TVWorks Signs Licensing Agreement with Bitstream

Cambridge, MA, June 26, 2007 –Bitstream, Inc., (NASDAQ: BITS) announced today that TVWorks, LLC has licensed Bitstream’s Font Fusion font rasterizing technology and the Tiresias Screenfont, a font developed by the Royal National Institute for the Blind to improve  the legibility of text on TV screens.  

Located in London, Ontario and Mill Valley, California, TVWorks (www.tvworks.com) is a joint venture between Comcast Communications and Cox Communications, two of the largest cable operators in the world, and is focused on developing next-generation interactive cable technology and services.

With TVWorks software, cable subscribers can enjoy new advanced services such as electronic program guides, personal video recorders, video on demand, interactive advertising, enhanced programming, portals and games. These services can run on today's deployed set-top boxes as well as emerging standards-based OCAP devices. TVWorks' long history in the cable industry traces back to 1973, with the founding of Cableshare, where TVWorks' ground-breaking technologies led to some of the world's earliest interactive television trials and deployments. Next, TVWorks teamed with Oracle's NCI division and Netscape's Navio spin-off and became Liberate Technologies, building the foundation of the TVWorks platform technology. More recently, TVWorks added MetaTV to the team, enhancing the platform with advanced application technology and services.

About Font Fusion
Font Fusion is Bitstream’s premier font subsystem, rendering high-quality characters in any format, at any resolution, on any platform or device. Delivering exceptional text rendering for consumer electronics devices and mobile phones, Font Fusion is the ideal solution for small embedded systems, including consumer electronics devices, mobile handsets, PDAs, set-top boxes, digital TVs, printers, graphics applications, and embedded systems.

Available as an SDK (Software Developers’ Kit), Font Fusion renders a wide variety of industry-standard and compact font formats: OpenType, TrueType, Type 1, CFF/Type2, T2K® Latin, T2K Asian, TrueDoc® PFR (portable font resource), Bitstream Speedo®, Font Fusion stroke (FFS), BDF (bitmap distribution format) format, as well as embedded bitmaps. Developers can also license different suites of worldwide fonts, including a certified Chinese (PRC) font, delta-hinted screen fonts, stroke-based Asian fonts, the Tiresias Screenfont, the CCTV Font Set, and the TV Font Pack.

About Bitstream
Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS - News) is a software development company focused on bringing unique software products to a wide variety of markets. The company’s core software products include award-winning fonts and font rendering software, mobile browsing and messaging software and variable data publishing and Web-to-print software for personalized marketing. For more information about Bitstream please visit www.bitstream.com.

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