On2 Technologies Announces TrueMotion(R) VP6-S(TM) and H.264 Upgrades Available for Flix(R) Engine

New release of On2's flagship product for video encoding supports latest

'Moviestar' updates to Adobe(R) Flash(R) Player 9.

    TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On2 Technologies,
 Inc., ( ONT), a leader in video compression solutions, announced today
 that upgrades to its Flix Engine line to support new formats added to Adobe
 Flash Player 9 through Adobe's 'Moviestar' update, are now shipping.
     The upgrade adds On2 TrueMotion VP6-S profile, a new low complexity
 profile of popular On2 VP6-E(TM) video compression supported in Flash
 Player since 2005. This new profile is designed for full screen, high
 resolution - including high definition (HD) - video for playback on mass
 market PCs with relatively low processing power. The upgrade also adds
 H.264, a leading industry standard format for video, to Flix Engine's
 supported encoding formats.
     "On2 is the first encoding vendor to support all the formats built into
 the Flash Player as a result of Adobe's recent updates," said Bill Joll,
 president and CEO of On2 Technologies. "While Adobe Flash Player now
 supports the needs of a wider audience which in itself is exciting, we are
 particularly excited about the wider applicability of the VP6 format,
 within which VP6-E profile continues to be the quality benchmark for web
 video, and now VP6-S profile will set the benchmark for streaming HD video
 on the web in high volume applications."
     In addition to VP6-E and S profiles, and H.264, the Flix Engine line
 supports transcoding to H.263 FLV format used in Adobe Flash Player, and
 H.263 3GPP format used in the mobile video industry.
     On2 will demonstrate the new upgrades and high definition video
 playback in Adobe Flash Player 9 using VP6-S at the upcoming Streaming
 Media West show at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, November 6-8,
 2007.
     About On2 Technologies, Inc. On2 Technologies ( ONT) ensures a
 compelling video experience for any video application anywhere. From low
 bit rate to high definition (HD), On2 provides optimized video compression
 technology enabling innovative solutions for application developers,
 content and service providers, chip vendors, device manufacturers, digital
 signage companies and beyond.
     Through continual innovation, On2 satisfies the toughest quality,
 bandwidth, and power requirements for video. The company's proprietary
 (TrueMotion(R) VP6(TM), VP7(TM)) and standards based (MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
 H.263, H.264, VC-1) codecs dominate the video market, with more than 1
 billion deployments on desktops worldwide and more than 200+ million in
 mobile; they are also proven in silicon with over 25 semiconductor
 manufacturers globally.
     Established in 1992 and headquartered in Tarrytown, New York, On2 has
 offices and partners in Finland, Germany, UK, Japan, China, Taiwan and
 Korea. Customers include Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Freescale, AMS, Atmel,
 Adobe/Macromedia, AOL, Sony, Skype, Facebook, VideoEgg, Brightcove, Move
 Networks and XM Satellite Radio. For more information please visit
 www.on2.com.
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