Thomson’s NexGuard Watermarking Integrated in Dolby Digital Cinema Servers

PARIS–(MARKET WIRE)–Dec 13, 2007 — Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453) (NYSE:TMS – News), today announced Dolby Laboratories Inc. (NYSE:DLB – News) offers the option of NexGuard™, Thomson’s content security solution suite, in its digital cinema servers. NexGuard watermarking is intended to prevent illegal recordings of digital cinema content, as required by the Digital Cinema Initiative’s (DCI) V1.1 specifications. This partnership enables Dolby to embed NexGuard’s video forensic watermarking solution in its digital cinema server, which can replay DCI compliant 2D and 3D digital cinema images. Thomson and Dolby have been working together since 2006.