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Videon Central, Inc

Videon Central, Inc. June, 2009. Videon is a privately held company in State College, PA started in 1997 with a single round of “capitalization” totaling $3,500 Over 2 million BD players feature Videon’s middleware

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Videon Central, Inc

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  1. Videon Central, Inc June, 2009

  2. Videon is a privately held company in State College, PA started in 1997 with a single round of “capitalization” totaling $3,500 • Over 2 million BD players feature Videon’s middleware • Our system level integration and support has enabled CE solutions from high-end products by Bowers & Wilkins to mass market solutions from LG & Samsung • We have an employee focused attitude at Videon that stresses equal importance at every level of responsibility • Videon’s original founders continue to provide key guidance • Videon’s vision, execution, leadership and philosophy stems from Todd Erdley CEO, Paul Brown COO, Mike Daulerio VP Business Development, and Jim Condon CTO • The leadership team has enabled Videon to consistently be part of Inc5000’s fastest growing companies • Videon has won many awards for entrepreneurship and technology • Videon’s Board of Advisors are leaders in the CE arena

  3. Business Overview Videon Technology, Design, & Mfg Solutions In-Flight Entertainment High-end Home Theatre Technology Partners Consumer Electronics COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  4. A History Of DVD Leadership • 1st DVD player for PC market: • 1st 480p DVD player: • 1st 1080p DVD player: • 1st Universal Blu-ray & HD DVD player: • 1st Blu-ray & Widget Channel demonstration: COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  5. Videon Middleware in >2,000,000 units #2 #3 Blu-ray player Blu-ray player BDP-1600 BDP-1500 BDP-2500/2550 BDP-1200 BDP-1000 BD-UP5000 CNET-2007 Best of CES Winner BH100 BH200 BD300 10,000,000 in ‘10!!! Insignia NS-2BRDVD

  6. CE Technology Trends • Near Term • Growth and integration of Blu-ray Disc technology • Integration w/ tru2way (Open Cable platform for retail applications) • Launch of Widget Channel across platform • Internet access from any box • Device consolidation • Three Years • 3D-TV • Next Gen HDMI with Ethernet support COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  7. A continual flow of features Videon is developing the A/V Integration Architecture (aVia) and a PC Development Platform based on aVia to enable CE Convergence of continually evolving IP, new features and content Videon Confidential

  8. How can educators help Videon? • Ensure students understand their global position • We will never out-educate our students on the basics • The basics of education are very important but basics applied to creative thoughts are even more important • We will always out-educate our students on the basics if we link the basics to the US leadership position • Encourage if not stress experimentation • Enable failure • It is more important to be broadly educated than to be deeply educated as Industry will provide the depth COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  9. Core Purpose – Our GOAL

  10. Core Values Our values define what we stand for, what we expect, our personality and what we desire. Moreover, these values define how we view one another and our customers:

  11. Our Culture Kids at Work Information Session - Brown Bag Lunch Dogs at Work Family Baseball Outing Bowling Lunch Videon Band Family Picnic Halloween Party Lunch-time Fun Bring Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day Christmas Open House 10-yr Anniversary Trip – Costa Rica Shenanigans 10-yr Anniversary Trip - Iceland

  12. The Opportunity • Employees at Videon are challenged to define what they want to achieve • Employees are encouraged to pursue that goal through their tactical actions, personal creativity, and shared vision that improves the company • Videon assumes every person that walks into our facility has the basic education necessary to do amazing things • Videon looks for employees that are risk takers, visionary, have a thirst for knowledge and know how to fit their role into the collective COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  13. The Results…. • Employee #1 • Background • Two year degree beyond high school at typical Pennsylvania town • Professional experience as an electronics technician • Opinion: He came to Videon saying all he will ever be is a technician • Result • General Manager of Videon’s Product Division • Oversees 20 people • Role model for employees COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  14. The Results….. • Employee #2 • Background • Two year degree after graduating from a very rural setting • Had limited exposure to “the world” • Possessed strong basic intellect • Result • Technically brilliant and a visionary • Has grown to a position of responsibility for servicing products throughout the world • Will ultimately transition to being the equivalent of a 4 yr engineer COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

  15. We Are Partners in Education • We see your role as: • Provide the foundation • Create a world awareness • Enable creativity through experimentation and failure • We see our role as: • Build on the base you create by providing a deep technical education into our business area • Create an atmosphere that allows people to truly enjoy work • Continually motivate employees to reach their full potential • Together we can enable success COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL

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