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Markham, ON. Canada - October 16, 2006

Audience™ 3.4 Now Released!

Capital Networks Limited, a leading provider of television broadcast and place-based media solutions, today announced the release of Audience™ version 3.4 Audience Version 3.4 provides significant advances in the platform - introducing both a new output mode (Audience.sign™) and support for a new broadcast quality graphic frame buffer (PCI card) from Matrox Video Products. Audience™ is ideally suited for diverse applications including Digital Signage, Hospitality, Education, Medical, Cable TV, PEG, LPTV, and Corporate.

Capital Networks' Audience™ is the complete professional visual communications platform for creation, scheduling and broadcast. As an end-to-end solution, Audience™ makes it easy to create and manage multi-zone video, graphics, and text presentations along with the integration of real-time data streams including news, weather, sports, financial, lottery and event information. The innovative nature of the Audience™ solution transforms screens, channels, websites or large-scale networks into dynamic displays that get noticed.

The new output mode, Audience.sign™ introduces a high performance VGA output for the Audience™ platform that delivers superior onscreen visuals. In either the one computer Audience™ software suite solution, or the Audience.playback™ networked configuration, Audience.sign™ provides a VGA output with 3D transitions on graphics, multiple smooth crawls and advanced scheduling features. In addition, all the enhanced performance features that were previously only supported in our broadcast video solutions are now available in any standard Windows supported VGA resolution.

The Matrox DSX LE is a single-card video/audio/graphics platform that exploits the Matrox "Power of X" architecture. Audience™ leverages the DSX LE 100 card to provide users SD SDI input/output, analog video input/output and Master/Genlockable video time base.

In addition to these two significant developments in the Audience platform the following are additional features that are supported in both Audience.sign™ and Matrox DSXLE 100 configured systems.

New features include:

• Multiple simultaneous MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video pages in multiple zones
• Simultaneous 3D transition effects in all zones
• Software MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 decoding
• Zero latency MPEG clip to clip playback
• Trim In / Trim Out for MPEG clips
• 2D and 3 D transitions between video pages, or video and graphics pages
• High resolution VGA output in true 4x3 or 16x9 native aspect ratios
• Layered zones and alpha blending between zones
• Alpha channel text and graphic overlay on video

No Charge Upgrade
For existing owners of Audience™, Capital Networks is offering a free software upgrade to Audience™. Please note that for existing NTSC/PAL users, the software will work with your existing Matrox CG2000/C/(N/P) video card, however, that video card will not support any of the new features identified above. For those features the power available in the new Matrox hardware (Matrox DSX LE 100) is required. Please consult your authorized reseller prior to hardware upgrades to ensure that your overall system resources are adequate for the new features.

Availability
Audience™ version 3.4 is available immediately, please contact your authorized Audience™ reseller today for your free upgrade.

For more information please contact Jim Vair, Vice President Business Development.
905 946-1122 ext 231.

About Capital Networks Limited
Capital Networks Limited is a privately held company based in Markham, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1991, Capital Networks is a respected marketing, integration and sales organization for all DiGiMATiON incorporated software products and a leader in the supply and support of advanced multimedia systems to communications companies engaged in cable television operation, broadcasting, direct-to-home and place-based media. Capital Networks has sold Audience ™ software through authorized re-sellers into 14 different market segments including Digital Signage, Cable TV, Education, Corporate and Medical applications across 6 continents. Current clients include: Alma Media - Helsinki, Air Canada Centre - Toronto, Bell Globe Media - Toronto, Cablevision - New York, Rogers Cable TV - Toronto, Outdoor Broadcast Network, Cox Communications, United States Marine Corps, Electronic Arts - Canada, Inc. and many others.

About DiGiMATiON incorporated
Founded in 1982, DiGiMATiON incorporated designs and develops leading-edge Broadcast Multimedia software systems. Staffed by a team of highly experienced programmers the firm has undertaken many high profile coding assignments for some of the best known communications companies in the world. The Audience™ suite reflects a remarkably flexible product line widely accepted by leaders in a wide range of industrial, educational, broadcast, cable, digital signage, hospitality, military and medical applications.

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