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C-3D Digital Signs Warner Bros. for Hotel Movie Network; DDD's Private Television Network Gains Access to Additional First Run Films.


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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000

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), doing business as C-3D Digital Inc., the world's first 3D television network and 3D Internet media company, announced today that its private television network, Hotel Movie Network (HMN HMN Hemmings Motor News ) signed an agreement with Warner Brothers, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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According to the agreement, HMN will gain access to movies still in their theatrical release from Warner Brothers. &uot;Our agreement with Warner Brothers significantly expands our existing movie line-up with high-quality, in-demand first run movies. The recently released hit movie Three Kings is an example of the type of movies we will gain access to,&uot; stated Paul La Barre, Vice President of HMN Operations.

&uot;This agreement comes on the heels of a similar arrangement we made with Twentieth Century Fox (NYSE: FOX). Combined with Warner Bros BROS Brothers
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., our Hotel Movie Network is poised for tremendous growth over the next six months,&uot; commented C-3D Digital Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Michael Heil.

Since C-3D Digital's acquisition of HMN in December of 1998, growth in the division has exceeded management's expectation every quarter in both revenue and rooms served. HMN is currently available in 11,000 rooms across the United States. HMN is positioned to become the world's first in-room network to offer 3D stereoscopic stereoscopic /ster·eo·scop·ic/ (ster?e-o-skop´ik) having the effect of a stereoscope; giving objects a solid or three-dimensional appearance.

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 movies. Content for HMN is provided through movie studio agreements and programming produced by the Company's C-3D Television Network.

C-3D Digital is a leading innovator in the manufacture and development of 3D imagery and virtual reality entertainment for television and the Internet. The Company operates several synergistic divisions, including C-3D Television, the world's first and only broadcast network to offer 24-hour, 7 days a week 3D stereoscopic programming; 3D.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , its Internet subsidiary and home to a forthcoming virtual reality/3-D portal/e-commerce community center on the Web; Strata Software, a leading producer of 3D graphic design software; and the Hotel Movie Network, a private broadcast network focused on the hospitality industry.

The Company's Strata and Internet division combined to form the world's first 3D virtual reality portal. The 3D.COM Virtual Reality Portal(tm) is set to launch in mid-2000 and will feature streaming video over the Internet, real-time online gaming and e-commerce solutions in stereoscopic 3D. For more information, visit www.3d.com.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the &uot;safe harbor&uot; provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. While these statements are made to convey to the public the Company's progress, business opportunities, and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent management's opinion. While management believes such representation to be true and accurate based on the information available to the Company, actual results may differ materially from those described. The Company's operations and business prospects are always subject to risk and uncertainties. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ are set forth in C-3D Digital's periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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