Baby's First Steps -- Now at a Computer Near You; Adaptec's VideOh! Edits Home Flicks, Moves Them to CDs.

MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1998--Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADPT) today announced VideOh!, a video capture package that easily and inexpensively edits home movies and videos and turns them into CDs.

VideOh! comes bundled with all required cables and software (including best-selling Easy CD Creator Deluxe), and costs less than $300. All users need to capture video, edit it, and save it to a CD is the VideOh! package, an appropriately configured PC, and a CD-R drive.

VideOh! includes a palm-sized device that snaps on to a computer's parallel port, compresses incoming video from all standard camcorders, TVs and VCRs including both composite and S-Video, and converts it into high resolution TV-quality MPEG-1 video. Users can add titles, glue clips together, and even send video E-Mail and create multimedia postcards. Easy CD Creator Deluxe then takes the file and puts it on a CD that can be read on any Windows CD-ROM drive.

"VideOh! brings back the days when Dad would tape 8 mm clips together, stringing family holidays into a single film," said Dave Ulmer, general manager of Adaptec's Software Products Group. "The difference? Now families can edit and store all those video tapes of baby's first steps or their wedding pictures and vacations in digital format that will never age. Our CD-Recordable software customers have been clamoring for an easy-to-use, high-quality solution to capture and edit video without all the complexity and cost of expensive video capture boards. This is it."

VideOh! is also ideal for professional use. Sales professionals can share training videos, real estate brokers can provide video walkthroughs on CD, and Web publishers can use VideOh! to capture high resolution video clips and stills to send or view across the net. Adaptec's VideOh! will be available in October at computer retailers and electronics stores nationwide for an estimated street price of $299. More detailed product information can be found at http://cdr.adaptec.com. About Adaptec

Adaptec provides bandwidth management technologies for organizations building the global information infrastructure. Its high performance I/O, connectivity, and network products are incorporated into the systems and products of major computer and peripheral manufacturers. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, Adaptec (Nasdaq:ADPT) employs people worldwide in design, manufacturing, sales, service and distribution. Adaptec's home page is http://www.adaptec.com.