Via Licensing Announces Patent Licensing Terms for Worldwide Interactive Television Standards DVB-MHP and OCAP; Joint Patent Licenses Expected to Be Available by Q4 of 2005.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Via Licensing Corporation is pleased to announce the availability of financial license terms for patents essential for implementations of the Digital Video Broadcasting Multimedia Home Platform 1.0 (MHP 1.0), and CableLabs(R) OpenCable(TM) Applications Platform (OCAP(TM) 1.0) standards. Companies participating in meetings with Via Licensing regarding each technology standard licensing program have each had patents independently determined to be essential to the implementation of that standard.

The patent licenses for MHP 1.0 and OCAP 1.0 will be offered separately and will better enable and encourage adoption of the standards by streamlining the process and reducing the overall cost of obtaining the necessary licenses for both device manufacturers and service providers. Patent holders including Comcast, OpenTV, Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.), Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Thomson, and Time Warner Cable are currently discussing the final license documents.

The financial terms are available at www.vialicensing.com under the Licensing Programs menu. The goal of the participating companies is to have a patent license agreement available to interested device manufacturers and service providers by the end of the fourth quarter of 2005. Device manufacturers and service providers are each required to obtain separate patent licenses from the pool, with manufacturers making payments based on the number of devices manufactured and service providers making payments based on the number of subscribers that their service reaches.

The marketplace benefits from the participation of as many patent owners as possible, through the inclusion of more intellectual property in the license and by the participation of more parties in development of the terms of the licensing program. Via Licensing continues to welcome the participation of additional parties that hold patents essential to the practice of the MHP 1.0 (ETSI TS101812) or OCAP 1.0 (SCTE OC-SP-OCAP1.0) standards. Parties holding patents they believe are necessarily infringed by the practice of these standards, and who are interested in participating in the development of the licensing program, should immediately request information by sending an email to [e-mail].

The license fees collected from the MHP and OCAP licensing programs will be allocated among the pool members based upon a predetermined formula approved by all pool members.

About Via Licensing Corporation

Via Licensing Corporation develops and administers patent licensing programs or patent pools on behalf of innovative technology companies and for the convenience of licensees. Via Licensing Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB), and benefits from the expertise, infrastructure, and strategic business relationships that Dolby has developed in more than 35 years of licensing into the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Via Licensing is involved in the development and operation of licensing programs for both mandated and de facto or emerging standards. For more information about Via Licensing Corporation, please visit www.vialicensing.com.

Certain statements in this press release, including statements regarding the benefits of joint licensing programs for both licensors and licensees, the potential for greater adoption of standards through joint licensing programs, the potential for joint licensing programs to reduce the overall cost of obtaining licenses; and the benefits of DVB-MHP or OCAP capable products, are "forward-looking statements" that are subject to risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties, which could cause the forward-looking statements to differ materially from anticipated results, include, without limitation, risks associated with licensing technologies through patent pools; risks associated with licensing industry standards technologies; risks associated with developing proprietary technology in markets in which "open standards" are adopted; market acceptance of DVB-MHP or OCAP capable devices; rapid changes in the delivery of digital television and data services and technologies; risks associated with the development of markets for digital programming; and other risks detailed in Dolby's Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including its quarterly report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC for the quarter ended April 1, 2005. Dolby disclaims any obligation to update information contained in these forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

DVB and MHP are registered trademarks of the DVB Project. CableLabs, OpenCable, and OCAP are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

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