TV2Me(R) Vows to Raise the Bar On Picture Quality Yet Again

TV2Me(R) Vows to Raise the Bar On Picture Quality Yet Again

Forthcoming Gen 2 Model from Place Shifting Innovator Expected to Set New Standard for the Market

NEW YORK and MANILA, Philippines, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In conjunction with the partnership forged with Emphasis Services Limited (ESL) and the formation of the new jointly owned company TV2Me Laboratories Ltd., K2B Incorporated founder and TV2Me(R) inventor Ken Schaffer has vowed to continue raising the bar on picture quality in the rapidly evolving "place shifting" arena as the company brings to market its next generation of the product.

Place shifting technology streams video from a home television cable box or satellite dish direct to a laptop, mobile phone or any other Internet-connected device. TV2Me is the innovator and recognized quality leader in the market, having introduced the concept in 2003 and developed near perfect TV picture quality, regardless of image size.

An independent review in The New York Times "Circuits" section in 2003 proclaimed: "The quality of [TV2Me's] full-screen images bore no resemblance to what the rest of the world thinks of as streaming Internet video. Even on the big screen, the images are fluid and clear."

Transmitting video via the Internet has posed a technical challenge for the multi-billion dollar media industry for more than a decade. The challenge is loading enough pixels on the screen fast enough to keep up with the picture speed. Most streaming video images are still a relatively small size because it is easier to deliver a picture to a small screen than a large screen.

New entrants to the place shifting arena have gained attention by introducing products for the mobile phone market where the technical hurdles are far less challenging.

"The concept of watching TV on a cell phone is intriguing," says Schaffer, who has devoted his career to stretching the bounds of signals and radio transmission to create innovative products, including the first wireless guitar. "The hard part is delivering high resolution on a standard-size laptop or, even more impressive, a 42-inch LCD TV screen. It's hard to imagine very many people inviting their friends over to watch the Super Bowl on a Nokia. We are transporting near perfect clones of home TV programming for viewing on the device of the consumer's choice -- no matter what the size."

The original TV2Me design is in daily use on four continents, serving hundreds of users with full-screen, large-screen, access to all the TV they would have at home, or in their city of interest. Early adopters include leading educators, diplomats, sportsmen and rock stars, frequent business travelers and emigres from many countries.

Among the most passionate TV2Me users is Jonathan Sanders, a veteran CBS News Moscow correspondent and winner of the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Television Journalism. "The quality is astonishing, and quality counts," Sanders says. "This technology fills my big screen with the bigness of Russia. My mind thinks it is Moscow as my fingers roam the remote control on my desktop in New York."

About TV2Me

TV2Me(R) does for space what TiVo(R) does for time. Its breakthrough technology gives users the ability to shift space, and to watch all the cable or satellite TV channels of any place they choose -- live, in full motion, with unparalleled television-quality -- on any Internet connected device. TV2Me was created by an international team that previously developed satellite tracking systems, such as the breakthrough system that made it possible for U.S. agencies and universities to monitor the internal television of the then Soviet Union. For more information on TV2Me, please visit http://www.tv2me.com/ .

About K2B, Inc.

K2B, Inc. is a privately-held, internationally-financed, New York-based research laboratory with a notable history of breaking through transmissions barriers and has decisively defined standards for transmitting high-quality television over fragile, narrow bandwidth connections. K2B founder Ken Schaffer is legendary in the broadcast, staging and recording industries as the inventor of the wireless guitar and microphone.

About Emphasis Services Limited

Emphasis Services Limited ("ESL") has been providing gaming related services in the Asia Pacific Region since 2001, maintaining its headquarters in Manila, Philippines, with an experienced team of employees and consultants located in Cambodia, China (PRC), Indonesia, Japan, Macau, Malaysia and Thailand. ESL has swiftly become one of Asia's most influential online entertainment companies. One of ESL's principal business lines is live videostream casino gaming. Please visit http://www.esl-asia.com/ for more information.

Source: TV2Me

CONTACT: John Howlett of Ruder Finn for TV2Me, +1-312-329-3906,
howlettj@ruderfinn.com

Web site: http://www.tv2me.com/
http://www.esl-asia.com/

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