ANT Galio Delivers Enhanced Functionality for Six Leading IPTV Set-Top Box Developers

ANT's most advanced IPTV Client Software Platform now available from Pace Micro Technology, Amino Communication, Homecast, Humax, InfoEQ and Kaon Media

Cambridge, England, 17 August 2005

ANT plc (AIM: ANTP), a leading provider of embedded browser, content control and user interface software for IPTV and consumer electronics markets, today announced the availability of its next generation browser-based user interface software, ANT Galio™, on IPTV set-top boxes from six leading developers — Pace Micro Technology, Amino Communications, Homecast, Humax, InfoEQ and Kaon Media.

Building on ANT's knowledge and expertise within the IPTV market, ANT Galio provides an advanced IPTV Client Software Platform capable of delivering a new level of highly dynamic user experiences. Galio's complete user interface enables small, fast and easy to build, mixed-media IPTV applications, covering local device set-up menus and controls through high performance local implementations of complex remote services such as Electronic Programming Guides (EPGs), Video on Demand (VoD) interfaces, interactive advertising and dynamic news, information and communication applications.

An ANT Galio advanced browser-based user interface solution complements the cutting edge capabilities of current and future IPTV set-top boxes. Featuring the latest television and W3C standards, Galio combines Cascading Style Sheet standards (CSS 2.1, CSS TV and aspects of CSS 3), with a highly dynamic, JavaScript-driven Document Object Model (DOM2) to provide advanced capabilities and high performance within a small memory footprint. The use of W3C standards enables operators to rapidly repurpose existing Web content and develop new groundbreaking interactive content and complex TV-based applications quickly and easily using existing knowledge and off-the-shelf tools. A Galio-enabled set-top box gives operators access to a highly competitive, cost-effective solution, delivering greater flexibility and significantly raising the quality of the user experience and the range of enhanced interactive services possible.

"We are pleased to have such a powerful group of set-top developers ready to ship Galio in their set-top boxes," said Stephen Reeder, executive director, sales and marketing, ANT plc. "ANT software provides the fundamental point of interaction between the consumer and an IPTV service. This is the crucial area for customer satisfaction which ultimately drives the success and profitability for these developers and their operator customers."

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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