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Los Angeles, CA., May 30, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SDI Media recently opened its expanded state of the art facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This announcement is the second of a number of facility builds and expansions that SDI has planned for 2012, including Manila, Philippines and Munich, Germany later this year, as well as the recently announced new studios in Milan, Italy.

As the first global localization provider to enter Malaysia in 2008, SDI established a strong presence in the region. After 4 years, SDI had outgrown its previous location and has relocated to custom-built studios occupying 3100sq ft (300sqm) in the PJ Trade Centre building in Damansara Perdana. The new facility includes 4 newly built studios with individual control rooms as well as a fully enabled subtitling operation (including client support, translation, and QC). SDI Malaysia offers new services and added support for SDI clients, including: recording; editing, and project management services for dubbing - enabling SDI to offer complete dubbing and subtitling solutions entirely in-house. This facility also offers SDI's full suite of dubbing and subtitling software and systems, allowing it to be the one stop solution for end-to-end localization services in Malaysia.

As the world's leading provider of localization services with owned-and-operated facilities in 33 countries globally, SDI continues providing clients ever-greater access to their integrated and standardized dubbing and subtitling services. The Malaysia expansion increases SDI's service offerings to Malaysia's growing localization industry as well as providing additional support to clients in the surrounding regions.

"SDI has had great success in Malaysia by focusing on our customers and the quality of our offerings. We recognized the need to provide additional resources for our clients in this market, and in Asia. We believe that our expanded offerings in this new facility is one step in us meeting this goal," said Walter Schonfeld CEO and President of SDI. "As we continue evaluating the scope of our global footprint it is important that we not only enter new territories, but also broaden our offerings in existing markets. Our Malaysia expansion demonstrates SDI's ability and commitment to recognize our Client's needs and to provide the highest quality solution for all their localization requirements.

SDI Malaysia is one of 5 current SDI facilities to service Asia, including additional offices in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, with The Philippines office due to open in the third quarter of 2012.

For further information about this new facility, please contact Suzanna Borhan at +60377241888.

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About SDI Media Group:

Headquartered in Los Angeles, SDI Media is the world's leading provider of dubbing, subtitling, and other media localization services. It has operations in 33 countries spanning Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Worldwide, SDI provides localization services in over 60 languages and dialects, and owns and operates 100 recording rooms and 50 mixing rooms. SDI provides language dubbing and subtitling services for feature films, live action, animated television series, interactive games, new media and corporate needs. SDI's strength is in its ability to offer end-to-end service offerings to its clients, including scripting, casting, directing, recording/mixing, and other post production services.

For additional information please visit http://www.sdimedia.com/ or contact Aviv Gattenuo at +1.310.388.8942.

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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

TLV Media, leading display optimization platform, today announced the release of a comprehensive, stand-alone Publisher Platform. The advanced platform offers publishers revenue maximizing tools, inventory management insights and enhanced support, all within an intuitive interface for managing advertising revenues.

With the launch of the new platform, all publishers can now register to benefit from TLV Media's exclusive optimization technology which combines multiple optimization methodologies to yield the highest possible ROI for advertisers and maximize publishers' revenues.TLV Media's unique technology automates the optimization of display campaigns, yielding an average of 83% more conversions over the same campaign compared to other networks.

Offering RTB, creative quality control and rapid ad serving, the new publisher platform includes a dashboard for managing revenue information, campaign data reliability check-up, streamlined billing and payment processes and the ability to create detailed performance reports. As part of the revenue maximizing tools, TLV Media today also releases premium ad units designed to increase ad revenues for publishers who want to monetize untapped properties on their site. On top of IAB standard banner sizes, the premium ad units include On-video, On-game, In-image and Slider ads.

"The new platform is part of our ongoing focus on helping publishers better monetize their online properties," says Ohad Gliksman, TLV Media CEO. "We continue to offer publishers more than just competitive CPMs and unmatched optimization, with a new robust ad revenue monitoring and reporting platform, giving publishers the benefits of our optimization technology, RTB, data mining and statistical analysis capabilities."

TLV Media's new publisher platform is available for registered publishers with TLV Media.The company plans to release additional features to the system, including alerts, insight sharing tools and additional monetization and control tools.

About TLV Media

TLV Media is the market leader in running and optimizing performance based campaigns over display media. Founded in 2008 by a team of entrepreneurs experienced in internet marketing, technology and business development, TLV Media's vision is to improve performance based advertising over the internet using state of the art technologies which automate the advertising process. Throughout the entire lifecycle of advertising campaigns, TLV Media's technology monitors, analyzes and improves results. Optimizing over 15 billion impressions monthly worldwide, TLV Media helps its customers generate positive ROI online. Visit: http://www.tlvmedia.com

Contact: TLV Media Merav Chen, VP Marketing merav@tlvmedia.com +972-3-5377787 http://www.tlvmedia.com https://twitter.com/#!/TLV_Media

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Deadline : Monday July 02 2012 Theme : Control

Prize : AUS $5000

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The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

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2012 Award Theme

The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the society of control. The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were. The browser, the mobile camera/screen are new enabling simulations the user canexploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange.

