WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LICENSES DOWNLOAD-TO-OWN PROGRAMMING TO FRENCH WEBSITE GLOWRIA

Burbank, CA (May 15, 2006) – Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group today announced it has signed a licensing agreement with glowria, the leading online DVD rental service in continental Europe, to deliver download-to-own Warner Bros. entertainment in France through the glowria Website (www.glowria.fr).

The more than 100 Warner Bros. titles available through the service will include Charlieand The Chocolate Factory, Polar Express, House of Wax, The Island, the Harry Potter and Batman series of films as well as more than 30 television shows including the first season of Friends and Nip/Tuck.

“We are continuing to push the envelope by providing Warner Bros. entertainment through innovative digital channels ,” said Jim Wuthrich, Senior Vice President, Warner Home Video. “Electronic sell-through is the next frontier for home entertainment and we are pleased to be working with the leading French online DVD rental company to make this a reality in France . ”

“Relationships like this one demonstrate Warner Home Video's European strategy to explore and implement new distribution systems, to make not only our US content but also local programming available," said Philippe Cardon, Executive Vice President & General Manager, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Warner Home Video . “We are committed to innovating and providing consumers broad choice through as many channels as possible.”

glowria's download-to-own offering will expand on its online DVD rental service and allow users to purchase and download a permanent and legal copy of a digital file for unlimited playback on their personal computer. In conformity with French industry agreement, glowria's download-to-own service will offer Warner Bros. new releases 33 weeks after the theatrical debut.

"Warner Bros. award-winning titles are a great addition to our current slate of movies, TV shows and games, and further support our goal of providing the home viewers with the best and most complete entertainment possible," said Mihai Crasneanu, founder and CEO of glowria. “glowria is the 'one stop shop' for video entertainment and our new download-to-own offering perfectly complements our existing DVD rental services by providing yet another form of personalized of media entertainment to help meet consumer demand however and whenever they want it.”

All Warner Bros. download-to-own content will be made available in Microsoft's Windows Media Video format and will be copy-protected by Microsoft's Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) software. Consumers can purchase content on a per-download basis directly from the glowria Website.

“Our deal with glowria is another milestone in the area of legal movie viewing on the Internet, with 'download to own' technology helping avoid many of the issues leading to digital movie piracy,” states Philippe Bastard de Crisnay, Managing Director of Warner Home Video France. “glowria's experience and overall quality of service make them a natural partner.”

 

ABOUT WARNER BROS. HOME ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
The Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group was founded in October 2005 to bring together all of Warner Bros.' businesses involved in the digital delivery of entertainment content to consumers, while furthering Warner Bros.' mandate to harness the benefits of emerging technologies and manage the risks these technologies pose to the economic value of the content. The business units comprising the WBHEG include Warner Bros. Digital Distribution, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (including Warner Bros. Games), Warner Bros. Technical Operations and Warner Bros. Anti-Piracy Operations.

ABOUT GLOWRIA
Founded in 2003, glowria has raised 12.5 million euros, is the leading on-line DVD rental service in Continental Europe, and is growing to become the leading provider of personalised on-demand entertainment in Germany and France . glowria's Video on Demand (VoD) service, accessible to consumers via PC and television, is currently available in France and will soon be available in Germany . glowria also provides VoD to ISPs, as well as satellite and cable operators, via a white-label service. For more information, please visit www.glowria.fr

 
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