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Iomega Announces New Iomega® DVD Internal 4x Dual Format Drive
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New Drive Delivers Fast and Easy-to-Use DVD/CD Burning Solution

Media please contact:
Chris Romoser, Iomega Corporation, (858) 795-7148
romoser@iomega.com

Analyst/Investors, please contact:
Barry Zwarenstein, Iomega Corporation, (858) 795-7190

For Immediate Release

New Drive Delivers Fast and Easy-to-Use DVD/CD Burning Solution

SAN DIEGO, June 4, 2003 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage, today entered the writeable DVD market with the new Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive. With 4x2x12x DVD performance and 16x10x40x CD-RW (write/rewrite/read) capabilities, Iomega’s new Dual DVD ATAPI drive lets creative enthusiasts use a single drive to save and share their music, photos, videos and more.

Fast, Efficient, Easy To Use
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive is a complete hardware-software solution that offers compatibility with today’s DVD-based devices. In fact, the DVD+R/+RW standard was designed for compatibility with consumer DVD-video players, so standard DVD players can replay a DVD+RW disc without requiring a time-consuming “finalization” process at the end of a recording session. Digital audio enthusiasts will also appreciate the drive’s 32x audio ripping speeds (DAE) and buffer under run protection for extra reliability.

“The new Iomega Dual DVD drive features recording capability for six optical disc formats, providing broad disc compatibility with the optical drives people use today,” said Sean Burke, vice president of mobile and desktops products for Iomega. “The Iomega Dual DVD drive features high burn speeds and easy-to-use software, showing Iomega’s commitment to serving our customers’ storage needs with competitive features that are easy to use.”

Multiple Recording and Rewrite Capabilities
The Iomega Dual DVD ATAPI drive can read and record DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW formats. In addition to its re-writeable capabilities, the new Iomega Dual DVD ATAPI drive will also read CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs. The drive records up to two hours of high quality DVD video or other data on a 4.7 GB DVD disc, and up to 700 MB of video, music, or image data on a CD disc. With the Dual DVD ATAPI drive and a flatbed scanner, slide scanner, or analog video capture card, users can also transfer old videos and photos to optical DVD or CD formats for safekeeping and archiving.

Additional Software Included
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive comes with software valued at over $179.95, including Sonic MyDVD video editing software, Sonic™ Cineplayer software for the highest quality video playback, MusicMatch™ Jukebox music management software and Adobe® ActiveShare photo management software. Also included is Iomega’s award-winning HotBurn® Pro software, which allows for easy 2-step CD burning, and Iomega’s own Automatic Backup software which makes data backups to DVD or CD hassle-free. Iomega Automatic Backup was recently honored as a PC Magazine Editor's Choice for real-time backup software (June 17, 2003, issue).

Pricing and Availability
The Iomega® Dual DVD ATAPI drive is available in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. Suggested retail pricing is $329.95 (U.S. pricing only) at select retail stores and at www.iomega.com.

About Iomega
Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and share their digital information. Iomega’s award-winning storage products include the popular Zip® 100MB, 250MB and 750MB drives, high-performance Iomega® HDD Portable Hard Drives, Iomega® HDD Desktop Hard Drives, the Iomega® Mini USB Drive, Iomega® external CD-RW drives, the Iomega® DVD+RW Internal Drive, and the Iomega® Floppy USB-Powered Drive. Iomega simplifies data protection and sharing at home and in the workplace with Iomega® Automatic Backup software, Iomega® Sync software, HotBurn® CD-recording software, and Active Disk™ technology. For networks, Iomega® NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 1.4TB. For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access, Iomega offers iStorage™, the secure online storage choice. Iomega also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data recovery services solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure, file corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at www.iomega.com.

NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding development, production and distribution of the Iomega product, anticipated product pricing and availability, expected product performance and specifications, future applications for the new product and all other statements that are not purely historical, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the successful completion of product development and testing, market acceptance of, and demand for, the Iomega product, any difficulties encountered in ramping up production or other manufacturing issues, including component availability and pricing, co-development, production, and distribution issues, product pricing and conformity to specifications, dependence upon third party suppliers, competition, intellectual property rights and other risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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Copyright© 2003 Iomega Corporation. All rights reserved. Iomega, Zip, iStorage, HotBurn and Active Disk are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Sonic and MyDVD are trademarks of Sonic Solutions. Certain other product names, brand names and company names may be trademarks or designations of their respective owners.