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NPDT Working With SASCO Electric, PETCO Park and the MLB San Diego Padres Baseball Organization to Optimize Fan Experience 

TechVentures Founder, Roy Koo, to Become NPDT Shareholder, Board Advisor and Partner as NPDT Plans to Market LG Digital Signage Solutions Nationwide 

NEWPORT BEACH, CA--(Marketwire - 06/20/11) - Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTC.BB:NPDT - News) (OTCQB: NPDT) announced today a strategic business agreement with TechVentures Capital Investment Corp and its principal, Roy Koo. NPDT also has become a reseller for LG Electronics (LG) Commercial Display products in the United States.

In the past, SASCO has worked on similar projects at both Angel Stadium and Dodger Stadium, as well as major projects at Los Angeles International Airport, the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, and The Getty. They are well respected in the industry and definitely a key partner to helping NDT take a bite out of the digital signage market. Relationships like this will be what drives NDT to success. 

Over the last few weeks, NDT's Sr. Managing Director, Richard Tanimoto has been working closely with SASCO to install a mobile, LED digital signage showroom at SASCO headquarters. The showroom will be available for NDT management to showcase live operating digital signage solutions to perspective clients. At the same time, the displays will be mobile for SASCO to take to their respective clients as well as NDT's. This is a great opportunity for customers to not only see the leading edge solutions NDT has to offer, but also become familiar with one of the premier electrical contractors in the country. The NDT/SASCO combo is a great opportunity to cultivate and expand new business. 

Vertical real estate is the future of public and retail advertising and static sign killer. 

What is a static sign? At a baseball stadium, a static sign is a billboard in the outfield terrace with a brand logo, such as an auto manufacturer, beverage company, or restaurant, etc. Logos are not changed until after the season, or remain for years, thus being static, non-moving.

Meet Newport Digital.  

NDT proposed to replace nearly 90% of Petco Park's static signs and upgrading existing scoreboards, creating a "digital stadium." The fan experience will be second to none, and there will be a ton of advertising real estate. The door has opened for countless brands to be seen before massive audiences on a nightly basis.

Sporting arenas and stadiums are prime locations for this revenue builder because there are athletic events, concerts, and conventions all year round. 

There are elements to the Petco Park job which will be groundbreaking and exclusive to the Padres. This is just one step forward for NDT as a viable LED digital signage provider. There will be many more steps forward as Newport Digital begins the journey to become a household name.  

Newport Digital Technologies Announces Appointment by San Diego Padres to Audit and Recommend Digital Signage and Audio Solutions at Petco Park

Company to Work With SASCO Electric to Optimize Fan Experience

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.— March 3, 2011-Newport Digital Technologies. Inc.  (OTCBB: NPDT). announced today that they, along with SASCO Electric, have been appointed by the San Diego Padres baseball club to do a full analysis and assessment of all audio and digital signage opportunities through Petco Park and to make recommendations to the Padres that will create an enhanced fan experience in one of Major League Baseball's premier stadiums.

After the thorough assessment and study of the digital signage and audio opportunities, NDT and SASCO will, over the next few seasons, coordinate the installation of the recommended solutions to promote the highest possible fan experience throughout the stadium.

SASCO Electric is one of the largest privately held electrical contacting companies in the United States.        SASCO has previously completed similar design build projects for the Los Angeles Angels' Anaheim Stadium and for Dodger Stadium.

Mike Lutton, Vice Chairman of Newport Digital said, "We are extremely excited and pleased to be working with the San Diego Padres organization and with SASCO Electric on this project. We plan to provide Petco Park with the best solutions to generate the highest quality video, audio and digital signage experience for the fans and for their advertising partners."

"The Padres organization is committed to creating an unsurpassed fan experience at Petco Park," stated Padres Vice President of Facilities Mark Gugliamo, "We are also committed to keeping Petco at the cutting edge of visual and audio technology and we are confident that SASCO and Newport Digital can deliver and implement the quality solutions our fans are looking for."

