XDC, the number one digital cinema service company in Europe and Digital Content Portal Germany, IT service provider for digital cinema data logistics and automation, have agreed on cooperation. XDC and DCP-Germany agreed, that the prospects of cooperation promise added value to both of them as well as being beneficial to the industry. As a first step the development teams will provide basic compatibility of their systems in time when the DCPG data centre goes on line in July 2010. A roadmap is being developed for further integration of XDC's screen and theatre management systems and DCPG's comprehensive automation of distribution, verification, allocation and tracking of digital content.

“We will actively support DCP-Germany's initiative on the market and make sure that our customers can use the features provided by DCP-Germany's system with their XDC Solo SMS or XDC Plaza TMS”, says Jérôme DELVAUX, Vice President Technology at XDC. “Our solutions complement one another and will make digital cinema even easier to adopt and to operate.”

DCP-Germany, among whose shareholder are a daughter of the Association of German Movie Theaters (HDF Kino e.V.) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, is a neutral service provider. The company helps distributors, post production and advertisers to distribute digital content and receive feedback on screening through elaborate logging functions. Automation helps exhibitors to plan their shows including all kinds of pre-show content. DCPG manages and validates all digital content, KDMs (key delivery messages) and screen certificates that pass her data centre.

“In order to make our content portal available for XDC systems we’ve developed together a connector and we are now up-to-speed to fully integrate the solutions”, says Richard Kummeth, Managing Director of DCP-Germany. “It is our mission to make digital cinema more reliable and easier to manage and control. The service is available for all providers of digital content and continuous development efforts make sure we have interfaces to all cinema systems. We are happy, that with XDC one of most important promoters of digital cinema supports us. I'm positive that out development teams will expeditiously implement such features as automatic play-list creation, KDM-management and logging for theatres that use XDC-systems.”

About XDC

XDC is the number one digital cinema company in Europe with more than 1,500 committed digital screens out of which 50% have already been deployed. XDC HQ is based in Liege (Belgium) and provides end-to-end digital cinema solutions including equipment supply, financing (VPF, leasing, …), training, installation and 24/7 maintenance, as well as content processing and delivery. The company is the first entity to have VPF digital cinema deployment agreements with all 6 major US studios Warner, Fox, Universal, Paramount, Sony and Disney for a total of 8,000 digital screens in 22 European countries. Besides its financing program with ING Lease, XDC has set up a global financing of 100 millions Euros with a bank consortium led by BNP Paribas Fortis to allow the VPF roll out of 2,000 digital screens for its European deployment program. XDC Digital Content Lab has been processing hundreds of different titles, and offers a full service including mastering, duplication, key management, 24/7 helpdesk, extranet tracking, physical/virtual delivery. Last but not least, XDC is also very active in Alternative Content by offering a full service from booking and promotion up to delivery, reporting and box office collection.

The main shareholders are EVS Broadcast Equipment (Euronext Brussels: EVS, Bloomberg: EVS BB, Reuters: EVSB.BR) (www.evs-global.com), GIMV (Euronext Brussels: GIMB, Bloomberg: GIMB BB, Reuters: GIMV.BR) (www.gimv.com) and SRIW (www.sriw.be).

More info available at www.xdcinema.com.

XDC Marketing & Communication Department

Phone: +32 (0) 4 - 3 64 12 00

E-mail: marcom@xdcinema.com

About DCP Germany:

Digital Content Portal Germany GmbH is an IT service provider for the movie industry. DCP Germany offers distribution, validation, assignment and analysis of digital film content as well as the collection, validation and distribution of digital keys for distributors, post production firms and advertisers. The validation of data and certificates takes place in collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS. DCP-Germany was established in September 2009 in Munich, the data center is located in Nuremberg. Presently Shareholders are: FORUM FILM Mediengesellschaft mbH - a 100% daughter of the HDF Kino e. V. - with a share of 60% and Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Richard Kummeth with 20% each. Further participations are in preparation.

Press Contacts:

XDC: Serge Plasch

Tel:+32 4 364 12 03; Email: spl@xdcinema.com

DCP-Germany: Richard Kummeth

Tel:+49 89-2729 36 0; Email: kummeth@dcp-germany.de