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Fremont, CA October 8, 2009 - After dominating the Blu-ray home theater PC market with its CES award-winning Xonar HDAV series audio cards, ASUS has today announced a free-of-charge upgrade from its bundled ArcSoft TotalMedia® Theatre 2 to ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 for all current HDAV users via download at ASUS’ support site. The powerful Xonar HDAV- TotalMedia Theatre combination provides the world’s first and only true lossless blu-ray audio bitstream via HDMI for the PC platform with XP/Vista OS, including Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD-Master, Dolby Digital Plus, etc.

Brand-new user experience with Vista SP2 and upcoming Win7 support
“The bundled ArcSoft TotalMedia Theatre 3 version not only provides Vista SP2 support, but also takes Xonar HDAV series’ user experience to the next level”, said by George Tang, ArcSoft’s VP and General Manager of Video and Home Entertainment Group. “ArcSoft TotalMediaTheatre is our flagship Blu-ray and multimedia playback software. Version 3 continues offering exceptional video and audio performance in a brand new, sleek and more intuitive user interface as well as supporting the popular online HD internet video format - MKV, broadening users viewing options. Version 3 will also be Windows 7 compatible in the future, in preparation for the new generation of Microsoft OS.”

The absolute leader in PC blu-ray audio solution
“The Xonar HDAV1.3 series provides not only leading innovation but also excellent service for its customers,” said Sean Lai, Senior Manager, Multimedia Product Marketing Dept., ASUSTek Computer Inc. “The availability of TotalMedia Theatre 3 will be just one of our continuing customer support benefits offering the best audio / video quality for HTPC systems.”

Existing Xonar HDAV customers can download TotalMedia Theatre 3 for Xonar* now at ASUS’ support page.

ASUS Xonar HDAV 1.3 with TotalMedia Theatre:

* Bit to bit exact lossless audio output; no more audio down-sampling
* Supports DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus, up to 192Khz, 24-bit, and 7.1 channel LPCM audio formats
* 24p cinematic frame rate support

For more information on Xonar HDAV, visit: http://www.asus.com
For more information on Arcsoft TotalMedia Theater 3, visit: http://www.arcsoft.com/estore
*Xonar version does not support Slim HD and 10 ft UI from TMT3 Retail.

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About ASUS
ASUS is a leading company in the new digital era. With a global staff of more than ten thousand and a world-class R&D design team, the company’s revenue for 2008 was 8.1 billion U.S. dollars. ASUS ranks among BusinessWeek’s InfoTech 100, and has been on the listing for 12 consecutive years.