Newport Digital Technologies. Inc.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. is a technology solution driven company focused on the fast growing digital signage & LED lighting market. NPDT develops and delivers these technology solutions through strategic collaborations with global partners in Taiwan and China as well as with U.S. installation partners and has the ability to develop and install virtually any digital signage or LED lighting solution.

Safe Harbor: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to NPDT and its business. Statements that are not historical facts are identified as "forward-looking statements." The words "estimate," "project," "intend," "expect," "believe," "plan," and similar expressions, particularly when used in the "future tense," are intended to identify forward- looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release. Information on potential risk factors that could affect the Company's business plans and financial results can be found in the

Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. has its headquarters located in Newport Beach, California, with a branch office in Australia. If you would like more information about this press release, please contact Donald Danks at +1.949.230.8323 or email at ddanks@newportdt.com.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. 620 Newport Center Drive Newport Beach, CA 92660 (800) 671-9582

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NEWPORT BEACH, CA--(Marketwire – [Publish Date]) - Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (OTC.BB: NPDT - News) announced today that it will conduct a shareholder conference on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 1:30 PM PST to provide shareholders an update on progress the company has made in executing is business plan and to provide an outlook for 2011.  Recently appointed NPDT CEO, Don Danks; President, Weiling Tsao and Senior managing Director Richard Tanimoto will host the call.   The call in number for the conference call is 877-311-2008 and the pass code is 926910.

The Company will provide prepared remarks and then open up the call for a live question and answer session.

Said Mr. Danks, “NPDT has worked hard the past year to introduce RFID and Digital Signage solutions into the market.  Because we are still pre-revenue, the progress we have made to date is not reflected in our financial results.  However, on this call we will strive to give shareholders a better understanding of our progress, our strategy and recent business developments.  I understand that shareholders are anxious to understand NPDT’s future.  We are faced with the challenge of selling sophisticated and complex solutions with a long sales cycle.  As a start up, our biggest challenge has been overcoming the lack of a track record.  As we have pointed our many times, what we do have is state of the art technology with minimal R&D risk; a low fixed cost structure and a sales pipeline with excellent prospects.  We are focused on generating our first sales, developing a proof of concept for our model, and leveraging early successes into long-term opportunities.  We look forward to updating everyone on the call.”

About Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. 

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. (NPDT) is a technology solutions driven company organized to focus on serving five of the fastest-emerging businesses in the technology space -- RFID (radio-frequency identification), WiMax, eLearning, and LED Digital Signage and LED Lighting solutions. NPDT develops and delivers these technology solutions through strategic collaborations with global partners, including Taiwan Industry and Taiwan's premier technology R&D incubators -- the Institute for Information Industry (III) and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). NPDT will customize these technology solutions and market them through Fortune 1000 channel partners and systems integrators on a worldwide basis.

Safe Harbor: This press release contains certain forward-looking statements with respect to NPDT and its business. Statements that are not historical facts are identified as “forward-looking statements”.  The words “estimate”, “project”, “intend”, “expect”, “believe”, “plan”, and similar expressions, particularly when used in the “future tense”, are intended to identify forward-looking statements.  Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release.  Information on potential risk factors that could affect the NDPT's business plans and financial results can be found in NPDT's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NPDT assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events.

Newport Digital Technologies, Inc. has its headquarters located in Newport Beach, California, and branch offices in Taiwan, Australia and Japan.

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I was asked via a request on twitter to give some thoughts concerning this article: The Signs, They Are a-Changing

First of all, great title with the Dylan play-on-words.  The signs really are a-Changing - pervadingour every panorama by the dozens, it feels.

