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Grundig and YesVideo Partner

July 1st, 2006

Grundig and YesVideo today announced a strategic agreement to integrate YesVideo’s patented YesDVD features into Grundig’s line of DVD recorders, for easy one-button transfer of home movies to DVD.The proprietary YesDVD technology from YesVideo enables Grundig customers to easily turn their home movies into professionally-featured DVDs, complete with onscreen disc menus and intelligently selected chapters with picture thumbnails for easy navigation.

“With its global reach and consumer appeal, Grundig is an ideal partner to bring YesDVD to consumers in Europe,” said Greg Ayres, chief operating officer for YesVideo. “We’re pleased to partner with GRUNDIG to deliver Hollywood-featured DVD output capability to the GRUNDIG GDR 5550 HDD DVD recorder.”

“As part of our dedication to bringing value and simplicity to consumers, the addition of YesDVD to our GDR 5550 HDD model DVD recorder makes perfect sense and is in line with our Grundig philosophy ‘made for you,’ ” said Hubert Roth, CEO for Grundig. “YesVideo is known for its technology leadership in this arena, and they are a complementary partner for Grundig for our DVD recorder market.”

The YesDVD feature on the Grundig GDR 5550 HDD DVD recorder includes a smart onscreen menu which provides easy-to-understand prompts for creating a YesDVD, with the click of a button on the DVD recorder remote control. YesDVD software automatically creates up to 54 chapter scenes by detecting natural scene breaks in the video source, and also creates DVD chapter menus for easy searching and viewing. A customized case coversheet with thumbnail images representing the video content can be printed simply by inserting the finished YesDVD disc into a Windows-based PC’s DVD drive.

GRUNDIG GDR 5550 HDD DVD recorder with the YesDVD feature is now available through major retail outlets in Europe for RRP 449 EUR

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