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Pleasanton, California, USA, April 6, 2006

Pivot® Pro Software Selected for New ASUS 19-inch Wide-Screen LCD Rotational Display

Portrait Displays, Inc., a global leader in visual enhancement software solutions for computer displays, today announced that ASUSTeK Computer, Inc., has added its proprietary Pivot Pro software to its new wide-screen 19-inch LCD rotational display model. The new ASUS PW191 wide-screen (16:10) 19-inch LCD display will include Pivot Pro software, allowing on-the-fly 90-degree landscape-to-portrait viewing along with the world's broadest compatibility of legacy and current operating systems and graphics chip sets.

Featuring ASUSTeK's ZBD ("0 bright dot") customer guarantee replacement policy for LCD panel quality, the PW191 combines a rotational hinge design with Portrait Displays' Pivot Pro software to greatly enhance productivity. This combination gives users more flexibility as they can type e-mail, surf the web, and run any applications in either portrait or landscape view - increasing the customer's productivity.

ASUSTeK Computer, Inc., is a leading provider of 3C total solutions. Its product portfolio includes notebooks, motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, information appliances, desktop PCs, servers, wireless solutions, mobile phone, and networking devices. With world-class engineering and offices and subsidiaries located in all corners of the world, ASUSTeK provides innovative solutions to consumers, businesses, and OEM/ODM customers, and has won 1706 awards in 2005, with recognition in design excellence from iF Gold Award, while ranks in the top of Business Week InfoTech for the 8th straight year. The company is the perennial leader of the motherboard and graphics card industries and a top 4 maker globally for notebooks.

Portrait Displays, with its world-leading Pivot® Pro, Display Tune®, Liquid View®, and Liquid Surf™ software, has been pioneering display software solutions since 1986. Portrait Displays' software is bundled with monitors from leading display manufacturers throughout the world. Portrait Displays, Inc., is a private corporation with headquarters in Pleasanton, California, USA; representatives in Europe, Taiwan, China, Korea, and a wholly-owned subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan: Portrait Displays K.K..

For more information about Portrait Displays' products, visit www.portrait.com.

Contact Information:
Sales Department
Portrait Displays, Inc.
6663 Owens Drive
Pleasanton, CA 94588 USA
Phone: +1(925)227-2700
Fax: +1(925)227-2705
E-Mail: sales@portrait.com
Web: www.portrait.com and www.portrait.com/jp/