News release

Fantastic and HP to Offer Broadband Content Delivery Solutions

Zug, Switzerland and Palo Alto, USA - February 26, 2001

The Fantastic Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP) today announced a reseller agreement that will allow them to accelerate the adoption of broadband technology globally. Under the agreement, HP will be able to offer Fantastic software for content delivery as part of its overall broadband service offering to network and telecommunication companies.

HP will be able to offer Fantastic's Channel Editorial Center™ and Channel Management Center™ software together with HP servers, PCs, consulting services and support. The initial offerings will be tailored to the needs of network service providers and enterprises seeking to offer broadband services to companies and content providers.

"We are proud that HP has selected Fantastic's technology," said Fantastic Chairman and CEO Reto Braun. "This relationship with HP is an important step for Fantastic as it significantly extends our ability to deliver solutions to customers."

"As a result of our alliance with Fantastic, we are adding a proven data broadcasting platform to our offering," said Nigel Ball, vice president and general manager, HP E-Services Partner Division. "We look forward to working with Fantastic to make this extension of our offering a success."

Fantastic and HP also are collaborating on development activities to enhance Fantastic's broadband distribution platforms for Content Providers and Network Operators on HP-UX for increased scalability and reliability in high availability system configurations.

Hewlett-Packard Company (Palo Alto, Calif.) -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services -- is focused on making technology and its benefits accessible to individuals and businesses through simple appliances, useful e?services and an Internet infrastructure that's always on.

HP had total revenue from continuing operations of $48.8 billion in its 2000 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

The Fantastic Corporation (Zug, Switzerland) is the leading provider of software solutions for data broadcasting. This is an emerging communications technology which combines point-to-multipoint digital broadcasting with point-to-point Internet connectivity, in order to deliver rich interactive media content to PCs, digital set-top boxes or handheld devices (including 3G mobile phones) over any broadband IP network.

By merging the inherent bandwidth and speed benefits of broadcasting technologies with the interactivity of the Internet, data broadcast provides superior content distribution and interaction in an increasingly IP-centric world. Fantastic's end-to-end software supports the rapid growth of the "data broadcast" industry.

Fantastic is a public company, quoted on the Frankfurt Stock exchange using the symbol: FAN Further information on http://www.fantastic.com.

The Fantastic Corporation is a registered trademark. Channel Management Center™ (CMC), Channel Editorial Center™ (CEC) and MediaSurfer™ are trademarks of The Fantastic Corporation.

HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32? and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products.

UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Group.