DIC Entertainment Selects SunnComm's MediaMax M4 Music Management Technology for Strawberry Shortcake Premium Offer.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2004 QuietTiger Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). : QTIG), an international marketer of digital content security and enhancement products for the music and entertainment industry, has concluded an agreement with DIC DIC diffuse intravascular coagulation; disseminated intravascular coagulation. DIC abbr. disseminated intravascular coagulation Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) Entertainment (http://www.dicentertainment.com), a preeminent children's entertainment company, to utilize SunnComm's MediaMax M4(TM) copyright protection and content management technologies on the upcoming Strawberry Shortcake
Strawberry Shortcake is a licensed character owned by American Greetings, originally used in greeting cards and expanded to include dolls, posters, and other products. enhanced CD See CD Extra. sampler. The agreement adds a new platform to QuietTiger's expanding portfolio of industries utilizing digital content management, CD enhancement and copyright security. Scheduled for release in Parent's Magazine's June 2004 issue, the all-new Strawberry Shortcake gift-with-purchase enhanced CD sampler marks the first time that the children's entertainment industry has copy-managed an audio release. Redeemable with a purchase of $25 worth of Strawberry Shortcake products, the CD features a Strawberry Shortcake five minute video short, "Growing Better All the Time"; popular music from KOCH Records' (http://www.kochint.com) "Strawberry Jams" audio CD; an interactive game sampler from Riverdeep; with printable coloring pages from Dalmatian Press, including a link to the Strawberry Shortcake Web site. (http://www.dicentertainment.com/dic_shows.html#Strawberry) The Strawberry Shortcake enhanced CD sampler was developed to give children clear, simple messages and lessons about social interaction, while at the same time, encouraging singing and dancing. Since the enormously successful relaunch of the brand in first quarter 2003, Strawberry Shortcake has generated over $210 million at retail across all categories, building it into one of the top-selling children's properties last year. SunnComm's MediaMax, the one reliable and universally playable solution for content copy management and copyright protection, offers owners of the Strawberry Shortcake CD a legal and easy-to-use interactive licensed framework which empowers the consumer to copy and share the content in harmony with the wishes of the copyright owner. The groundbreaking Strawberry Shortcake CD sampler will allow children to burn copies of each of three tracks from the sampler to send a song from the CD to a friend using SunnComm's MusicMail(TM). The bonus content and enhancements are accessible via a multimedia user interface which is added as a special session mastered on the disc and integrated as part of the MediaMax product. "We were excited to open this new and lucrative market segment for the MediaMax solution," said Bill Whitmore, president of QuietTiger, the marketing arm for the MediaMax copy management technology. "The ability to utilize our technology platform within the children's entertainment industry is a significant breakthrough. I believe our organization has staked a claim as an industry leader in content security and enhancement solutions." He added, "It is great when world-class companies like DIC Entertainment and KOCH Records Koch Records, the primary subsidiary of Koch Entertainment LP, is an independent record label in the United States. It is also distributed by the Universal Music Group in Europe and in Asia under the name Koch Universal. recognize and take advantage of the myriad of features found in the MediaMax technology, and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity of working together with them." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Artie Ripp, DIC consultant and music industry pioneer, "Unfortunately, CD piracy is everywhere. I wanted to have a proven and reliable protection solution for our CD release that also plays on all playback systems while helping to stem the 'casual' copying of our copyrights and products. Additionally, I was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. an enhanced entertainment product to provide the consumer with bonus features on their PCs when the CD is used as directed. I firmly believe SunnComm's MediaMax technology can help audio and music copyright owners achieve increased sales while meeting government and consumer user concerns. The Strawberry Shortcake CD sampler allows consumers to use MediaMax's MusicMail to share song files legally from the CD which also presents an additional promotion and consumer information opportunity. We at DIC welcome the addition of SunnComm and QuietTiger to our team and look forward to working with them on future DIC audio releases." ABOUT QUIETTIGER QuietTiger Inc., with its international reach, implements the delivery of digital content security products for the music and entertainment industry. With established long-term contacts throughout the world, QuietTiger understands the challenges surrounding digital content management and protection. Our team of professionals has spent more than 50 years in the music and movie industry. For additional information about the company, its vision, philosophy, partners and customers, contact: Company contact: William H. Whitmore Jr. 602-267-3800 bill@quiettiger.com Investor contact: Aimee Boutcher 973-239-2878 aboutcher@aol.com Media contact: George Medici Medici, Italian family Medici (mĕ`dĭchē, Ital. mā`dēchē), Italian family that directed the destinies of Florence from the 15th cent. until 1737. 