This is reflected online and on the street. In our political discourse and our social interactions. And it is most visible when repatriated via the mainstream media and traditional news editorials coupled with wild proclamations of new freedoms accompanied by real change.

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Malaysian government plans for a media council to enforce by law journalists compliance with a code of ethics have moved ahead with a second round of discussions yesterday between editors and journalists and the attorney-general (AG) and his team.

The governments moves are described as part of reforms in the name of press freedom, following on from the prime ministers announcement in September to end annual newspaper licences.

In April, amendments to the Printing Press and Publications Act (PPPA) replaced annual licences with a one-off licence good until cancelled, and slightly curbed the home ministers powers over the press, opening his decisions to challenge in court.

However, these reforms do not move Malaysia forward towards greater press freedom but merely return to the regime of control that had existed before 1988, and before Operasi Lalang.

(That was when the Mahathir government, locked in a vicious internal power struggle over the proceeds of privatisation, locked up dissidents and critics and closedThe Star, WatanandSin Chew Jit Poh. They were allowed to re-open six months later, under stringent conditions.)

The April amendments to the PPPA merely restored thestatus quo ante. The difference is that press editors agreed to submit to self-regulation in return for withdrawal of annual publishing licences and the government has expanded the scope of self-regulation to include broadcasters and online media.

A new regime of media control is thus taking shape, and journalists are being co-opted into this process by being part of the governments consultations. These discussions are expected to include the mechanisms of the new regime: how to control, who to control, and how to punish.

Although the government views this favourably as self-regulation, control of the media lies at the heart of the governments as yet unseen proposals, and editors and journalists have become part of the process.

It is common knowledge that:

Public backlash anticipated

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BEIJING, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- UTStarcom Holdings Corp. ("UTStarcom" or the "Company") (UTSI), a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators, announced today that it has won an expansion tender from Beijing Television ("BTV") to enhance the capabilities of BTV's existing IPTV broadcasting control platform ("IBCP"). The expanded platform will feature a new IP-based safe distribution system that will improve BTV's IPTV content-management and distribution capabilities. UTStarcom built BTV's existing IBCP in 2010 and this contract represents the first IBCP expansion project awarded to the Company.

"Our expansion project with BTV further solidifies our leading position in China's IPTV market," said UTStarcom's President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Jack Lu. "Over the past year, we have worked together with BTV to examine its service experience in order to design an enhanced service platform that better suits the needs of the operator. As a result, the expanded platform will feature a new IP-based safe distribution system that can monitor content distribution issues in real time, as well as automatically replace weak signals whenever a problem is identified. Expansion contracts similar to this one with BTV are typically larger in scale than the initial IBCP contracts we have signed. Not only will we continue to capitalize on opportunities to build additional IBCPs, but we also anticipate similar IBCP expansion contracts in the near future."

Since 2010, UTStarcom has built ten IBCPs across China, specifically in Beijing, Chongqing, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Shandong, Shenzhen, Sichuan, Tianjin, and Zhejiang.

About UTStarcom Holdings Corp.

UTStarcom is a leading provider of interactive, IP-based network solutions in iDTV, IPTV, Internet TV and broadband for cable and telecom operators. The Company sells its solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications and cable markets around the world. UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks.

UTStarcom was founded in 1991 and listed on the NASDAQ in 2000. With a new management team in 2011, the Company deployed a revamped growth strategy that concentrates on providing media operation support services through its Video Service Cloud (VSC) platform. UTStarcom has its operational headquarters in Beijing, China and research and development operations in China and India. For more information about UTStarcom, visit the Company's Web site at http://www.utstar.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release includes forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company's plan to build IBCPs and the Company's expectations regarding expansion contracts. These statements are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from the Company's current expectations. These include risks and uncertainties related to, among other things, the ability of the Company to capitalize on opportunities to build additional IBCPs, realize the anticipated benefits from IPCB expansion contracts, successfully provide media operation support services through its VSC platform, successfully operate its new services business and execute on its business plan. The risks and uncertainties also include the risk factors identified in the Company's latest Annual Report on Form 20-F, previous Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-K/A, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and Form 6-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is in a period of transition and the conduct of its business is exposed to additional risks as a result. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are based upon information available to the Company as of the date of this press release, which may change, and UTStarcom assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement.

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