Remote Solution Selects Movea to Motion-Enable Korean Cable Operator New Remote Control

Movea's SmartMotion® Technology enables C&M Media to enhance Digital TV services. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) September 16, 2011 - Booth 3.A54 Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- Remote Solution of Korea announced today a strategic partnership with Movea to license the company's patented SmartMotion Technology and deploy components of the company's new MoveTV™ solution for Interactive TV. Remote Solution will showcase MoveTV solution capabilities in a remote control device undertaken for a leading Korean Cable Operator, C&M Media, at IBC in Stand # 3.A54.

As a global leader of remote control devices and headquartered in Kimchon, Korea, Remote Solution has been at the forefront of technology and driving innovative control devices for a new wave of Set-Top Boxes (STBs) and Digital TV services.

"At IBC 2011, Remote Solution will present the SmartMotion enabled remote control undertaken for C&M Media, the second largest Cable Operator in the Korean market," said S.K. Park, General Manager and Senior Vice President of Remote Solution. "The remote control and Movea's MoveTV solution offered us a turnkey solution to quickly deliver new motion-driven features and capabilities to market, saving us months of development time. We're now able to offer unique ways of interacting with content, drive adoption of new TV services, such as interactive games, and improve User Interface navigation to provide an enhanced entertainment experience that drives subscriber retention."

"We are pleased to partner with Remote Solution, a leading remote control manufacturer, to deliver MoveTV solutions that help deliver a complete motion-enabled entertainment experience for consumers," said Bryan Hoadley, Executive VP & GM of Movea Inc. "Through its adoption of MoveTV, Remote Solution and its customer C&M Media are demonstrating their commitment to deliver a better user experience and more end-user value to the Korean Cable Television market. We are excited to be working with these leaders in the PayTV market."

"We look forward to deploying this advanced SmartMotion remote control device, with the support of our partner Remote Solution. The device, and Movea's proven technology, will help us extend our reach with digital television subscribers," stated Mr. Jin Woong Ko, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Director of C&M Media.

Remote Solution will be exhibiting at RAI Convention Center during IBC on September 9th - 13th at Stand # 3.A54 and meeting with its European Service Providers customers and International business targets. Through these product demonstrations and discussions with Service Providers and STB suppliers, Remote Solution is reinforcing its commitment to integrate motion sensing with advanced pointing devices, using Movea's IP, and deliver on the promise of motion-driven UI's for navigating digital media services.

Movea's patented SmartMotion processing technologies, have been perfected and commercially proven over more than 20 years of development and ensure jitter-free, pixel accurate control with smooth and precise movement that is as simple and intuitive to use as "point and click".

MoveTV is a complete solution for the Interactive TV market, built on Movea's MotionIC™ platform, which includes SmartMotion enabled remote control reference designs, SmartMotion Server software for the Set-Top Box (STB), advanced gesture recognition, as well as Smartphone and Tablet apps for controlling the STB and Digital TV. MoveTV also includes GestureBuilder™, a gesture creation software, that comes with libraries of gestures that can further improve the User Experience over basic motion control. It allows simpler interactions with rich media content and applications, as well as enabling innovative features, such as air-signature user authentication, empowering service providers to offer personalized content recommendations, user preferences, targeted advertising and more.

Remote Solution:
Remote Solution was founded in 1994, and is headquartered in Kimchon, Korea, and operates four manufacturing sites in Kimchon Korea, Dong Guan and Nan Jing China, in addition to a new production site in Thailand. Its global customers include LG, Samsung, Daewoo, Hitachi, Tivo, Harmon, Control 4, Echostar, Comcast, Virgin, Ono, C&M Media, etc.

Remote Solution contact: Kenny Hong-Sales Manager / dkhong ( @ ) remotesolution dot co dot kr

C&M Media:
C&M Co., Ltd. Engages in the cable television business in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do region of South Korea. The company operates multiple systems that hold 16 cable television broadcasting stations. It offers digital broadcasting, such as HD personal video recorder, HD channels, VOD services, paid channels, and data broadcastings; high speed internet services, and internet telephone services to its customers. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

C&M Media contact: Jin Woong-Ko - Chief Technology Officer & Managing Director of Digital Division

Movea:
Movea is a leading provider of motion processing chips, software, firmware, and IP for the Consumer Electronics industry. Movea's unique motion processing capabilities enable customers and partners to quickly add motion intelligence to their products, meaning reduced risk, cost, and Time-to-Market for delivering compelling new motion-based features that create more end-user value. Movea has a global reach with headquarters in Grenoble, France, a U.S. subsidiary in Silicon Valley, California, as well as technology partners, manufacturing partners and distributors around the world. Further information about Movea can be found at http://www.movea.com.

Movea contact:
Europe: Nigel Robson, Vortex PR, Tel: +44 (0) 1481 233080, E-Mail: nigel ( @ ) vortexpr dot com
North America: Mark Karayan, Stearns and Johnson, Tel +1 415-397-7600, E-Mail: mkarayan ( @ ) stearnsjohnson dot com

MoveTV, SmartMotion and MotionIC are trademarks of Movea SA

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