Digital Vision Digital Vision appoints post industry veteran Dan Germain as Senior Product Manager

Stockholm, Sweden – 8 May, 2008 – Digital Vision, the premier provider of picture enhancement systems for film and television post-production, today announced the appointment of post industry veteran, Dan Germain to the position of Senior Product Manager. Germain who joined Digital Vision in 2006 has been promoted from his position as Corporate Evangelist within the company. He will be based at Digital Vision’s headquarters in Stockholm and will represent the company’s entire software based product portfolios worldwide.

Before joining Digital Vision, Germain spent a number of years working in the high-end post production environment both in the UK, the USA and Australia in prominent roles with companies including Avid, Quantel, Eyeon and ROOT6. Germain will report to Digital Vision’s CTO Patrik Alm.

As part of the reorganization Chris Steel will now focus on the Licensing and OEM business which was launched in 2007 by Steele and has grown to a level where it needs dedicated management. For the baseband processing products such as DVNR and Cifer, Torbjörn Dyrvold will assume all product management responsibilities.

Simon Cuff, Digital Vision President and COO, said, “We have seen a great growth in all three areas of our business and it was time to devote additional resources to focus on each one. With Dan joining the Product Management team on a senior level we are demonstrating our commitment to further enhance our existing mastering and grading products and bring further offerings to the market in the near future. We already have one of the most exciting roadmaps in our market and we plan to unveil additional capability throughout 2008 into 2009.”

About Digital Vision
Digital Vision provides innovative image restoration, enhancement, colour correction and data conforming systems that major movie studios, television networks and post-production facilities use to produce and enhance feature films, TV programs and commercials.  The company’s Nucoda product line provides a strong suite of products for tapeless and non linear grading of HD broadcast and 2K/4K digital intermediate productions. The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media & entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities and broadcasters around the world.

Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with three wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision US in Los Angeles, California, Digital Vision UK in London, England, and Digital Vision in Hong Kong, China.  The company maintains its global presence through a network of qualified distributors.  Digital Vision is listed on the Stockholm stock exchange.  For further information, go to www.digitalvision.se.

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Media contacts: Digital Vision
US - Chris Purse, Bubble & Squeak, e: chris@ignite.bz , t: +1 818 508-0450, m: +1 818 487-2506
Europe & APAC - Sadie Paris, Bubble & Squeak, e: sadie@bubblesqueak.co.uk, t: +44 (0)20 7287 4262, m: 44 (0)771 542 2414

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