Thomson Receives Two Emmy Awards for the Second Year in a Row

Paris/Nevada City, Calif., - For the second year in a row, theNational Television Academy (NTA) has announced that Thomson (EuronextParis: 18453; NYSE: TMS), the worldwide leader in video, and filmtechnologies, products and services, will be presented with two 2003Technology and Engineering Emmy awards. This year's awards recognizetechnologies that have greatly advanced the field of image acquisitionand helped broadcast news editors work faster and more efficiently. Theawards were presented Thursday, October 23 during the NTA annual awardsdinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. They represent theeighteenth and nineteenth Technology and Engineering Emmy Awardsreceived by Thomson and its acquired companies in their combinedhistories.

The first Emmy award received by Thomson recognizes the company'sdevelopment of its patented Dynamic Pixel Management (DPM) FT-17technology used in its Grass Valley LDK camera line. The technologyoversamples information coming into a camera's sensor, or CCD, tocreate more realistic and lifelike images.

Thomson's DPM technology was first used on the LDK 10 and LDK 10Pcameras. Today, it is leveraged across the entire LDK camera line, fromthe recently introduced LDK 300 standard-definition camera andmulti-format LDK 6000 mk II WorldCam high-definition camera to theGrass Valley Viper FilmStream Camera system for digitalcinematography.

The second award honors Thomson and for the pioneering developmentof software technology that speeds the work of broadcast newseditors.

At a basic level, the software lets broadcasters automaticallycapture two copies of the same video feed: a full-bandwidth,high-resolution file and a compressed proxy copy of the same file.Using unique identifiers, the software ensures that the two files areinextricably linked so that an editor can create a rough edit of astory offline, at a desktop PC, then finish the edit with inhigh-resolution edit suite. The result is faster story creation, moreefficient use of editing rooms, and greater time to create richerstories.

This unique method for fast editing and file retrieval is in usetoday and has been significantly advanced across the Grass ValleyProfile XP Media Platform server line as well as in the Grass ValleyNewsBrowse Web-based browser/editor, which is the centerpiece of theGrass Valley Digital News Production Solution.

In 2002, Thomson won two Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards forits development and/or commercialization of the 16:9 widescreen aspectratio and for the development of the consumer digital set top box forsatellite and cable broadcasting.

About the Awards

The National Television Academy Technology and Engineering EmmyAward is awarded to an individual, a company, or a scientific ortechnical organization for developments and/or standardization involvedin engineering technologies which either represent so extensive animprovement on existing methods or are so innovative in nature thatthey materially have affected the transmission, recording, or receptionof television.

About the National Television Academy

The National Television Academy, whose total dedication isexcellence, is a professional service organization for all aspects ofthe Television, Cable and Satellite industries. Its symbol ofexcellence, the Emmy, is awarded in six major national categoriesincluding Sports, News/Documentary, Daytime, Technology, andInternational (through its International Academy). Local Emmys aregiven in nineteen regions across the United States. Beyond awards, theAcademy has extensive educational projects, scholarships, publications,and major activities of impact to both industry professionals and theviewing public itself. For more information, please visit the websiteat www.emmyonline.org.

About Thomson

Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides a wide range ofvideo (and enabling) technologies, systems, finished products andservices to consumers and professionals in the entertainment and mediaindustries. To advance and enable the digital media transition, Thomsonhas four principal divisions: Content and Networks, Consumer Products,Components, and Licensing. The company distributes its products underthe Technicolor, Grass Valley, THOMSON and RCA brand names.

For more information: www.thomson.net