Not only are we adding yet another quality channel from the
Turner stable but we are also creating a world exclusive with the
first ever broadcast channel to switch to MPEG-4 / AVC encoding. Turner Broadcasting System Europe
Limited is a Time Warner Company.

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The short film was selected as the best of the fest by a grand jury that
included actor Mark Hamill, "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Co-Creators
Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko , Director/Animator Mike Gabriel,
10-year-old cartoon connoisseur Noah Webb and Feature Storyboard Artist and
winner of the Producers' Choice Award in the first Nicktoons Film Festival,
Elizabeth Ito.nicktoons.4 million homes will have
access to the very best in interactive entertainment.

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Sponsors and Friends of the Festival include Bauhaus Software, SOFTIMAGE,
the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Stash DVD Magazine, Toon Boom,
Your Next Tee, Digital Tutors, Animation Magazine , Mighty Fine Inc.

"Our second season winners have established Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film
Festival as the premiere electronic animation festival for independent
animators and artists," concludes Fred Seibert, Festival Executive Director
and President of Frederator Studios, which is a co-producer of Nextoons:
The Nicktoons Film Festival.
HomeChoice offers customers always-on broadband Internet
connections with speeds ranging from 1Mb to 4Mb.

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There is also the
option to upgrade to the HomeChoice Anytime talk plan from as little
as GBP 5 per month.

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The
simple plot,
black-and-white format and straightforward animation add to the film's
undeniable charm.

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The other festival prizewinner is California Institute of the Arts student
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(VNL), provider of the HomeChoice entertainment and communications
service, today announced the launch of leading children's animation
channel, Toonami, to its platform .
Toonami is the world's first broadcast television channel to be
encoded using advanced compression technology.

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All jury members agreed that the clever story about the life
of crabs doomed to only travel in a straight line was a side-splitter.

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LONDON ----Video Networks Ltd.
Roger Lynch, Chairman + CEO, Video Networks Ltd said: "Video
Networks is delighted to announce this key enhancement to its
platform. The
company's service is currently available to 1. With the HomeChoice service, web pages appear instantly
delivering Internet access just as it should be.

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Toonami, which boasts successful shows such as Pokemon , Dragon
Ball Z and Teen TItans, has been automatically added to HomeChoice's
kid's TV package with immediate effect.
The HomeChoice entertainment service is the best all round digital
TV, video-on-demand and broadband Internet package on the market, with
over 80 of the best broadcast and on-demand entertainment channels
including BAFTA award-winning interactive music channels and more than
5000 on-demand movies, music videos and TV programmes.
Toonami is operated by Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) Europe
which delivers some of the world's most successful and well-known news
and entertainment brands - Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TCM (Turner
Classic Movies) and CNN International - across almost 100 countries in
Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

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Quintel, who earned both the Producers' Choice Award (an Apple G5
computer and a copy of Bauhaus Software's Mirage) and the Nextoons Student
Animator Award ($1,000 and a copy of SOFTIMAGE's XSI|Foundation).

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Quintel
took home both prizes for his short, "The Nave Man from Lolliland," about
a very gentile ambassador who totally loses his cool during a typically
benign encounter. Toth
Geza (Hungary); "Betty," Rie Ito (New York); "Oh, Dear," Jiwook Kim (Los
Angeles); "Farm Force," Dominic Carola & Paulo Alvarado (Florida); and "Fee
Fi Fo Fum," Shane Swinnea (Illinois).

Toonami is broadcast on channel 326

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Video Networks

Video Networks is a leading provider of broadband entertainment
and communications through its digital TV, video-on-demand (VOD), home
phone and Internet services under the brand name HomeChoice. In addition, included
in the monthly charge for TV + broadband services is a home phone
service, offering free evening and weekend calls to local and national
numbers, and low rates to UK mobiles and abroad.

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The remaining live broadcast channels,
including Turner-owned Cartoon Network and Boomerang, are expected to
be migrated within the next two months.4 million homes across
London and Stevenage and by June 2005, 2. With exclusive
rights to top shows including Pokemon, Teen Titans, Justice League ,
Star Wars: Clone Wars, One Piece, Rave Master and the Dragon Ball
sagas, Toonami offers viewers the chance to view shows unavailable on
any other channel in the UK.

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After a highly successful second season, with
hundreds of entries received from around the world, Nextoons: The Nicktoons
Film Festival proudly announces that Arthur de Pins, the French filmmaker
who entered "La Rvolution des Crabes," is the $10,000 Grand Prize winner."

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Films that made it into the Top Ten category and received an additional
screening in the final episode of the on-air portion of the Festival on
Nicktoons included: "Anthem," PSYOP (New York); "Prey," Tom Kyzivat
(Illinois); "The Mousochist," John Dilworth (New York); "Maestro," M. The superior quality of Toonami 's programming will
now be matched by the high spec picture.

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Sky Sports and
Sky Movies channels are available on the HomeChoice platform under a
retail distribution agreement with BSkyB.

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TOONAMI is the action animation channel for boys.

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PRESS RELEASE Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival Announces 2005 Winners

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Video Networks Announces Launch of Toonami the World's First Broadcast Channel Encoded With MPEG-4 / AVC; VNL Invites Kids to Have a Toontastic Time with Toon

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It also marks the
beginning of Video Networks move to advanced MPEG-4 / AVC encoding for
all of its broadcast channels.
With Internet access that is up to eight times the speed of normal
broadband and up to eighty times faster than conventional dial-up -
using HomeChoice's 4Mb package - everlasting downloads are a thing of
the past.

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The
development illustrates that Video Networks is continuing to push the
boundaries in terms of its technical innovation and providing the best
product set at the best price for its customers."
Paul Cackett, Toonami Channel Manager , said: "As the first channel
in the world to broadcast live using this new technology, Toonami is a
the cutting-edge.

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