NxTV Appoints Tech Innovator as CTO to Drive Development

Advanced technology initiatives to be led by new hires on NxTV executive team

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. October 14, 2008

LOS ANGELES, CA, October 17, 2007. NxTV, Inc., the first and largest provider of Internet Protocol Video on Demand (IPVOD), IPTV and interactive digital IP-based in-room entertainment and technology solutions in the hospitality industry, today announced it appointed Hooman Honary as Chief Technical Officer, and Eric Litwin as Senior Vice President of Applications Development. The appointments will drive NxTV's rapid expansion in digital IP communications delivery.

"Hooman Honary is a world-class contributor to the state of the art of data and content delivery," said Russell P. Reeder, President and COO of NxTV. "Hooman's extensive experience with Broadcom and Intel developing WiFi, WiMax, IP and digital media solutions, coupled with his industry experience from Oxford Media, is a perfect fit for NxTV that will drive its innovation and continued rapid expansion." Mr. Honary's impact in the areas of multimedia communications and Internet wired and wireless architectures includes 21 patents in these fields.

Mr. Honary comes to NxTV from Oxford Media, Inc., where he was CTO, responsible for developing strategy, technology and products for a nationwide on-demand content delivery network. He was also the principal architect responsible for development of Oxford's next-generation video server and set top box technology and roadmap. Prior to his tenure with Oxford, Mr. Honary was with Broadcom, where he served as senior strategic technologist/wireless-multimedia architect, working on the wireless multimedia initiative as well as representing Broadcom in IEEE 802.11, WiFi Alliance and the WiMAX forum. Prior to that he was with Intel Architecture Labs, where he was a key contributor in numerous leading edge wireless and media initiatives including the next generation Intel Software Defined Radio architecture "Reconfigurable Communications Architecture" (RCA). He came to Intel as part of the acquisition of VxTel, a company he joined early on which developed high performance signal processors for VoIP processing.

Mr. Honary's role with NXTV will include the formulation of technology strategy for various product lines and new services and applications, contribution to the standardization of next generation technologies, involvement in creation of product and technology roadmaps, and the establishment of market alliances with companies possessing products and technologies that are strategic to NXTV's initiatives. As an expert in the field of multimedia communications, he will also publish whitepapers, and be involved with media activities including interviews and customer interactions.

In order to enable a world-class service provider back-office infrastructure, NxTV also tapped Eric Litwin as its new Senior Vice President, Applications Development. In his new position, Mr. Litwin will be responsible for architecting and enhancing NxTV's back office and transactional processing capabilities to support the company's growth in hospitality and other industries. Litwin joins NxTV from Countrywide Capital Markets, a division of Countrywide Financial Corporation, where he guided the technical direction of the company's systems enhancement as Senior VP, Information Technology. Prior to his tenure at Countrywide, Mr. Litwin was a senior consultant with Arthur Andersen Business Consulting. Mr. Litwin holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles.