S2 Licensing Taking Appointments at IBC2011

EL SEGUNDO, California, August 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- Patent License Offered Under Essential DVB-S2 Patents

S2 Licensing announced today it again will be present at IBC in Amsterdam.  The licensing administrator is scheduling appointments throughout the Exhibition with companies utilizing the DVB-S2 standard and therefore requiring a license under S2 Licensing's suite of DVB-S2 patents.

For the convenience of adopters, S2 Licensing offers a license under the combined portfolios (over 100 international patents) of DTVG Licensing, Inc., the European Space Agency (ESA), and Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA (RAI).  The license is available to all parties practicing or planning to practice the DVB-S2 standard, and provides favorable and non-discriminatory terms to all licensees. For consumer applications, such as satellite television set-top box receivers, a license under the S2 Licensing patents is available for a one-time royalty of US$0.50 for each encoder or decoder present in a product for quantities exceeding 500,000 over the term of the license, and US$1.00 per encoder or decoder in lower quantities.  Professional products may be licensed under multiple licensing models, for the convenience and at the selection of the adopter.

Parties interested in further information or scheduling a meeting with S2 Licensing at IBC2011 are invited to contact John T. Whelan, Esq., (info@S2Licensing.com), or visit our website at http://www.S2Licensing.com.

About DTVG Licensing, Inc.

DTVG Licensing, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTV) and is the owner by assignment of several families of patents essential to practice the DVB-S2 Standard. The DIRECTV Group is a world-leading provider of digital television entertainment services. Through its subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries in Latin America, the DIRECTV Group provides digital television service to more than 19 million customers in the United States and over 10.6 million customers in Latin America.

About RAI

RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) is the Italian Public Broadcaster for radio and television over the air, via satellite and cable or any other means. It provides programme production and network operation for three national analogue television channels broadcast in VHF/UHF bands. These programmes are re-broadcast in digital format by satellite and in two terrestrial bouquets, including a growing number of thematic channels in clear. It provides also production and network operation for three radio channels, broadcast in MW and FM, and of international radio programmes in SW.

About ESA

European Space Agency (ESA) is an international organisation, with 17 Member States, set up to provide for and to promote, for exclusively peaceful purposes, cooperation among European states in space research and technology and their space applications. ESA draws up a European space plan and has the task of carrying it out. Its activities span the fields of space science, Earth observation, telecommunications, satellite navigation, human spaceflight, microgravity research, exploration and space transportation systems. ESA has its headquarters in Paris, France, with establishments in The Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Spain, a launch base in Kourou, French Guiana, and offices in Washington, Moscow and Brussels.