TAIPEI, Taiwan – January. 13, 2008 – Items Technologies Inc., a pioneer in developing industry-first video multimedia
　　solutions sold under the Items brand, has been granted software and hardware patents for their Multiple Streaming
　　Technology by the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office. The hardware patent covers the use of a multiple TV signal
　　processor to simultaneously receive analog TV/video signals and/or digital TV signals and then transmitting the decoded
　　signal through a PC interface for playback. This way analog and digital TV programs may be played simultaneously.
　　The software patent then covers the use of multiple interfaces to separately receive digital and analog television signals
　　and the sending of these signals to a tuner, allowing for simultaneous reception of these signals for saving or for playback.

　　Digital TV: The future of multimedia broadcasts
　　Television with DVD quality video, rich stereo sound, and static free reception all available for free through the
　　airwaves – sounds impossible, right? Digital TV offers all of these advantages over analog TV as well as EPG schedule
　　information, multiple audio streams and closed captioning/subtitles, and with the recent push for digital TV, more and more
　　channels are appearing in cities across the nation. But in order to access this free content, one must either purchase a digital
　　TV or a set top box, both of which can cost hundreds to thousands of dollars.

　　Items provides another way: USB 2.0 digital TV tuners for your desktop or laptop PC. Besides offering a much more economical
　　route, these TV tuners leverage the power of the PC, giving customers extra functionality such as PVR time-shifting and
　　scheduled recording of shows to the hard drive.
　　By using the USB 2.0 interface, users can easily install the TV tuner by simply connecting it to an available port. The units are
　　also extremely compact, making it ideal for laptop users. Items USB 2.0 digital TV tuners are available for ATSC and DVB-T
　　standards, and come in a variety of models, including hybrid models that also provide analog TV reception.

　　ExpressCard: The next-generation laptop interface
　　The recently introduced ExpressCard format is a next generation interface for laptop PCs, designed to replace the existing
　　PCMCIA and CardBus standards. It offers hosts a compact form factor, hot-swappability, and both USB 2.0 and PCI Express
　　interfaces. This PCI Express interface is its major advantage - it offers more than 5 times the bandwidth of the PCI or CardBus
　　interface.
　　True to form, Items has developed TV cards that utilize all the benefits of the ExpressCard format. Unlike competitors that have
　　raced to be the first on the market by using the ExpressCard’s USB interface, Items’s solutions use the massive bandwidth of
　　the PCI Express interface to provide multi-stream TV solutions that are currently unmatched.