XDC, filiale à 47,2% d'EVS, signe des accords ...

Liège (Belgique) / Cannes  (France), 23 mai 2008.  Dans la foulée  du
succès de ses prestations de services numériques au Festival du  Film
de Cannes 2008,  XDC, la  société leader  dans les  services liés  au
cinéma numérique  en  Europe  et  filiale  à  47,2%  d'EVS  Broadcast
Equipment  S.A.  (Euronext  Bruxelles:  EVS.BR,  Bloomberg  EVS   BB)
(Pinksheets: EVBEF), a annoncé aujourd'hui la signature d'accords non
exclusifs  à  long  terme  avec  Warner  Bros.  Entertainment   Inc.,
Paramount  Pictures   Corporation,   Twentieth   Century   Fox   Film
Corporation  et  The  Walt  Disney  Studios  afin  de  cofinancer  le
déploiement futur  d'un  maximum  de 8.000  installations  de  cinéma
numérique répondant  à  la norme  DCI,  dans 22  pays  européens.  La
période de déploiement s'étendra sur maximum 5 ans, tandis que chaque
écran numérisé sera cofinancé sur une période allant jusqu'à 10  ans.
Ces accords vont cofinancer plus de 65% de la valeur des systèmes  de
cinéma   numérique,   composés    de   projecteurs,   de    serveurs,
d'applications et de services, pour un investissement global  maximum
estimé à EUR 600 millions.

Ces accords  marquent  et faciliteront  le  début du  déploiement  du
cinéma numérique à grande échelle en Europe. Pour XDC, les prochaines
étapes consisteront en la négociation d'accords comparables avec  les
distributeurs de  films  européens,  la  commercialisation  de  cette
proposition de cofinancement aux exploitants  de salles de cinéma  en
Europe et des levées de fonds  (capitaux et dettes) afin de  financer
la phase d'installation de l'infrastructure numérique.

Ce déploiement d'infrastructure aidera également XDC à développer ses
autres activités: la conception  et la commercialisation de  serveurs
et d'applications,  l'installation  et  la  maintenance  de  systèmes
complets de cinéma numérique pour  les exploitants de salles, et  des
services de gestion  et distribution  de contenu  numérique pour  les
distributeurs de films et pour les régies publicitaires.

Le potentiel global est estimé à 35.000 écrans à numériser en Europe.



           XDC Signs Digital Cinema Deployment Agreements
with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation,
 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and The Walt Disney Studios

XDC, the leading digital cinema service company in Europe, has signed
non-exclusive long-term agreements with  four (4) major  distributors
to deploy 8,000 upcoming  DCI-compliant digital cinema  installations
across Europe.

Cannes  Film  Festival  2008   -  Warner  Bros.  Entertainment   Inc.
("Warners"), Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount"),  Twentieth
Century Fox  Film Corporation  ("Fox") and  The Walt  Disney  Studios
("Disney") will support XDC, acting  as a Deploying Entity, in  order
to roll out and fund digital systems for theatrical presentations  in
several countries  in  Europe. Under  the  terms of  the  agreements,
Warners, Paramount,  Fox  and  Disney have  independently  agreed  to
supply European exhibitors with their  feature films in digital  form
for projection  on  the  digital  screens,  as  well  as  temporarily
contribute to  the financing  of XDC's  DCI-compliant digital  cinema
projection systems.

The agreements with  Universal Pictures  and Sony Pictures  are in  a
very advanced stage and are expected to close shortly.

Veronika  Kwan-Rubinek,  President,  International  Distribution  for
Warner Bros.  Pictures commented:  "Warner  Bros. has  established  a
strong working  relationship  with  XDC  over  the  last  few  years,
supplying more digital  releases in  Europe than  any other  studio.
This is  the first  digital cinema  deployment agreement  for  Warner
Bros. Pictures International,  and I'm  pleased to  be crossing  this
milestone with a company as experienced and committed as XDC."

Andrew Cripps, President for Paramount said: "Paramount is  delighted
to have  reached  this agreement  with  XDC to  deploy  DCI-compliant
digital projection systems across Europe. We look forward to  working
together to bring digital cinema  to exhibitors and consumers  alike,
which we believe will  help to expand and  improve the experience  of
going to the cinema."

Paul Hanneman and  Tomas Jegeus, Co-Presidents  of Twentieth  Century
Fox  International, jointly  commented:  "This  agreement  with   XDC
represents  another  significant  plan   to  finance  and  roll   out
DCI-compliant digital projection systems  across Europe. Fox  remains
committed to the transition  to a digital  cinema platform and  looks
forward to supplying its  movies to DCI-compliant digital  projection
systems installed by XDC.  We are delighted  to collaborate with  XDC
staff, which has  the experience  and technical  expertise to  manage
this process."

Anthony Marcoly,  President of  Sales  and Distribution  for  Disney,
stated,  "Digital  cinema  represents  the  absolute  best  and  most
enjoyable way to experience motion pictures, and we're excited to  be
working with XDC  as they expand  the number of  theaters capable  of
exhibiting   films   digitally.    XDC's   commitment   to    install
DCI-Compliant digital cinema systems throughout Europe is great  news
for moviegoers, and provides Disney and the other Studios the ability
to release films  in the  highest quality  digital format  possible.
These XDC D-Cinema installations are also 3D-ready, which means  more
great 3D  experiences for European moviegoers.   With our  latest  3D
animated feature, 'Bolt,' due to arrive at the end of this year,  and
more than  10  other  Disney  3D  titles  already  in  the  pipeline,
audiences are in for some amazing new entertainment in the very  near
future."

Serge Plasch,  Chief Executive  Officer for  XDC said:  "We are  very
happy to  announce these  milestone agreements  which offer  European
exhibitors a  viable  business  model to  convert  their  screens  to
digital cinema. The support of Warners, Paramount, Fox and Disney  is
a key factor  for XDC  and  will  allow us  to keep  our momentum  in
Europe, where XDC, along with over 120 staunch pioneer customers have
shown that commercial digital cinema works."

"Successes like this are the result of great team efforts. XDC thanks
and recognizes  its  team  members  for  their  unflagging  business,
technical and legal  support during the  negotiations. John  Birchell
Hughes, our Senior Vice President, has guided us on the exciting  and
challenging journey that produced these  four agreements. We are  now
working intensively on enhancing our  products and services in  order
to offer the  best solutions to  our first customers  who will  start
their deployment plans within the next 12 months," concluded  Bernard
Collard, Executive Vice President for XDC.

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