1. European High Definition Television Roadmap 21 st January 2005 Date & Version

2. The Digital Interoperability Forum 18 members - ADB, BSkyB, Canal+, Flextech, Microsoft, Nagravision, NDS, ntl:, Numericable, Open TV, Pace, Premiere, Sky Italia, Telewest, TF1, TPS, ugc, Zetacast. –Represent each sector of the DTV delivery chain –hardware, software, middleware, platform operators, content providers Major investors and innovators in digital TV Committed to developing industry–led solutions to interoperability At the vanguard of HDTV in Europe –BSkyB, Premiere, TPS to launch in 2005/6.

3. European HDTV Roadmap – Resolution 200420052006 720p/501080i/251080p/501080p/25 ? Production only at first Production & Broadcast

4. European HDTV Roadmap – HD Compression 200420052006 MPEG-2 VC-1MPEG-4/H.264 First MPEG-4 Sample Chips First VC-1 Sample Chips

5. European HDTV Roadmap – Set-Top to TV Connector 200420052006 Component Video HDMI/HDCP DVI

6. European HDTV Roadmap – Native Flat Screen Display Resolutions 200420052006 1024*1280 1080*1920 Not HD HD 480*640 768*1024 576*720 PC Based display (V*H) TV Based display (V*H)

7. The BSkyB HD platform at launch will support: Transport Stream MPEG-2 ModulationDVB-S and DVB-S2 CODECSD - MPEG-2 HD –MPEG-2 and H.264 Resolution720p/50 and 1080i/25 1 AudioMPEG1 layer 2 or Dolby Digital or Dolby Digital Plus audio decoding (2 channel or 5.1 channel) CADVB common scrambling algorithm with NDS CA MiddlewareOpenTV Video OutputDigital - HD or SD via HDMI connector (with HDCP) Analogue will support SD only; via SCART and S-Video connectors 1 1080i/25 means 25 frames per second delivered by 50 interlaced fields per second