more than
random guesswork."

"Broadcasters and advertisers are wrestling with the challenges of
reaching today's media multi-tasking consumer," said Bob Lamb, CTO of
Pilat Media. "This new technology will be a powerful tool to help
broadcasters and telcos compete against on-line advertising by
increasing the effectiveness of advertising and maximizing every
eye-ball opportunity."

IBMS already increases advertising sales effectiveness by managing
airtime availability in real time, pricing it sensitive to the market
and enabling customers to contract with clients more quickly and
flexibly.

It analyzes rates and ratings as well as inventory usage and yield. The
system interfaces with third party software to calculate reach and
frequency to track spot availability against contractual target goals.

Pilat Media's upcoming enhancements to IBMS integrate with all major
video distribution systems. For the demo at IBC, Pilat Media has
collaborated with BitBand, the IPTV video delivery network industry
leaders.

BitBand is a leading provider of Video Delivery Networks with strong
emphasis on ensuring high quality of subscriber experience for both
on-demand and live content. BitBand has been operating in the IPTV
market since 2000 with solutions supporting a wide and global customer
base of over 40 service providers worldwide, amongst them more than 20
in Europe.

Latest Version of Wowza Media Server™ Pro Enables Large-Scale Live Flash
Streaming at One-Tenth the Cost of FMS; Boasts Advanced Service Provider
Features

SAN JOSE, CA, September 10, 2007—Wowza Media Systems, an emerging leader
in streaming media server software, today announced the launch of Wowza
Media Server Pro 1.3, the latest version of their next-generation
streaming server software that takes live Flash streaming scalability to
new heights and fundamentally redefines the economics of large-scale Flash
streaming.

With Wowza Media Server Pro 1.3, enterprises and service providers can now
deploy large-scale live streaming capability at one-tenth the cost of the
Adobe® Flash Media Server (FMS2) origin-edge edition, the only solution
that was previously available to them. The Wowza Pro advantage is the
result of advanced service-oriented features incorporated as standard
elements in all Wowza Pro editions to greatly simplify scalability,
management and content protection.

Among Wowza Media Server Pro 1.3’s new features:

• Live Stream Repeater, a standard function in all Wowza Pro editions that
allows live streams to be replicated across multiple servers, and further
enhances the already unmatched live streaming performance of Wowza Media
Server Pro.
• Centralized Configuration Management capability that lets users
configure multiple Wowza Media Server Pro instances from a single
configuration management server.
• SecureToken content protection against stream-ripping threats like
Replay Media Catcher assures content owners of the security of their
assets.
• Customizable Media Readers allow flexible server extensibility, which,
for example, enable SHOUTcast restreaming and open the path for future
streaming of H.264 encoded content to the soon-to-be-released version of
Adobe’s Flash player.

“As we’re expanding our deployment of Wowza Pro servers, having the
ability to manage configurations centrally, monitor and provide the
customer-facing view of the server performance, and secure the content, is
critical to meeting the service levels our customers expect,” said Eduardo
Martinez, Technical Service Manager, StreamGuys. “The functionality Wowza
provides and their responsiveness to our needs as a service provider is
right on target.”

In a recent Contentinople article about Wowza’s partnership with global
CDN Interoute, Mark Lewis, Director of Voice and Commercial Software at
Interoute, was equally enthusiastic: "Interoute has shifted all its Flash
streaming business to the Wowza platform -- no other vendors will be
offered. The reason is simple -- Flash has enormous market penetration but
the false economics of current Flash streaming pricing hinder its wider
adoption."

Wowza Media Server Pro has achieved great market traction with its robust
functionality and superior economics. Since its launch in February 2007,
the product has racked up over 2000 global licenses from well-known
players like Macy’s, Thomson Learning and Julius Blum GmBH, as well as
numerous service providers, including the UK’s Astream and the Dutch
provider NetMasters, along with global CDNs Interoute and StreamGuys.

“Flash streaming and live streaming in particular are clearly on the rapid
rise and we see many opportunities for enterprises and service providers
to reap the benefits of the Wowza solution,” commented David Stubenvoll,
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Wowza Media Systems. “We continue
to redefine Flash streaming by providing superior functionality and
enabling the market to deliver Flash at Windows Media prices.”

For more information on Wowza Media Server Pro 1.3, including product
documentation and prices, or to download a free Wowza Pro10 edition,
visit: www.wowzamedia.com/store.html.
About Wowza Media Systems
Wowza Media Systems, a software company headquartered in San Jose, CA, is
a developer of interactive streaming media server software. Its flagship
product, Wowza Media Server Pro, features an innovative server
architecture that delivers unmatched performance, functionality, and
scalability at a total cost of ownership up to 80% less than the leading
alternative, Adobe Flash Media Server. Wowza Media Server Pro enables
customers like Macy’s, Thomson Learning, and Julius Blum GmbH to deliver
interactive and entertaining Flash applications and content, including
video on demand, live video distribution, video recording, and chat, and
is finding application in a broad range of industries, including
entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education,
government, and Internet commerce. For more information, visit Wowza Media
Systems at www.wowzamedia.com.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital Fountain™, Inc., a leading provider of advanced, standardized software solutions and services for optimizing digital media delivery, and Neptuny, a leading provider of IPTV services and solutions, today announced the launch of a new server-based software solution to dramatically improve quality of service for IPTV providers. ToughStream Server™ is a stand-alone, enterprise class software solution that can be installed on a standard server within an operator’s IPTV head-end, protecting the entire network against packet loss, the leading cause of IPTV customer complaints.

