Bristol - July 17, 2007

Ocean Blue Software, the specialist digital TV software developer, is to release its advanced Freeview Plus PVR on Toshiba's Donau system-on-chip (SoC) processors. The announcement comes just a week after Ocean Blue clinched a deal to port its Surfsoft suite to the Toshiba platform, and will give developers an out-of-the-box platform to create advanced PVR products for the UK market.

"Ocean Blue is pleased to work with Toshiba and to provide our Surfsoft Freeview Plus PVR software for Toshiba's Donau hardware platform, this will result in a quality price/performance PVR solution for consumer electronic products." commented Ken Helps, Managing Director of Ocean Blue Software.

The UK Digital Terrestrial Group (DTG) produced the Freeview Plus PVR software standard, which is the  world's first PVR standard for hard disk based set top boxes. Ocean Blue is part of the DTG design group responsible for the development of the Freeview Plus specification.

Consumer electronics manufacturers are encouraged to adopt the DTG Freeview Plus software standard in order to comply with UK Digital TV standards and to gain product accreditation and the Freeview Plus logo, denoting to consumers an approved product and consumer confidence.

Ocean Blue says the market needs a single standard for PVRs. Freeview Plus has been a step in the right direction and will help consumers looking to replace their VCRs before the digital switch-off, says the company. The wider DVB industry should consider adopting the same standard across satellite and cable to simplify the market for consumers and to increase take-up of the new technology.

Toshiba's Donau platforms combine the company's media embedded processor (MeP) architecture with a 64-bit embedded RISC host processor to create multimedia SoCs with computer performances of up to 650MIPS (at 180MHz).

For more company information visit Toshiba's website at;

www.toshibacomponents.com