MGI & iCompression Debut Personal Video Recorder Prototype

TAIPEI, TAIWAN / SANTA CLARA, CA / TORONTO, ONT - June 5, 2000 - MGI
Software Corp. (TSE: MGI), a leader in digital video software, and
iCompression, Inc. a leader in MPEG-2 encoding technology, today will debut
a working prototype and reference design for a universal Windows PC -based
personal video recorder (PVR) solution. The companies will unveil the
solution to PC makers from around the world at COMPUTEX Taipei 2000, one of
the world’s largest computer trade shows, which is being held June 5-9 at
the Taipei World Trade Center.

The joint MGI/iCompression solution, which is available as an external box
that plugs into a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port or as a plug-in PCI card,
includes a TV tuner combined with iCompression’s market leading MPEG-2
single chip audio/video and system encoder. The hardware processes the
incoming TV signal, converts it to an MPEG-2 stream, which is then passed to
MGI’s personal TV software, Pure DIVA, for processing. The Pure DIVA
application enables users to pause live TV broadcasts (real-time
time-shifting) and digitally record shows, and is similar in functionality
to the consumer PVRs produced by companies like Sony (NYSE:SNE), Panasonic
(Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. NYSE:MC) and Philips under license
from TiVo (NASDQA:TIVO) and RePlay TV.