Electric-Spin Announces Golf Launchpad Tour for Game Consoles and Television Set-top...

Electric-Spin Announces Golf Launchpad Tour for Game Consoles and Television
Set-top Boxes
New, low-profile design, wireless remote caddy and enhanced signal processing
provide ultimate gaming experience.

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Electric-Spin, the creators of
the award-winning Golf Launchpad series of golf simulators, today announce the
Golf Launchpad Tour. The new Golf Launchpad Tour, showcased at booth # Sands
72401 all week, allows users to play along with their favorite golfers during
televised tournaments.
Electric-Spin's Golf Launchpad Tour is a unique golf simulation input
device that allows users of all ages to play golf in the convenience of their
home, with their own clubs. Not only is the golf Launchpad Tour available for
use with PC, Mac and PlayStation 2 systems, like the original, but now users
can also tee-off on Sony's PlayStation 3 and television set-top boxes.
Golf Launchpad Tour combines Electric-Spin's ultra realistic golf
simulation technology, with XTVReady(TM) technology from NDS to create the
ultimate virtual golf experience.
XTVReady is a software module embedded within the world's leading DVR
set-top boxes to enable access to third party peripheral devices, such as the
Golf Launchpad Tour, via the USB port on set-top boxes. Until now, golf on a
set-top box has been a limited 2-D experience, but with the Golf Launchpad/XTV
Experience it becomes an immersive, video enhanced realistic golf experience.
"We are very excited to be announcing the latest in virtual golf
technology with the new Golf Launchpad Tour," says Electric-Spin President,
Anees Munshi. "Ultimately, this product will enhance the overall user
experience and change the way golfers and gamers interact with their
televisions."
While watching a televised golf event, consumers will soon be able to use
the Golf Launchpad/XTV(TM) Experience to play and compete, with their own
clubs, on the same course and at the same time as the pros.
"As an avid golfer, I find Golf Launchpad Tour's new design very
appealing," said NDS Vice President of Interactive TV Jesper Knuttson. "Golf
Launchpad Tour combined with what we are doing together with Live Virtual Golf
is going to be very exciting."
Golf Launchpad Tour measures user's swings (clubhead speed, path and
angle) and translates it into information that EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour
software translates on-screen with breathtaking realism and accuracy. Now,
with a processor that's four-times faster than the original, gameplay with the
Golf Launchpad Tour is truly outstanding. Not only is the Tiger Woods PGA Tour
experience enhanced with the Golf Launchpad Tour, but so is the swing
analyzer, with its increased accuracy and 3D shot visualization!
Golf Launchpad Tour will be available on April 30, 2008 through premier
electronics and golf retailers. For more information about this product and to
experience a demonstration, please visit Electric-Spin in the Sands, booth #
72401 at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show.
About Electric-Spin
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Electric-Spin Corporation, the subsidiary of Electric-Spin Ltd. (TSX - V:
ESC) is the worldwide leader in home golf simulators marketed under its Golf
Launchpad brand and carried by premier retailers in over 16 markets worldwide.
Electric-Spin designs, develops and manufactures its golf simulators,
accessories and software at its headquarters in Woodbridge, Ontario, and at
its Asian subsidiary. For media inquiries, please contact Meghan Howard at
Dittoe PR at 317-202-2280 ext 15, or Nadia Alfano at Electric~Spin at
1-866-571-7746 ext. 413. For more information, please visit
www.electricspin.com.
About NDS
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NDS Group plc (NASDAQ: NNDS), a majority owned subsidiary of News
Corporation, supplies open end-to-end digital technology and services to
digital pay-television platform operators and content providers. See
www.nds.com for more information.
Trademarks
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PS(R)2 and PS(R)3 are trademarks of Sony Corporation. This Product is not
designed, manufactured or endorsed by Sony Corporation.
SOURCE Electric-Spin Corporation

PRESS CONTACT: Meghan Howard, Dittoe Public Relations, (317) 202-2280 x.15,
meghan@dittoepr.com