ANT Limited becomes software partner for Philips' Nexperia™ Home semiconductor system solutions

CES2004 show, Las Vegas, 8 January 2004

ANT Limited runs its PurePlay™ digital-media viewer on Philips' Nexperia Home semiconductor system solutions for TV and STB integration. Philips recently launched its Nexperia Home Partner Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISV) (Philips' press release) and selected ANT to be one of its first software partners. ANT Limited is the partner of choice to consumer electronics manufacturers, set-top-box providers and silicon designers worldwide for TV-interface software, content rendering solutions, and embedded browser technologies.

ANT PurePlay, a software application for consumer electronics devices, enables consumers to view their digital media, including digital photos, MP3 audio and MPEG movies, on TVs and handheld devices. PurePlay has been designed to be extremely clean, uncluttered and user-friendly and its look-and-feel can be easily modified to Philips' customers' requirements. PurePlay has been optimized to exploit the capabilities of the Nexperia Home.

The explosion of digital content being created and owned by consumers has, until now, been poorly served by TV-based devices — ANT PurePlay on Philips' Nexperia Home changes that. With PurePlay pre-integrated onto Nexperia Home, all consumer electronics manufacturers who select Nexperia Home can take advantage of the opportunity for product enhancement and differentiation that ANT PurePlay provides.

"ANT PurePlay breaks the dominance of the PC for viewing digital media in the home," said Stephen Reeder, Executive Director Sales and Marketing, ANT Limited. "PurePlay lets manufacturers and consumers exploit the TV's potential as the focus for family viewing of digital content, be it digital photos, downloaded MP3s, or MPEG movies."

ANT will be demonstrating ANT PurePlay running on various Philips Nexperia products on the Philips Semiconductors booth (LVCC Meeting Rooms N221/222) at CES2004 in Las Vegas.

About ANT Software Limited

ANT plc (www.antplc.com) is a leading provider of digital TV client and consumer electronic software solutions. ANT's unique client solutions allow robust and consistent delivery of digital-media, user interfaces, interactive services and applications to the TV and portable media devices. ANT enables service providers to efficiently create and deploy successful solutions to the market that deliver high value and clear differentiation.

ANT's products are pre-integrated with many industry-leading solutions and are based upon open standards, enabling low-risk, cost-effective roll-out of services, while ensuring flexible client hardware choice with efficient bill of materials. ANT software has been extensively deployed by customers throughout the world including Chunghwa Telecom, Foxconn, France Telecom, Humax, LG/Nortel, Philips, Sagem, Samsung, SaskTel, Telecom Italia and Thomson.

ANT plc's shares are listed on AIM, a London Stock Exchange regulated market, under the ticker ANTP (Reuters: ANTP.L, Bloomberg: ANTP.LN).

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