Hauppauge announces new Japanese distributor …

             Hauppauge announces new Japanese distributor

                  Bull Will Co., Ltd of Tokyo to be official distributor in Japan




HAUPPAUGE, NY ­ March 28, 2005 - Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAUP), a leading
developer and manufacturer of digital video TV and data broadcast receiver products for
personal computers, announced today that their WinTV-PVR products, used by many PC
manufacturers around the world for their Windows XP Media Center Edition systems, will
now be available to the Japanese retail market through a distribution agreement with Bull Will
Co., Ltd. Of Tokyo.

The first Hauppauge products to be made available under this new agreement are the
WinTV-PVR-150, WinTV-PVR-500 and WinTV-PVR-USB2. These are PC based TV
receivers which have built-in television recorders using high quality hardware MPEG
encoders. They will be available starting in April through authorized retailers throughout
Japan.

The WinTV-PVR-150 and WinTV-PVR-USB2 will be bundled with the end user Hauppauge
WinTV2000 application, which allows watching and recording TV on a PC, plus ULead's DVD
MovieFactory 3.0 for burning WinTV-PVR recorded TV shows onto DVD. The WinTV-PVR-
500, a special dual tuner TV receiver designed especially for Windows XP Media Center
Edition, will include the Microsoft Media Center certified Cyberlink MPEG decoder.

"We are very excited about this new distribution agreement with Bull Will for the Japanese
market" said Ken Plotkin, Chief Executive Officer of Hauppauge Digital, Inc. "Though our
products have been available to OEMs around the world and are used in many Media Center
based PC's, we are looking forward to having our WinTV-PVR products available to
Japanese consumers".
ABOUT HAUPPAUGE DIGITAL

Hauppauge Digital, Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of digital TV and data
broadcast receiver products for personal computers. Through its Hauppauge Computer
Works, Inc. and Hauppauge Digital Europe subsidiaries, the Company designs and develops
digital video boards for TV-in-a-window, digital video editing and video conferencing. The
Company is headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, with administrative offices in New
York, Singapore, Taiwan, Ireland and Luxembourg and sales offices in Germany, London,
Paris, The Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Singapore and California. The Company's
Internet web site can be found at http://www.hauppauge.com.

ABOUT BULL WILL CO., LTD.

Bull Will Co. Ltd is located at 7F, Kiryu Bldg., 2 Chome 21-1, Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshimaku,
Tokyo 170-0013, Japan Tel: 03-5985-6688 Fax: 03-5985-6669 E-mail:ts@bullwill.co.jp

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Hauppauge and WinTV are registered trademarks of Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc. Windows and Windows
XP Media Center Edition are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Other product or service names mentioned herein are
the trademarks of their respective owners.

Company Contact:
George Fey gfey@hauppauge.com
631-434-1600 ext. 301