Raleigh, N.C., April 1, 2008 - Inlet Technologies®, a leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced today that MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), the interactive media and Internet arm of Major League Baseball, will use Inlet’s Spinnaker solution to produce broadcast-quality streaming video for MLB.TV’s live out-of-market game broadcasts during the 2008 baseball season.

Inlet’s Spinnaker provides live encoding solutions that enable content providers to reach new audiences over new networks. Spinnaker delivers best-in-class quality for live media delivery applications such as sports programming over the Internet, IPTV, web streaming, PEG, broadband TV, enterprise, education or government video.

“With such a rapidly growing subscriber base of fully-engaged and dedicated viewers, we’re always pushing to deliver higher-quality live streaming content with new, interactive features,” said Justin Shaffer, senior vice president of new media, MLB.com. “Inlet’s Spinnaker allows us to produce multi-platform video at up to 1.2 megabits per second, up from just 700 kilobits per second in 2007, a dramatic enhancement of video quality and overall user experience.”

In addition to high-quality live streams of baseball games, Spinnaker will also play an integral role in the development of other interactive capabilities for MLBAM. Spinnaker will be used to create real-time highlights without the need for additional transcoding. Created directly from streamed data, highlights can be viewed with no buffering required. Inlet also created a customized mosaic software interface where users can simultaneously view thumbnails of 16 games in play. Users can click on a game and immediately begin viewing in full screen without buffering. Additionally, Inlet helped create capabilities for inline ad insertions during live streams.

“We are proud of the role Spinnaker is playing in enriching the online user experience for baseball viewers worldwide,” said Inlet CEO Neal Page. “The sports industry represents a huge market for streaming content on the web and by working closely with MLBAM, the leader in online sports programming, we are helping companies who want to commercialize this new media opportunity.”

About MLBAM

Established in June 2000 following a unanimous vote by the 30 Major League Baseball club owners to centralize all of baseball's Internet operations, MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM) is the interactive media and Internet company of Major League Baseball. MLBAM manages the official league site, www.MLB.com , and each of the 30 individual Club sites to create the most comprehensive Major League Baseball resource on the Internet. MLB.com offers fans the most complete baseball information on the Web, including up-to-date statistics, game summaries, extensive historical information, and exclusive features about Major League Baseball events and programs, including on-line ticket sales, baseball merchandise, authenticated memorabilia and collectibles, fantasy games, live and archived radio broadcasts of every game, live and archived video Webcasts of entire games, pitch-by-pitch enactment of games, and hosted post-game video highlight shows. MLB.com offers more live events on the Internet than any other Web site in the world.

About Inlet Technologies

Recently named to Frost & Sullivan’s Hot Company Watchlist for World Video Encoders and Transcoders, Inlet Technologies is the leading provider of advanced encoding solutions, enabling new media for new networks. Inlet solutions produce the highest quality video, faster and more efficiently than any other solution. Inlet allows content creators, programmers and distributors to increase production efficiency, reduce costs and deliver superior quality video over any Internet Protocol (IP) network. Inlet’s award-winning products – the Fathom® and Spinnaker™ encoder families and Semaphore™ automated quality control software – scale seamlessly from mobile to web to high-definition. Inlet solutions are ideal for applications such as Video-on-Demand, Web-based video, real-time, professional streaming and digital archiving and dailies. Inlet customers, such as Modern Video, Akimbo and Microsoft Studios, are able to expand their audiences and create new revenue from their valuable content. For more information, visit www.inlethd.com