New Use of Orb’s Free MyCasting Service Allows Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation 3 Game Consoles to Serve as Bridge Between Home PC & Big Screen

Don’t Waste $300 on Apple TV; The 17 Million Who OWN a Game Console Can Download Orb and Start Enjoying PC-to-TV Entertainment Today for Free

Orb Networks(TM) announced today that the 17 million households with gaming consoles have no need to purchase Apple TV. A simple download of the free Orb MyCasting service (http://www.orb.com/) provides TV access to all of the digital entertainment on the home PC, using the console as the bridge.

“Because it’s Apple, Apple TV will get a lot of buzz. But, let’s look at the scorecard. Just one day after Apple announces Apple TV and Orb announces digital media support for all game consoles, Apple boasts zero users vs. Orb with 17 million users who can enjoy their media on TV. By the end of year — even in a wildly successful scenario — Apple will have 1 million vs. Orb’s 25 million users who can enjoy their media on TV,” said Joe Costello, chairman and CEO of Orb Networks.

Costello continues, “And, this small community of Apple TV users will be paying $299 for a special purpose proprietary piece of hardware, while the rest of us get more media freedom for free. Bottom line, Orb is Apple TV for the rest of us.”

How Orb Works with your game console: 1) Download load Orb at http://www.orb.com/ (Version v2.00.0856 or higher) onto your always-on Windows PC at home. It takes less than 3 minutes to do. 2) For the Wii and PS3, turn on the TV that is connected to your game console and open the Web browser. Using the game console remote control or controller, log onto your Orb account mycast.orb.com. 3) For the XBox 360, go to the media tab and select the media type (video, photos, or music) you want to play on your TV. Click “computer” from the list of options, and you will see a list of the computers running Orb on your LAN. Select one and then pick from the available video, photos, or music. 4) That’s it. Now enjoy, watch and listen to any digital content on your home PC — videos, music, Internet TV and radio or any other online content you programmed in your Orb MyCast application: they are now all there for enjoying on your TV screen.

Orb MyCasting lets you enjoy all of the digital entertainment stored on the home PC for viewing on any device with a streaming media player and Internet connection — such as other PCs, laptops, PDAs, mobile phones with streaming players, and now game consoles including Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PlayStation 3. Orb lets users build and organize their own “channels” for music, photos, video, TV, and documents stored on their home computer, as well as online videos from the growing source of Internet TV and content sites.

About Orb Networks, Inc.

Orb Networks is an award-winning developer of software and services that unlock the digital media stored on personal computers. Orb MyCasting gives consumers secure, free, instant, and everywhere-access to everything from their photos and video to TV and music on virtually any Web-enabled device. The company’s partners and affiliates include: AOL Winamp, AMD, Creative Labs, Hauppauge, Hutchison, Nokia, Orange and Vodafone. Orb Networks is a privately held company in Emeryville, Calif. For more information about Orb Networks and the Orb MyCasting service, please visit http://www.orb.com/.

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