Bordeaux, France, December 16^th, 2004- For all registered LightWave [8] users, NewTek Europe, PNY Technologies Europe and NVIDIA have teamed up to offer a 30% discount off on a Quadro FX700 board: 455 € + VAT instead of 649 € + VAT (UK RRP: £305 + VAT instead of £435 + VAT), a saving of nearly 200 € (£130) !! This offer is valid until January 31st, 2005.

This is a fantastic opportunity for registered LightWave 3D [8] users and also for registered users of previous versions of LightWave wishing to upgrade to LightWave 3D [8] in order to buy a high performance professional graphics board with 30% off the MSRP.

This offer comes in addition to NewTek Europe’s current "VAT Free your creativity " special running extended until December 24^th 2004 on full LightWave 3D [8] packages (1395 € inc. VAT instead of 1395 € + VAT/UK RRP £995 inc. VAT instead of £995 +VAT) which now also include the English printed manual at no extra charge and the photo-based 3D modelling package: RealViz Image Modeler 4.0 for FREE (a 200 €/£840 value).

With this new Quadro FX 700 offer, NewTek Europe and its partners are giving a great opportunity to purchase professional and innovative products at unmatched prices, again.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX 700 by PNY delivers an unprecedented price:performance ratio to industries that rely on intensive computer-aided design, digital content creation and scientific visualisation software applications:

• Unique passive cooling solution providing an entirely silent solution for low acoustic work environment. The absence of fan insures a longer lifetime of the board.
• The industry’s only true 128-bit floating-point graphics pipeline for millions of colours in a broad dynamic range, stunning visual quality and the highest degree of accuracy.
• Industry-leading 12-bit sub-pixel precision to ensure the elimination of sparkles, cracks and other rasterisation anomalies.
• Full support for OpenGL® 1.5 and Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmability as well as a high level shading languages to enabling professionals to build sophisticated real-time shaders for simulating a virtually unlimited range of physical characteristics and surface properties.

LightWave [8] users who want to benefit from this offer can find the application form here: http://www.pny-europe.com/uk/quadro_promo.asp

To locate the nearest Quadro dealer, please refer to PNY Europe website: http://www.pny-europe.com/uk/buy_home.asp

Pricing & availability

LightWave [8] for Windows and Macintosh platforms is available through NewTek Europe and its resellers for a suggested retail price of 1 395 € plus VAT/ UK £995 plus VAT (special offer extended until December 24th, 2004: 1 395 € inc. VAT/UK RRP £995 inc. VAT + Realviz ImageModeler 4.0 included for FREE). Current LightWave users may upgrade to LightWave [8] for a suggested retail price of 495 € plus VAT/£345 plus VAT (special offer extended until December 24th, 2004: 495 € plus VAT/£345 plus VAT + Realviz ImageModeler 4.0 included for FREE). To locate the nearest authorised reseller or distributor, see our locator at http://www.newtek-europe.com/uk/purchase/resellers.html.

About PNY Technologies

PNY Technologies started its activity in 1985 in New Jersey manufacturing and marketing a complete range of Memory products. To expand its business the company acquired a facility in France in 1994 to supply to the European market. PNY has several sales offices in Europe (Germany, France, UK).

PNY's partnerships with major OEM's (Brother, Cisco, Dell, Epson, HP, IBM, Kyocera, QMS, Sony, Toshiba,...) bring constant improvements in all the latest technologies, guaranteeing quality and service.

PNY has established long-standing relationships with a number of major retail channel partners where the company has earned its reputation as a supplier of top quality, innovative solutions for everything in and around the computer. PNY's memory products currently account for a majority share of all retail sales in the US and Europe.

PNY has significantly expanded its consumer line in recent years with the introduction of a full range of Flash Media (Memory cards and peripherals). Since 2000 PNY has also been a leading supplier not only of consumer graphics cards with its Verto brand, but also of professional workstation graphics boards with NVIDIA Quadro® by PNY.

For additional information, please visit the company Website at http://www.pny-europe.com

About NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation is a market leader in visual computing technology dedicated to creating products that enhance the interactive experience on consumer and professional computing platforms. Its graphics and communications processors have broad market reach and are incorporated into a wide variety of computing platforms, including consumer digital-media PCs, enterprise PCs, professional workstations, digital content creation systems, notebook PCs, military navigation systems, and video game consoles. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and employs more than 1,900 people worldwide. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.nvidia.com.

About NewTek and NewTek Europe.

Newtek Europe is based near Bordeaux, in south-west France and deals with Newtek product distribution, communication and technical maintenance for customers throughout Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East.

With headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, NewTek, Inc. is a leading provider of full-featured video editing, animation and special effects tools including Video Toaster™ and LightWave 3D^®, winner of the 2003 Primetime Emmy^® Engineering Award.

NewTek launched the desktop video revolution in 1990 with the release of the legendary Video Toaster™. The company's products are used worldwide on projects ranging from home video to feature film.

Recent television and film projects using LightWave 3D^® include "I, Robot", Spiderman 2, The Manchurian Candidate, Exorcist: The Beginning, Garfield, Hellboy, Van Helsing, Triplets of Belleville, The Last Samurai, Torque, Children of Dune, Battlestar: Galactica, Firefly, Taken, Smallville, Star Trek: Enterprise, Matrix Reloaded, Collateral Damage, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Agent Cody Banks, Daredevil, Spy Kids II, Oscar^®-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Final Fantasy, Blackhawk Down.

Recent game titles include Doom III, Burnout 3, Unreal Tournament, Serious Sam for XBox, Age of Mythology, Civilization III, Dead to Rights, Baldur's Gate II, EverQuest and Escape From Monkey Island.

LightWave, LightWave 3D and Video Toaster are registered trademarks of NewTek, Inc.
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All other products or brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

Press contact:

Audrey-Jane Belin
Marketing & Communication Department
mail to: aj@newtek-europe.com

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