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New Service Will Showcase Pay Per View’s Most Popular Live Events in High Definition

Los Angeles, California, December 4, 2008 - TVN Entertainment Corp., the world’s largest television on demand company, today announced the launch of Event TV HD. The new service will showcase Pay Per View’s most popular live events in high definition including boxing, mixed martial arts, and wrestling from top providers like HBO, Showtime, UFC, and WWE. Event TV HD is expected to offer 3-4 live events monthly, plus event replays and will broadcast in 1080i, 1920x1080 resolution as well as Dolby digital stereo or 5.1 audio.

Event TV HD debuts this Saturday with the live broadcast of HBO’s Oscar de la Hoya - Manny Pacquiao fight. The preshow will begin at 8:30pm (ET) / 5:30pm (PT) and the fight is scheduled to start at 9:00pm (ET) / 6:00pm (PT).

“TVN remains the leader in file-based content distribution and on-demand solutions. But nothing can beat the thrill of seeing the action of live event programming, especially in the sharp clarity of high definition,” said Doug Sylvester TVN Entertainment president and COO. “Event TV HD is another example of how we continue to meet the needs of our distribution partners, regardless of platform.”

In addition to providing comprehensive VOD services to cable, telecommunications, and DBS providers, TVN packages, distributes and manages over 8300 hours of programming from nearly 200 content providers including every major movie studio. TVN also maintains an exclusive roster of eight unique VOD networks. Beyond content distribution, TVN also supplies comprehensive marketing support and asset management services via their Emmy-nominated system ADONISS.

TVN Entertainment Corporation, the leading television on-demand company, works with every major studio, network, and telecommunications video provider in North America. TVN is the preferred provider of original on-demand programs and networks. TVN supports an open, advanced technology platform, and offers the most comprehensive, end-to-end solution for licensing, managing, distributing and marketing on-demand content to virtually any platform.