DivX and Grupo Televisa Announce Global Availability of Premium Content in DivX Format

Televisa will offer 12 full-length Spanish Language Telenovelas and TV shows bundled on DVDs along with DivX Certified devices

Mexico City, MEXICO & SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–August 09, 2006—Grupo Televisa and DivX, Inc., announced a partnership today to deliver premium DivX content to consumers.
The DivX format Telenovelas and TV shows will be bundled along with DivX Certified devices and available at retailers worldwide. Consumers that purchase select DivX Certified devices will receive up to 13 hours of DVD quality content on one DVD9 in the DivX format. DivX has licensed 12 titles from Televisa.

The 12 Spanish Language Telenovelas and TV shows are: “La Madrastra,” “Abrázame Muy Fuerte,” “Clase 406 Primera Temporada,” “El Manatial,” “Apuesta por Un Amor,” “Piel de Otoño,” “Niña Amada Mia,” “Lo mejor del Show de Polivoces Volumes 1 y 2,” “Ensalada de Locos,” “Tercer Milenio,” and “Bartolo.”

Content is encoded by DivX and protected by DivX digital rights management (DRM) technology. The bundle includes the DivX Converter for creation of DivX content on the PC. For more information on DivX Certification, visit www.divxnetworks.com/solutions/certification/index.php “Televisa is a household name in Latin America and we are proud to partner with such a high-quality, premium content provider,” said Aparna Vashisht-Rota, Business Development at DivX, Inc. “DivX technology enables an entire season of telenovelas and TV shows to fit on a single DVD, and by bundling premium content from Televisa with popular DivX Certified consumer electronics devices, we can work together to build a better media future globally.” Vashisht-Rota added.

About DivX, Inc.

DivX creates products and services designed to improve the experience of media. Our first product offering was a video compression-decompression software library, or codec, which has been actively sought out and downloaded over 180 million times in the last four years, including over 50 million times during the last twelve months. We have since built on the success of our codec with other consumer software, including the DivX Player application. We distribute this software from our website, DivX.com, which averaged over five million unique visitors per month during the first quarter of 2006. We also license our technologies to consumer hardware device manufacturers and certify their products to ensure the interoperable support of DivX-encoded content. Over 36 million DivX Certified hardware devices have been shipped worldwide, including approximately 9.8 million devices reported to us by our customers during the first quarter of 2006. In addition to technology licensing to consumer hardware device manufacturers, we currently generate revenue from software licensing, advertising and content distribution. For more information, visit www.divx.com.

About Televisa

Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and a major player in the international entertainment business. Televisa has interests in television production and broadcasting, programming for pay television, international distribution of television programming, direct-to-home satellite services, publishing and publishing distribution, cable television, radio production and broadcasting, professional sports and show business promotions, paging services, feature film production and distribution, dubbing, and the operation of a horizontal Internet portal. Televisa’s soap operas generally run only one season each and are broadcast internationally. www.televisa.com/