Chris Steele joins Digital Vision as Director of Product Management

Stockholm, Sweden – 8 February 2006 – Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video solutions, today announced that Chris Steele will join the company as Director of  Product Management. Steele will be based in Digital Vision’s UK office in Soho, London.

Educated at The Royal College of Art in London, Steele commenced his career at Independent Television News (ITN), London 20 years ago - producing animated graphics for live play-out into the news bulletins.  Over the years, he has worked for companies including Parallax Software, Avid Technology and Eastman Kodak, and most recently was Director of UK Operations for OMG plc. Steele has been pivotal in bringing many new products to market including the Matador paint and animation system from Avid and the Emmy award winning boujou camera tracking software from OMG.

“I’m proud to be joining Digital Vision at such an exciting time” explained Steele.  He continued, “With great technology and products for both the post-production and broadcast industries, I’m looking forward to further increasing Digital Vision’s already considerable success into these rapidly changing markets.”  

Robert Ekström, President of Digital Vision, said,”We are delighted to have someone of Chris Steele’s calibre join Digital Vision as part of the team. Our development pipeline is very full right now and we are moving quickly to introduce several key new products in 2006 and 2007. Chris’s technical expertise and management skills will be a major asset for us going forward.”

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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 the burgeoning digital intermediate 2K/4K market.  The company’s award-winning products are a standard of the media & entertainment industry and are deployed at top facilities around the world.

Digital Vision AB was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, with two wholly owned subsidiaries, Digital Vision (US) in Los Angeles, California, and Nucoda Ltd in London, England.  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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For more information, please contact:

Robert Ekström, E-mail: robert.ekstrom@digitalvision.se, Phone: +46-733 55 26 02
Digital Vision AB (publ), Solna Strandväg 98, SE-171 54  Solna, Sweden
Web site: www.digitalvision.se

Media contact: Jennie Evans, +44 (0)1635 44991, jennie@manormarketing.tv

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