MaLigne TV launches its "Le Bouquet TV" Package to Cover Turin Games

19th January, 2006 -Following on from the success of MaLigne TV, which now has over 200,000 subscribers for premium TPS, CanalSat and Canal+ packages, France Telecom is broadening its telephone outlet-based digital television service with the launch of its Bouquet TV package on February 1, offering a selection of free special-interest channels and seven exclusive events channels dedicated to the Turin Winter Games from February 10 onwards.

In this way, with Le Bouquet TV and its MPEG4-standard decoder, MaLigne TV is able to offer free access to a range of general and specialized channels as well as all the free channels available with Digital Terrestrial Television (*).

MaLigne TV, France Telecom's phone line-based digital television service, is expanding its offering to include new services, with the only complete digital television package available on the market:

Le Bouquet TV, with around 30 general and special-interest channels available from February 1 onwards with MaLigne TV
Exclusive channels for major events, with seven dedicated to the Turin Winter Games from February 10 to 26

Access to all of the TPS and Canal+ Group's premium packages

All the football matches from Ligue 1 live and exclusive on cable with Canal+ and Foot+

Mon Magneto, the first ADSL-based digital television recording service

24/24 Video, the first ever channel promoting video on demand (VoD) and the arrival of the Wild Bunch and Wild Side catalogs

France Telecom is offers:

All the premium packages from TPS, CanalSat and Canal+ Le Bouquet; more than 200,000 customers have already chosen to use MaLigne TV to access the 200 channels offered by our partners

All the football matches from Ligue 1 live with MaLigne TV, Canal+ and Foot +, a cable and ADSL exclusive to ensure that customers do not miss any matches from the French championship.

Mon Magneto, a unique ADSL offering with the first ever digital recording service, allowing customers to manage live recordings directly on their decoder's hard drive (Personal Video Recorder, PVR), ensuring that they do not miss any of their favorite TV programs.

Exclusive and dedicated channels for major events, with seven free and exclusive channels to experience all that the Turin Winter Games have to offer from February 10 to 26. Through a partnership with France Television, all the events will be available on France Telecom's digital television service, in addition to a daily recap and video on demand (VoD) reviews looking back over previous Games.

The 24/24 Vidéo channel for promoting the video on demand content available, with instant access to the entire partner catalog, offering a large and regularly updated selection of films and TV programs.

Launched in December 2003, the market's first VoD service on ADSL TV makes it possible for customers to have access to recent films such as The Polar Express (Warner Bros), Million Dollar Baby (Canalplay), Brice de Nice (Multivision), as well as leading documentaries such as Homo Sapiens and L'Odyssée de l'Espèce (France Télévisions Distribution), Le dernier seigneur des Balkans (ARTE), and even children's shows with The Magic Roundabout (Canalplay), Titeuf (Zooloo Kids ) and Pépin Trois Pommes (Europe Image) among others.

As of February, classic films from the Warner Bros studio will be available on VoD, including Batman and Robin, Batman Forever, Amarcord, Deliverance, Bonnie and Clyde and 2001 Space Odyssey.

Independent cinema will also be covered, with over a hundred titles from the Wild Bunch group - Wild Bunch and Wild Side catalogs - such as Land of the Dead, the latest film from George Romero, as well as future films produced or distributed by the group.

For more information about France Telecom please visit http://www.francetelecom.com