PacketVideo Joins Three Industry Consortiums to Advance Mobile TV Services Worldwide; Company Unites With Industry Leaders to Develop Standards and Drive the Proliferation of Mobile Television.

LAS VEGAS -- PacketVideo, the leading innovator of multimedia software for the mobile industry, announces its membership in three key mobile broadcast TV consortiums, joining other industry leaders such as Verizon, Vodafone, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, Nokia and Qualcomm. Through its participation in the Digital Video Broadcasting Project, FLO(TM) Forum, and the Mobile Digital TV Alliance, PacketVideo will help shape mobile TV standards and technology and drive the proliferation of new services worldwide.

"We are still in the early days of mobile TV, and it's important for PacketVideo to support important organizations that will assist in the creation of this market," said Dann Wilkens, vice president of marketing at PacketVideo. "As the pioneers of mobile video, we have invested years in the development of advanced technology that brings TV and video to millions of mobile users around the world. We are actively developing software and hardware solutions that will power new generations of exciting mobile TV service and devices. We look forward to working with DVB, FLO Forum and the MDTVA to jumpstart this new media industry."

Digital Video Broadcasting Project

The Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Project is an industry-led consortium of more than 270 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others from more than 35 countries. These companies are committed to designing global standards for the delivery of digital television and data services. Services using DVB standards are currently available on every continent with more than 110 million DVB receivers deployed.

Since its conception in 1993, the DVB Project has proven the value and viability of pre-competitive cooperation in the development of open digital television standards. DVB's open standards guarantee fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions with regard to Intellectual Property Rights, allowing them to be freely adopted and utilized worldwide.

For more information, visit www.dvb.org.

FLO Forum

The FLO Forum is a multi-company initiative committed to advancing the global standardization of FLO technology. Established in June 2005 and composed of industry-leading organizations, the FLO Forum works to develop products and services, based on FLO technology, to enable the delivery of advanced multimedia services to wireless consumers. The FLO Forum is organized to promote the global standardization of FLO technology, including compliance and certification benchmarks for the technology.

FLO technology is a new air interface with multicasting capabilities designed to increase capacity and reduce content delivery costs to mobile handsets. FLO technology enables mobile users to see and hear a variety of relevant content for the mobile consumer. Designed from the ground up specifically to multicast significant volumes of rich multimedia content, FLO enables wireless operators to cost-effectively deliver clips and streaming video to millions of mobile users at once. FLO provides the technology for distributing multimedia content efficiently and economically without impacting current networks.

For more information, visit www.floforum.org.

Mobile Digital TV Alliance

The Mobile Digital TV (DTV) Alliance is an open industry consortium that was formed to promote the best practices and open standards that deliver premium-quality digital broadcast television to mobile devices and to accelerate DVB-H development and deployment in North America. The alliance is comprised of leading companies from across the mobile business system and entertainment value chain. The founding sponsor members include Intel, Microsoft, Modeo, Motorola, Nokia and Texas Instruments.

DVB-H is an open standard developed by the DVB Project and enjoys broad industry support with more than 100 companies working on DVB-H components, devices and services today. Through this large ecosystem, DVB-H has a competitive environment that fosters lower costs and spurs innovation.

There are approximately 20 DVB-H network trials that have either concluded or are currently underway around the globe, including Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Taiwan, and other countries. It is expected that DVB-H commercial services will be deployed in Europe by the end of 2006, and by the end of 2007 the DVB-H infrastructure in Europe, the United States and Asia will be built out and ready for wide-spread deployments.

For additional information on the Mobile DTV Alliance, visit www.mdtvalliance.org.

About PacketVideo

PacketVideo is the number one supplier of embedded multimedia communications software for mobile phones with more than 120 design wins for PV-powered handsets. The company's software enables mobile phones to watch breaking news, take digital pictures, record home movies, play back digital music and videos, and make two-way videophone calls. PacketVideo's global leadership is proven by strong relationships with mobile operators, dominance in design wins, and the millions of PacketVideo-powered multimedia phones shipped in markets around the world. PacketVideo was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information, visit www.pv.com.