ToughStream Server was jointly developed under a new partnership between Digital Fountain and Neptuny. Based on Digital Fountain’s ToughStream solution, ToughStream Server includes additional technology from Neptuny that enables fast, easy deployment of ToughStream on an IPTV provider’s standard server equipment. Because it is a highly flexible, highly configurable software solution, ToughStream Server can be installed, configured, and fully deployed in a very short period of time.

Digital Fountain and Neptuny will be demonstrating this new solution at IBC 2007, RAI, Amsterdam. Visit Neptuny at booth # 3.200, and Digital Fountain at booth # IP322 in the IPTV Zone.

“ToughStream Server enables our IPTV customers to deploy the benefits of our ToughStreamTM technology faster and easier than ever before,” said Charlie Oppenheimer, CEO of Digital Fountain. “This new offering will provide increased levels of flexibility and performance, while still delivering the very best packet loss protection that IPTV providers expect from Digital Fountain.”

“The combination of Neptuny’s innovative high availability server technology with Digital Fountain’s ToughStream packet loss software creates a unique and powerful solution,” said Fabio Violante, CEO of Neptuny. IPTV providers now have a carrier-grade, easy-to-deploy solution for ensuring quality of service across their entire network.”

ToughStream Server is compatible with any standard Linux server, and is can be deployed in a fully redundant configuration with low switching times (less than 2 seconds) to enable continuous, uninterrupted, high-quality IPTV service. ToughStream Server incorporates Digital Fountain’s DF RaptorTM Forward Error Correction technology, which has been adopted by several IPTV standards, including DVB-IPTV (Digital Video Broadcasting – IPTV). Other standards bodies are currently evaluating DF Raptor as a best practices standard for high-quality IPTV service delivery.

LONDON / NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 6, 2007 – Narrowstep™ (OTC BB: NRWS) the TV on the Internet company, and theONE.tv recently launched a new Internet TV channel focusing on live music entertainment. theONE.tv will showcase performances from some the world’s most iconic venues including a new series of October launch concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles.

Available to anyone with a broadband connection, theONE.tv is a global 24/7 music broadcaster, using Narrowstep’s Internet TV platform telvOSTM, to deliver the highest quality video possible on the Internet. theONE.tv will feature some of the world’s finest musicians and is working with major artists and music venues in the UK and US to film and broadcast live concerts globally over the Internet and via mobile phone.

“The key to capturing the energy and excitement of a live music event, is in the quality of the video,” said Todd Narwid, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Narrowstep. “At Narrowstep we pride ourselves in our ability to deliver long-form video over the Internet in true, television-like quality.”

Enabling Broadcasters and Telcos to Manage Scheduling, Rights Management
and Contractual Commitments for Thousands of Films, Programs and Adverts
Pilat Media homepage

Amsterdam, IBC Stand 8.331, September 6, 2007 - Pilat Media, the leading
specialist provider of broadcast management systems, today announced
that it is demonstrating an upcoming version of IBMS designed to handle
both non-linear (IPTV and VOD) and linear programming and advertising at
IBC.

To date, IPTV service providers have typically scheduled a small number
of assets - including films, TV programs and adverts - and have been
limited to basic tools such as spreadsheets. As they enhance their
services and the number of VOD assets that they manage grows to tens of
thousands, they are demanding more sophisticated tools to manage their
programming, rights management and contractual studio commitments.

Pilat Media has proven its ability to manage huge volumes of assets with
customers including Fox, Five and Discovery. Over 5000 users use Pilat
Media's IBMS broadcast management system on a daily basis.

Pilat Media is now bringing this experience and tools to broadcasters
and telco operators who are launching IPTV platforms. It has already
partnering with several customers to manage video-on-demand download
services.

"Many businesses are rushing to put content online. But without a solid
business infrastructure it will be hard to make money from it," said Avi
Engel, CEO of Pilat Media. "IPTV providers are finding that the more
assets they offer, the scheduling issues become exponentially complex.
For example, the contractual obligations from studios might stipulate
that certain films have to be offered with no advertising and only to
certain audiences. We can now ensure that customers take maximum
advantage of their content rights."

IBMS automates the management of all IPTV scheduling, rights management,
regulation and internal business rules, royalty payments and contractual
metrics. The scheduling team has an easy-to-use graphical interface to
drag and drop programming into the schedule and see at-a-glance how the
business is meeting contractual obligations and maximising business
opportunities. For those broadcasters who already use IBMS, they will
have a single integrated solution for managing both linear and
non-linear assets.

"For IPTV operators, the technology part of BSS and OSS is the
relatively easy part," said Bob Lamb, CTO at Pilat Media. "Without the
functionally-rich supporting system all that technology is meaningless.
We make the data relevant and help customers profit from their assets."

About Pilat Media

Pilat Media develops, markets and supports operations and business
management software for the global multi-channel broadcasting market.
The company's products and solutions support broadcasters and content
providers in streamlining and integrating content management, airtime
scheduling, media trafficking and advertising sales from rights
acquisition to transmission. The company has approximately 260 staff
across its London, Denver, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Sydney offices and
fifty clients worldwide, including Fox, CTV, BB