Tut Systems Hits Home Run With Major League Baseball

Tut Systems Hits Home Run With Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLB.com) installs Tut Systems IP video encoding platforms at professional ballparks to deliver broadcast-quality video to its central editing facilities in New York

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., April 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tut Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:TUTS), an industry leader enabling the delivery of next-generation data and video services over broadband networks, today announced that Major League Baseball Advanced Media (BAM), the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball, has deployed its Astria(R) platform to encode and deliver digital video across its network connecting every major league ballpark with its central studio in New York City.

The Astria platforms are used to encode broadcast-quality MPEG-2 4:2:2 and MPEG-2 4:2:0 video and transport it to and from the BAM studios in New York. BAM utilizes the content for multiple applications including: real-time editing and re-distribution of content; production of team and player highlight footage; Internet-based broadcasts of MLB games as well as pre- and post-game coverage; and video archiving of MLB footage.

"MLB.com was looking for a total solution that supported a variety of live and stored video applications," said Joseph A. Inzerillo, Senior VP of Multimedia & Distribution, of MLB Advanced Media. "After evaluating a number of solutions, we found that the Tut Systems solution provided the best flexibility to support IP video transport, while still delivering pristine video to our central studio in New York. Operationally, evolving to an all-IP video platform allows us to efficiently manage the many video applications that deliver our fans a compelling and ubiquitous baseball experience."

"Major League Baseball.com continues to demonstrate its leadership role in professional sports entertainment as it innovates on behalf of its fan base," said Sal D'Auria, President, CEO and Chairman of Tut Systems. "We're pleased to be part of one of the most far-reaching technological developments in professional baseball and look forward to a exciting 2006 season."

About MLB Advanced Media, LP

Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of Baseball's Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com, and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information on the web, including up-to-date statistics, game summaries, extensive historical information, and exclusive features about Major League Baseball events and programs, including on-line ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live and archived radio broadcasts of every game, live and archived video webcasts of entire games, pitch-by-pitch enactment of games, and hosted post-game video highlight shows. MLB.com offered more live events on the Internet than any other website in the world.

About Tut Systems, Inc.

Tut Systems, Inc. delivers advanced content processing and distribution products as well as comprehensive system integration services for deploying next-generation data and video services over broadband networks. Service providers, content providers and government agencies worldwide use Tut Systems solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video over broadband networks.

Tut Systems is headquartered in Lake Oswego, OR with regional offices across North America, Europe and Asia. For more information visit www.tutsys.com or call (971) 217-0400.

NOTE: Astria is a registered trademark of Tut Systems, Inc.

Source: Tut Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Hilary Goetz of Tut Systems, +1-971-217-0441, or
hgoetz@tutsys.com

Web site: http://www.tutsys.com/
http://www.mlb.com/

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