646-295-8218 gmedici@att.net ABOUT SUNNCOMM SunnComm Technologies Inc. (OTC:STEH) became the first company to commercially release a content-protected audio CD utilizing an early version of the Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. Data Session Toolkit. It is a leader in digital content enhancement and security technology for optical media with its MediaMax M4 suite of products. SunnComm's music-management technology was commercially released by Music City records in 2001. The album, Charley Pride - A Tribute to Jim Reeves, became America's first copy-protected audio CD. SunnComm's MediaMax M4 suite of Digital Content Enhancement technologies are built using Microsoft (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Windows Media 9 Series, but operates on both Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL AAPL Apple Computer, Inc. (stock symbol) AAPL American Association of Professional Landmen AAPL American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law AAPL Advance Audiovisual Presentation Limited AAPL Advocates for Arkansas Public Libraries ) and Microsoft Windows-based systems (NASDAQ:MSFT). For more detailed information about the company, its vision or philosophy, personnel, partners and customers, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.sunncomm.com, or call the company directly at 602-267-7500. MediaMax, Digital Content Cloaking Technology, M4, DC2, MusicMail/TuneShare and SunnComm are registered and/or trademarks of SunnComm Technologies Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. ABOUT DIC ENTERTAINMENT DIC Entertainment, a leading children's entertainment company, is a full-service studio dedicated to creating, developing, producing, distributing, marketing and merchandising family-based intellectual properties. (http://www.dicentertainment.com) DIC has distinguished itself by building one of the largest libraries of U.S. animation with more than 3,000 half-hours of renowned programming, including Stan Lee's Super 7(TM), Inspector Gadget(TM), Strawberry Shortcake(TM), Knights of the Zodiac(TM), Sabrina(TM), Madeline(TM), Liberty's Kids(TM), Where On Earth Is Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Sandiego?(TM), Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog is a fictional hedgehog character that serves as the mascot of the Japanese video game company Sega. The name is also the title of several entries in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. (TM), Super Mario Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) (TM) and Super Duper Sumos Super Duper Sumos , produced by DiC Entertainment, was created by Kevin O'Donnell; the main plot was for the crimefighting sumo wrestlers to go on an adventure and fight using their buttocks. There were three sumo wrestlers called Booma, Kimo and Mamoo. (TM). In September 2003, DIC launched the DIC Kid's Network, a unique syndicated programming block designed to meet core FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. requirements and the only network for kids that reaches effectively 100% of U.S. households on over 400 stations, airing in every Designated Market Area across the country. As a preeminent supplier of kids' programming worldwide, DIC has developed strategic partnerships with key domestic and international broadcast partners throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia. DIC is headquartered in Burbank, Calif. with international offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Paris, London and Cologne. ABOUT KOCH RECORDS KOCH Records (http://www.kochentertainment.com/index2.htm) is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of KOCH Entertainment, one of the largest and fastest-growing music companies in the United States. (http://www.kochint.com/default.aspx) KOCH'S operations encompass record labels, music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. companies and distribution companies in the United States and Canada. KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independents in both the United States and Canada and its record labels had the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents from 2001-2003. NOTES ABOUT FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Statements contained in this release, which are not historical facts, may be considered "forward-looking statements" under 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. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and the current economic environment. We caution the reader that such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance. Unknown risk, uncertainties as well as other uncontrollable or unknown factors could cause actual results to materially differ from the results, performance or expectations expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. |
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