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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Revolutionary New Digital Audio Player
Shows its Stuff in 18-City Fall Demo Tour
ROY, Utah,
October 4, 2000 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM),
a global leader in data management solutions, today
announced the launch of the HipZip(tm) Digital Audio
Player Demo Tour, an 18-city road trip to major Eastern
and Western markets highlighting the revolutionary new
HipZip digital audio player for Mac(r) and PC users.
The HipZip Player Demo Tour, which runs until Christmas,
gives consumers a hands-on introduction to the best
portable digital audio player today.
The HipZip(tm) Player Demo Tour rolls
out in customized tour vans that will spend several
days in each of 18 cities, visiting malls, college and
university campuses, sports events, and major consumer
electronics retailers. At each venue, tour team members
will set up display kiosks inviting consumers to try
out the new HipZip digital audio player for themselves.
The kiosks will give consumers a chance to play with
HipZip players, download music to the HipZip player's
PocketZip(tm) disks, and see other products in Iomega's
product lines. Visitors to the kiosks will also be eligible
for on-site prizes and be able to enter a weekly sweepstakes
for a HipZip player, or they may enter on-line at www.iomega.com.
The HipZip(tm) Player Demo Tour begins
on Thursday, October 5, 2000, in Boston and Seattle.
From Seattle, the Western tour travels to Portland,
Sacramento, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San
Diego, and Phoenix, wrapping up for Christmas in Salt
Lake City on December 21st. The Eastern tour starts
in Boston and travels to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, and Atlanta before its
final stop in Orlando on December 20th.
For more information on tour dates
and locations, please see our Web site at www.iomega.com.
The HipZip(tm) player and PocketZip(tm)
media
The Iomega(r) HipZip(tm) digital audio player is compatible
with today's most popular digital audio formats, including
MP3 and Microsoft(r) Windows Media(tm) Format (WMA),
and is software upgradeable to additional audio formats.
It also offers anti-skip playback, a large backlit display,
customizable equalizer settings, fast USB downloads,
and up to 12 hours of continuous operation on its rechargeable
lithium ion battery. Computers also recognize the HipZip
player as an external drive, allowing the HipZip player
to double as a portable storage device for computer
users on the go.
The HipZip(tm) player's 40MB PocketZip(tm)
disks break the price barrier for digital audio storage.
At a cost of about $10 per disk when purchased in a
10-pack, PocketZip disks are the affordable new alternative
to flash memory cards which typically cost $80 or more
for 32MB of storage. PocketZip disks are approximately
one-quarter the size of CD audio discs, are encased
in a metal shell for better durability than a CD, store
more minutes of music than an audio CD using the Microsoft
Windows Media(tm) Format, and are serialized to enable
the digital rights management (DRM) of licensed content.
Owners of the HipZip player can use Windows Media(tm)
Player 7, with Microsoft Windows Media(tm) Rights Manager,
for secure music downloads to the player's PocketZip(tm)
disk media, providing an affordable, portable solution
for digital music e-commerce.
The HipZip(tm) player is available
now at Best Buy stores and at www.iomegadirect.com,
and is shipping to other major retailers nationwide.
About Iomega
Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM) manufactures and markets
the award-winning Zip(, Jaz( and PocketZip( drives and
disks and HipZip(tm) digital audio player, and markets
the Iomega CD-RW drives and discs. Iomega's products
help people to save, share, manage and create important
information such as Internet downloads, audio files,
personal photographs, spreadsheets, and slides, while
protecting that content from viruses and hackers. Used
in homes, businesses, government and educational facilities
and by creative professionals everywhere, Iomega storage
solutions are the enabling technologies preferred by
millions. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA
(888-446-6342), or on the Web at http://www.iomega.com.
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Copyright (c) 2000 Iomega Corporation.
Iomega, Zip, HipZip and PocketZip are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the
United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, Windows,
and Windows Media are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States
and/or other countries. Mac is either a registered trademark
or trademark of Apple Computer, Inc., in the United
States and/or other countries. Certain other product
names, brand names and company names may be trademarks
or designations of their respective owners.
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