MSNBC With Streaming Media Search Technology Provider Singingfish to Deliver Streaming Audio and Video to Consumers Worldwide

Business Wire, August 6, 2002

Business Editors & Technology Writers

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2002

Leading Internet news provider -- MSNBC.com -- to deliver direct

feed of streaming media news content to world's leading audio and

video search engine -- Singingfish

Singingfish Inc. (www.singingfish.com), the world's leading audio and video search engine, and a Thomson multimedia business (NYSE:TMS)(Euronext:18453), today announced a collaboration with MSNBC (www.msnbc.com) to improve consumers' access to up-to-the-minute online news.

Coupled with the dynamic news coverage that MSNBC supplies, the data feed will provide users with immediate access to the richest streaming media news content available on the web.

With the proliferation of today's users accessing the Internet using high bandwidth connections such as cable modem, DSL and T1 lines, the demand for powerful search solutions that deliver fresh content, updated continuously is high. The arrangement with MSNBC allows Singingfish users to access the most relevant and up-to-date streaming video news stories (such as political speeches, regional and worldwide news broadcasts and other news stories) faster and more efficiently than ever before when searching at Singingfish.com and its portal customers.

Via a direct feed from MSNBC to Singingfish, users will be able to access news online as it breaks. MSNBC is able to provide an XML feed to Singingfish using the recently adopted international standard MPEG-7 metadata format. Using this XML implementation makes it easy for companies to interchange information related to multimedia. End users benefit by having MSNBC's high-quality streams and associated information (metadata) in the Singingfish index, taking advantage of the MPEG-7 format to ensure that they can easily find the news stories they are most interested in. Users also benefit from Singingfish's unique method of boosting streams for currency, which result in faster, more up-to-the-minute access to news stories than text-based search engines currently provide.

With nearly 10 million audio and video links, Singingfish is the leader in multimedia search with the world's largest index of streaming media available via any Internet enabled PC or CE device. Singingfish is part of the Thomson Digital Media Solutions division and has created a service that easily scales, enables real-time updates and eliminates dead links. With the search service being exceptionally adaptable to the user's needs, websites or portals are able to clearly differentiate their services by selecting customizable features such as depth of search, types of streamed formats returned and ability to change the user interface. "Bringing together the largest news provider on the Web with the worldwide leader in audio and video search services has been a terrific compliment of strengths and technologies. We're delighted to be working with MSNBC," commented Karen Howe, CEO of Singingfish.

Internet users interested in retrieving content from MSNBC can visit http://www.singingfish.com for the most accurate and comprehensive audio and video search available.

About Singingfish, Inc.

Singingfish, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thomson multimedia, develops multimedia search services that enable Internet users to quickly and easily locate popular streaming media content including entertainment, news and sports via any Internet-accessible PC or CE device. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company has become the world leader in audio and video search by compiling the world's largest index of streaming media, incorporating proprietary automation into its search solutions, and offering a robust suite of search services that are easily adaptable to each customer. More information about Singingfish is available online at www.singingfish.com

About Thomson

With sales of 10.5 billion Euros (U.S. $9.3 billion) in 2001 and 73,000 employees in more than 30 countries, Thomson multimedia (Euronext:18453) (NYSE:TMS) provides a wide range of video (and enabling) technologies, systems, finished products and services to consumers and professionals in the entertainment and media industries. To advance and enable the digital media transition, Thomson multimedia has five principal activities: Digital Media Solutions, Displays and Components, Consumer Products, Patents and Licensing and New Media Services. The company distributes its products under the THOMSON, RCA, and TECHNICOLOR brand names. For more information: www.thomson-multimedia.com.

Certain statements in this press release, including any discussion of management expectations for future periods, constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements due to changes in global economic, business, competitive market and regulatory factors. More detailed information on the potential factors that could affect the financial results of Thomson multimedia is contained in the Thomson multimedia filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.