Medea Corp. Offers Up to $400 Rebate on Fail-Safe VideoRaid Storage when Purchased with CineWave for OS X Jaguar.

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CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2003

Medea Corp., a leading storage solutions provider to the digital content creation (DCC) and Internet streaming media markets, has announced a rebate program for its VideoRaid RTR and VideoRaid RTRX disk arrays when purchased in conjunction with Pinnacle's CineWave Classic RT, RT Pro or HD editing solutions for Mac OS X Jaguar.

For a limited time, customers who purchase fail-safe VideoRaid RTR/RTRX storage with a qualifying CineWave product will receive up to $400 cash back from Medea. For more details on this rebate and to download a rebate coupon, visit: www.medea.com/enduser/RTR-Jan/RebateForm.cfm.

"This incentive program offers further value to users who select a fail-safe Medea VideoRaid storage solution and a Pinnacle CineWave NLE system," stated Roger Mabon, vice president of Channel Marketing at Medea.

"VideoRaid RTR/RTRX disk arrays support all flavors of the now OS X compliant CineWave system. Furthermore, unlike unprotected JBOD storage, RTR/RTRX arrays provide peace of mind by protecting the content on the array in the event of a disk drive failure."

About VideoRaid RTR/RTRX

VideoRaid RTR/RTRX disk arrays are designed to support professional animation, compositing, special effects and non-linear video editing workstations. VideoRaid RTR/RTRX features a single or dual-channel, Ultra160 SCSI interface and field replaceable disk drive modules, power supplies and RAID controllers with Medea's proprietary Multi-Stream Technology(TM) (MST).

In addition to offering industry-leading performance, VideoRaid RTR/RTRX provides fail-safe operation. In the unlikely event of a disk drive failure, VideoRaid RTR/RTRX will continue to operate with no loss of data and at full performance. This enables work in progress to be completed without requiring immediate drive replacement.

Upon replacing a bad drive, the system will automatically rebuild and resume protecting the content stored on the array. VideoRaid RTR/RTRX supports both SD and HD applications, is scalable to multi-terabyte solutions and priced to compete with unprotected storage systems.

About Medea Corp.

Medea, with headquarters in Calabasas, designs and manufactures high-performance, low-cost storage subsystems optimized for digital content creation and Internet streaming media applications. Corporate headquarters are located at 26707 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, Calif. 91302; telephone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; Internet: www.medea.com.

About Pinnacle Systems Inc.

Pinnacle Systems provides cutting-edge digital video creation, storage, streaming and viewing solutions for broadcasters, video professionals and consumers. Pinnacle Systems solutions help enable the creation, management and distribution of video via cable, satellite, video-on-demand (VOD), digital video disks (DVDs) and the Internet, along with consumer editing products for home movie making and DVD creation.

The company has won eight Emmy Awards for its technical innovations for broadcast products and carries its commitment throughout all of its product lines. Pinnacle Systems may be reached at 650/526-1600 or at www.pinnaclesys.com.