Quadriga is Europe's leading provider of in-room hotel technology. Genesis enables guests to customize their world of entertainment and communication within the hotel room. Genesis will also provide guests with on-demand comedy, light entertainment, and sports programs.

The Quadriga Genesis solution effectively closes a ten-year gap that has seen domestic and corporate worlds embrace high-speed Internet access and digital technology while hotels have suffered through limited and often clumsy in-room systems. Quadriga is the first organization to provide high-speed Internet access through both the hotel TV and laptop computers in one integrated system, and to offer guests a wide range of entertainment options.

"Quadriga has established a new standard, offering a high-end, on-demand entertainment solution to the hotel industry," said Anna Chagnon, President of Bitstream. "Font Fusion offers Quadriga a high-quality, fast font engine -- including the fastest TrueType rasterizer on the market -- that fits in a small footprint. This is very important in devices that need to access the Internet, where memory and processing power are at a premium. Font Fusion is the perfect solution for entertainment systems that combine both the Internet and television in an on demand, interactive environment. We are very pleased that Quadriga chose Font Fusion for its font rendering engine."

"Font Fusion from Bitstream offers high-quality, readable text, which is very important to our customers," said Terry Austin, Quadriga's Technology Director. "Quadriga's relationship with European hotels and global content providers, along with our technical innovation and investment capability, means that we are a powerful partner for the hotel industry. This is something that our competitors clearly cannot match. Quadriga Genesis is the first of a family of products that we will be introducing over the next 12 months."

About Font Fusion

Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. Font Fusion is small and fast. Most developers can compile the source code in 32-105 KB, depending on options. It generates more than 16,000 characters per second, using the Arial font at 25 lines per em on a 233MHz Pentium® II processor, cache turned off.

Font Fusion performs well in memory- and performance-constrained environments. For example, a complete traditional Chinese TrueType font with over 13,000 characters can occupy as much as 8MB. With Font Fusion, the same characters occupy less than 0.5MB, representing considerable savings in memory and disk space costs.

Font Fusion is designed for operating systems, software applications, Web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other embedded systems and information and wireless appliances.

About Bitstream

Bitstream Inc. [NASDAQ: BITS] is the leading developer of font technology, digital fonts, and custom font designs for a wide variety of markets. Setting the standard for excellence in font technology, Bitstream holds numerous key patents that cover the creation of portable fonts for the Internet. Bitstream licenses its award-winning TrueDoc®, WebFont(TM), and Font Fusion(TM) technologies to Web and application developers, and to manufacturers of information appliances, wireless devices, set-top boxes, embedded systems, printers, and personal digital assistants.

Founded in 1981, Bitstream is the first digital font foundry. In 1999, Bitstream created MyFonts.com, Inc. (www.myfonts.com), the Web site for finding, trying, and buying fonts on line. Bitstream is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Find out more about Bitstream at www.bitstream.com.

About Quadriga

Quadriga is Europe's leading provider of interactive technology services to the hospitality industry. Its interactive services are currently utilized in over 321,000 hotel rooms worldwide and enable hotels to satisfy an increasing demand from travellers for guest room information and entertainment. Quadriga Genesis marks the transformation of Quadriga Worldwide from the supplier of TV technology to the media and communications partner to the hospitality industry.

Headquartered in the UK, Quadriga employs over 400 people and operates in 30 countries across Europe, including Austria, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, Greece and Israel. Quadriga also operates in several countries in the Middle East and Africa including Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

Further information about Quadriga is available at www.quadriga.com.

Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks, and Font Fusion and WebFont are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Other technologies and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.