Ionoco

P R E S S R E L E A S E
September 2, 2009

IONOCO BROADCASTS PAN-CARIBBEAN SUPER LOTTO GAME WITH INNOVATIVE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY

ionoco announces today that, in a deal with GTECH, its pioneering low-cost technology TV2GO Web has been successfully used in a lottery first to broadcast Super Lotto – the new pan-Caribbean lottery game. TV2GO Web is a fully-automated system that delivers broadcast quality television via the Internet, avoiding costly satellite uplinks and expensive studio editing.

Launched on August 28, 2009, the twice-weekly Spanish-language live show is recorded and broadcast in the Dominican Republic from the ionoco-equipped Loto Real TV studio, and is being broadcast initially to Barbados, Antigua and St Maarten. Other islands will follow.

During the show, TV2GO Web records and uploads the draw footage as a video file to a central file server via a secure T1 Internet line. This file is then downloaded simultaneously and automatically by the ionoco TV2GO computers located at the broadcasters in all participating islands. In Barbados, local production company Crucial Productions re-records the show voice-over in English as an audio file, which is pulled down via the same Internet network to the TV2GO computers on each island. Each of these computers then automatically edits together the video and audio files of the draw with the opening and closing sequences to create a complete broadcast quality draw show, which is then played out to air. The entire process takes less than 20 minutes.

TV2GO Web provides editing cost-savings as video, audio, and opening and closing sequences are spliced together automatically, requiring human involvement only to hit the ‘play’ button to play out the draws. The system is exceptionally simple to operate, fully secure, and includes a tamper-proof audit log.

David Walton, Director of ionoco, says: “In TV2GO Web we have created a unique, cutting-edge technology that will finally make multi-jurisdictional games affordable for many regions around the world and that can provide huge cost savings for existing multi-territory game operators.”

Erik Dyson, Regional Vice President of GTECH, adds: “TV2GO Web is an impressive example of ionoco’s technological capabilities. We are pleased to work with ionoco to offer televised lottery drawings throughout the Caribbean.”

This announcement follows the news last month of ionoco’s deal with GTECH to create a complete TV studio system for Loto Real’s new lottery draw shows in the Dominican Republic.

ionoco has an extensive list of gaming, lottery and gameshow projects under its belt, including BingoLotto in the UK (Virgin), CasinoJoy Blackjack and Poker (Poker Channel Europe), Deal or No Deal, 1 V 100 (Endemol).

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NOTES TO EDITORS:

About ionoco
ionoco is the world's leading broadcast technology provider of game play, control and graphics systems for TV game shows, TV programmes, channels and interactive TV. Their clients include production companies, broadcasters, gaming channels and lotteries, large and small, from all around the world. Based the UK, the company has offices in Los Angeles, France and Israel.

ionoco’s solutions power many of the world's best known television productions and have been proven in thousands of TV shows and studios. Their proprietary software platform, ionologic, running on ionocore computers, is uniquely configurable, can be easily integrated into any equipment or software and has unrivalled functionality, including a stunning real time 3D graphics engine.

The company was launched in 2008 after the merger of G-Graphics, Randomaker and TV2GO. Clients include Endemol, BBC, ITV Productions, FremantleMedia, 2waytraffic, GTECH, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Projects by ionoco include Million Dollar Password, Deal or No Deal, Power of 10, 20Q, and Colour of Money.

For further information, please visit www.ionoco.com/lottery_gaming_solutions.aspx or contact david.walton@ionoco.com.

About GTECH
GTECH is a leading gaming technology and services company. With 7,500 people in over 50 countries when combined with Lottomatica Group, GTECH provides innovative technology, creative content, and superior service delivery to effectively manage and grow today’s evolving gaming markets. GTECH is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lottomatica Group, one of the world’s largest commercial lottery operators and a market leader in the Italian gaming industry. For more information about the Company, please visit GTECH’s website at www.gtech.com.

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