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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.
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