Anyway, I really appreciate the way that your article skeptically examined the potential superfluity of digital signage implementation to a college campus, one which appears to currently provide an adequate dynamic conduit of news and means of wayfinding.  It was poignantly noted that the college of subject possessed a variety of campus newspapers, newsletters, class bulletins as well as several other means of conveyance.  So, why this addendum of pricey signage?  You mentioned it could connect the gap between sources.   Prospectively, the proper placement of these digital signs with a strategic dispatching of wayfinding and event information could promote a much more thorough communication to students, at what cost? Environmentally, energy profusion does pose some conflict here.  Even if the production of paper based news begins to recede, at what rate and at what ratio to the new expense of energy from the digital signs.  Obviously, to measure this ratio would be quite a project.  But we have to appreciate the lapse in transition from paper to digital and really understand what what generally fixed portion of paper digital is replacing paper.  So from an energy conservation / environmental standpoint, one must do a heap of due diligence to gain some sort of exactitude.  Consider, though, that many signs are beginning to integrate LCD to emit the light for the sign, which  conserves considerable energy.  

Ultimately, digital signage is expensive. So, unless there has been thorough survey, speculation and planning on exactly how and where to implement these displays, the whole thing could be atremendous financial excess.  Much like your picture frame analogy.

 Lastly,  I must mention, that the digital signage market is indeed growing rapidly, increasing by an average of 20% a year.  I see signs emerging in the most unexpected places these days, the numbers seem to be corroborated.  

I really don't suspect that digital signs will completely replace all other forms of wayfinding and news dispatching, (just as music electronic automation innovation will most likely never replace the demand for live music) but I definitely foresee a drastic superseding of digital over paper, and other means of delivery,  in the years to come.  Thanks for deliberating your opinion on the matter.  It will be interesting to see what happens! 

I'm talking about strategic and artistic digital signage implementation. Advertisers are on a constant mission to find the perfect means of delivering content without being intrusive to the customer.  We all know what beleaguering advertisements feel like when shopping with fixed intention for an item: It’s unwanted noise.  You're there to get what you're after without the solicitation from a screen and or speaker.  Fair enough, right?  Well, what if we became creative and delivered an artistic incentive through these screens.  What if we came up with a digital signage concoction that could be appreciated as a work of art by passing shoppers, and in a way sort of earn, the right to host an advertisement. 

This is an ideal that NPDT holds to be an intrinsic basis for the optimum viewer experience.  Take an example with our Digital See-Through Display.  To start with, this display has a brilliant transparent image, which is an exciting variance from an average digital sign.  Now, the advantage here is that we can have something of eye-candy magic going on behind the See-Through Display, like a convivial scheme of colors or an appropriate design for the season, while the display is dispatching given content to support the brand.  This way you have a two-fold departure from an average screen that is simply emitting content for inattentive consumption.  

Let us look at another creative way to optimize the use of a digital display.  Imagine a non-digital or static sign heading the entrance to or furnishing the interior of a major retail store.  Typically all you will see is the brand.  What we can do with a dynamic digital display is transitionally project interesting variations of the brand and, for the meat and potatoes, schedule something like promotions or seasonal content to fulfill the marketing side of the equation. 

 Now, it is absolutely of great import that an aesthetic foundation of a digital advertisement be compelling, but above all, the content must be cogent, purposeful and must jive with the themes we have expressed above.  Essentially, it is up to the content providers to work with retailers and advertisers to measure what it is shoppers most want to see and hear, but as the providers of the physical digital signage ware, we love to conceive of how the digital experience can best be executed as a whole process; from manufacturing to viewing in store.  

There is a whole world of possibility within the digital signage realm.  So, this holiday season, keen your vision to the abundance of digital signage, which is spreading like wild fire in and out of stores around the world. Take a moment to conceive of a unique display creation of your own. See what inventive additions you can conceive of.  NPDT is looking forward to the opportunities to merge efforts with the string of the digital signage constituents and to contribute to the creation of a fanfare experience for the holiday masses and beyond.   

We are very pleased and excited to see our first product live online. This is a huge step for Newport Digital Technologies and the world of RFID. Give us your comments and thoughts!