© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 1 Sharing Digital Content in the Home November 2003 Update Introducing the Digital Home Working Group

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 2 Digital Home Environment Consumer Desire Share music, pictures and video between PC, consumer electronics, and mobile devices Industry Opportunity Provide a compelling, user-friendly solution that fuels new businesses

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 3 Digital Home Faces Challenges Multiple-vendor home networks are difficult to set up and use Interoperability is limited, increasing consumer skepticism Proprietary systems don’t create category growth Industry standards alone don’t ensure interoperability

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 4 Seventeen industry-leading companies from the PC, digital consumer electronics and mobile device industries shared a common goal of establishing a platform of interoperability based on open industry standards... Solution  Industry Collaboration Digital Home Working Group To enable a transparent home network so consumers can easily create, consume, manage, and share digital content in new, compelling ways...and they came together to create the …or DHWG, on June 24, 2003

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 5 DHWG Membership Structure NEC Personal Products, Ltd. 17 Promoter Member Companies Board of Directors and over 50 new Contributor Members…

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 6 DHWG Membership Structure Over 50 Contributor Member Companies Apex Digital Appairent Tech Atheros Comm ATI Technologies Bell Canada BridgeCo Broadcom BT Canon Carry Computer Cisco-Linksys Creative Labs CyberTAN Technology DigiOn Digital5 D-Link Systems Dolby Laboratories ETRI Pinnacle Systems Pixelworks QualityLogic Sanyo Electric Seiko Epson SCM Microsystems Shuttle Sigma Designs SKY Perfect Comm. Solid Info Tech Tatung Texas Instruments Toshiba Ucentric Systems USI Mfg Services Zoran ZTE As of November 7, 2003 Freecom Technologies InFocus Intellon Inventec ITRI KETI LG Electronics Maxtor Mitsubishi Motive Communications Motorola National Semiconductor NEC Electronics America Newsoft Technology Olympus Opciel Technology Oregan Networks

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 7 DHWG Interest has No Boundaries Americas 53% Asia 31% EMEA 14% Support by Region Based on 150 membership applications, October 7, 2003 Support by Industry Product Components Semi conductor CE PC Mobile Network Others Service R&D

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 8 Consumers want their devices to work together and share content Consumers want their devices to work together and share content The DHWG Vision MEDIA Pre-Recorded Content Personal Media MOBILE MULTIMEDIA Entertainment, Personal Pictures and Video, Services BROADCAST Services, Entertainment BROADBAND Entertainment, E-Business, Services Consumers want their devices to work together and share content Consumers want their devices to work together and share content

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 9 The DHWG Approach Deliver design guidelines based on open standards Provide a common baseline of media formats Accelerate market acceptance through compliance and verification testing

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 10 IPv6 DRM / CP Interoperability Physical Network Network Protocol Device Discovery and Control Media Transports Media Formats Digital Rights Management Content Protection Candidates for DHWG Technologies Core DHWG Principles: Open, Fair, Interoperable Under Consideration in DHWG Framework Overview and Scope Required: PNG, JPEG, LPCM, MPEG2 Optional: GIF, TIFF, AAC, AC-3, ATRAC3plus, MP3, WMA9, MPEG1, MPEG4, WMV9 DRM / CP Technologies IPIPv4 UPnP, version 1 Ethernet UPnP DCP AVv1 HTTP Wired 802.3u Wireless a/b/g Future Potential Technologies JPEG2K, MPEG4 DHWG Media Formats Wireless e/i Disclaimer: Some of the formats/standards referenced above are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 11 VIDEO IMAGES Media Format Strategy Interoperability achieved by requiring specific formats –Open standards that are formally ratified by an internationally- recognized standards organization –IP must be licensed under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms Optional formats available to cover market needs –Source devices supporting an optional format must be able to convert that content into one of the required formats AUDIO MPEG2 LPCM (2 Channels) JPEG, PNG Required Format Set (must implement all) MPEG1, MPEG4, WMV9 AAC, AC-3, ATRAC3plus, MP3, WMA9 GIF, TIFF Optional Format Set (may implement one or more) Disclaimer: Some of the formats/standards referenced above are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 12 DHWG Organization Chair Scott Smyers, Sony Vice-Chair Heikki Heinaro, Nokia Secretary Evan Smouse, HP Treasurer Willem deZoete, Philips Technical Committee Glen Stone Sony Ecosystem Committee K.S. Lee Samsung Interoperability and Compliance Committee Keith Laepple Microsoft Marketing PR Committee Jim Reilly Matsushita Legal Committee C.K Ko Samsung Board of Directors Management Agency Committee chairs in gold.

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 13 DHWG Committees–Technical Home Network Version 1 Subcommittee Andy Crump Intel Technical Committee Glen Stone Sony Mobile & Handheld Subcommittee TBD Use Case Subcommittee (joint with Ecosystem) Prabir Mohanty Samsung Committee chairs in gold.

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 14 DHWG Organization–Ecosystem Industry Liaison Subcommittee Michael Stelts Thomson Ecosystem Committee K.S. Lee Samsung Use Case Subcommittee (joint with Technical) Prabir Mohanty Samsung Committee chairs in gold.

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 15 Q Q Q Q Q2–Q DHWG Deliverables Create Design Guidelines for interoperability Develop liaisons with other industry standards bodies Implement compliance testing and certification programs Generate marketing and logo programs Launch DHWG White Paper Promoter F2F Tech Requirements General F2F Draft Guidelines Retail Products Interop Testing Version 1 Guidelines Beta Prototypes Target for products using DHWG  2004

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 16 Summary PC, CE, and mobile convergence is here Consumers want to easily create, use, manage and share digital content in their home Industry leaders share a common goal and approach to enable the transparent home network Interoperability, open and fair standards are key The digital home environment will fuel new business opportunities for all of us

© 2003 Digital Home Working GroupPage 17 Thanks for your interest in Digital Home Working Group More information at Please join us!