XDC, 47.2% affiliate of EVS, signs agreemnts wi...

Liège (Belgium) / Cannes (France),  May 23, 2008. Following its  very
successful digital services performed during the Cannes Film Festival
2008, XDC, the leading digital  cinema service company in Europe  and
47.2% affiliate of EVS  Broadcast Equipment S.A. (Euronext  Brussels:
EVS.BR, Bloomberg EVS  BB) (Pinksheets: EVBEF),  has announced  today
the signature of non-exclusive long-term agreements with Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century
Fox Film Corporation and  The Walt Disney  Studios to co-finance  the
future deployment  of  maximum  8,000  DCI-compliant  digital  cinema
installations in 22 European countries. The roll-out period under the
agreement shall last for  a maximum of 5  years while each  digitized
screen shall be co-financed over a period of maximum 10 years.  Those
agreements are co-financing  more than  65% of the  value of  digital
exhibition systems  made  of projectors,  servers,  applications  and
services, for  a  maximum  estimated global  investment  of  EUR  600
million.

These agreements  mark and  ease  the beginning  of the  large  scale
deployment of digital cinema in Europe.  For XDC, the next steps  are
the  negotiation  of  comparable   agreements  with  European   movie
distributors, the  sale  of  this  co-financing  proposal  to  cinema
exhibitors across Europe and at last, both equity and debt raising to
fund the digital roll-out phase.

This infrastructure  deployment will  also help  XDC to  develop  its
other activities: first, the  design and sale  of cinema servers  and
software applications, secondly, the installation and maintenance  of
complete digital cinema systems for exhibitors, and thirdly,  digital
content processing and distribution  services for movie  distributors
and advertising sales houses.

There is  a global  potential of  35.000 screens  to digitize  across
Europe.



           XDC Signs Digital Cinema Deployment Agreements
with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation,
 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and The Walt Disney Studios

XDC, the leading digital cinema service company in Europe, has signed
non-exclusive long-term agreements with  four (4) major  distributors
to deploy 8,000 upcoming  DCI-compliant digital cinema  installations
across Europe.

Cannes  Film  Festival  2008   -  Warner  Bros.  Entertainment   Inc.
("Warners"), Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount"),  Twentieth
Century Fox  Film Corporation  ("Fox") and  The Walt  Disney  Studios
("Disney") will support XDC, acting  as a Deploying Entity, in  order
to roll out and fund digital systems for theatrical presentations  in
several countries  in  Europe. Under  the  terms of  the  agreements,
Warners, Paramount,  Fox  and  Disney have  independently  agreed  to
supply European exhibitors with their  feature films in digital  form
for projection  on  the  digital  screens,  as  well  as  temporarily
contribute to  the financing  of XDC's  DCI-compliant digital  cinema
projection systems.

The agreements with  Universal Pictures  and Sony Pictures  are in  a
very advanced stage and are expected to close shortly.

Veronika  Kwan-Rubinek,  President,  International  Distribution  for
Warner Bros.  Pictures commented:  "Warner  Bros. has  established  a
strong working  relationship  with  XDC  over  the  last  few  years,
supplying more digital  releases in  Europe than  any other  studio.
This is  the first  digital cinema  deployment agreement  for  Warner
Bros. Pictures International,  and I'm  pleased to  be crossing  this
milestone with a company as experienced and committed as XDC."

Andrew Cripps, President for Paramount said: "Paramount is  delighted
to have  reached  this agreement  with  XDC to  deploy  DCI-compliant
digital projection systems across Europe. We look forward to  working
together to bring digital cinema  to exhibitors and consumers  alike,
which we believe will  help to expand and  improve the experience  of
going to the cinema."

Paul Hanneman and  Tomas Jegeus, Co-Presidents  of Twentieth  Century
Fox  International, jointly  commented:  "This  agreement  with   XDC
represents  another  significant  plan   to  finance  and  roll   out
DCI-compliant digital projection systems  across Europe. Fox  remains
committed to the transition  to a digital  cinema platform and  looks
forward to supplying its  movies to DCI-compliant digital  projection
systems installed by XDC.  We are delighted  to collaborate with  XDC
staff, which has  the experience  and technical  expertise to  manage
this process."

Anthony Marcoly,  President of  Sales  and Distribution  for  Disney,
stated,  "Digital  cinema  represents  the  absolute  best  and  most
enjoyable way to experience motion pictures, and we're excited to  be
working with XDC  as they expand  the number of  theaters capable  of
exhibiting   films   digitally.    XDC's   commitment   to    install
DCI-Compliant digital cinema systems throughout Europe is great  news
for moviegoers, and provides Disney and the other Studios the ability
to release films  in the  highest quality  digital format  possible.
These XDC D-Cinema installations are also 3D-ready, which means  more
great 3D  experiences for European moviegoers.   With our  latest  3D
animated feature, 'Bolt,' due to arrive at the end of this year,  and
more than  10  other  Disney  3D  titles  already  in  the  pipeline,
audiences are in for some amazing new entertainment in the very  near
future."

Serge Plasch,  Chief Executive  Officer for  XDC said:  "We are  very
happy to  announce these  milestone agreements  which offer  European
exhibitors a  viable  business  model to  convert  their  screens  to
digital cinema. The support of Warners, Paramount, Fox and Disney  is
a key factor  for XDC  and  will  allow us  to keep  our momentum  in
Europe, where XDC, along with over 120 staunch pioneer customers have
shown that commercial digital cinema works."

"Successes like this are the result of great team efforts. XDC thanks
and recognizes  its  team  members  for  their  unflagging  business,
technical and legal  support during the  negotiations. John  Birchell
Hughes, our Senior Vice President, has guided us on the exciting  and
challenging journey that produced these  four agreements. We are  now
working intensively on enhancing our  products and services in  order
to offer the  best solutions to  our first customers  who will  start
their deployment plans within the next 12 months," concluded  Bernard
Collard, Executive Vice President for XDC.

For more information, please contact:

Jacques GALLOY, Director & CFO
Geoffroy d'OULTREMONT, Investor Relations & Corporate  Communications
Manager
EVS Broadcast  Equipment S.A.,  Liege Science  Park, 16  rue du  Bois
Saint-Jean, B-4102 Ougrée (Liège), Belgium
Tel: [phone].  E-mail: [e-mail]; www.evs-global.com