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For Immediate Release
New IomegaŽ Super DVD Writer Drive Earns "Best of CeBIT America Award"
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Iomega Super DVD Drive Product News and Updates Available By Registering Online
SAN DIEGO,
July 1, 2003 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM),
a global leader in data storage, announced today that
consumers can register online for automatic product
updates and availability of the new Iomega Super DVD
Writer Drive, which received the “Best of CeBIT
America Award” for personal hardware at the CeBIT
America technology trade show held last month in New
York City.
“The Iomega Super DVD Drive
supports all the major DVD and CD formats, which settles
a lot of confusing questions for consumers trying to
figure out which DVD format is right for them,”
said Susan Huberman, vice president of corporate marketing,
Iomega Corporation. “Iomega is honored to receive
the Best of CeBIT America Award and we’re looking
forward to an equally enthusiastic reception when the
Iomega Super DVD Drive becomes available in August.”
Consumers interested in more information
on the Iomega Super DVD Drive can register online at
http://www.iomega.com/dvd for product updates, including
automatic notification of product availability.
Bundled Software
for Complete Solution
The Iomega® Super DVD Drive will ship with a suite
of complementary software, including the award-winning
Iomega Automatic Backup software, Iomega HotBurn®
Pro software for CD creation, 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. For unparalleled ease of
use, Iomega has created a DVD wizard specifically for
the Super DVD Drive. The user selects a task they want
to perform and the DVD wizard suggests the software
and media to use. With seven media formats and six software
applications, the DVD wizard is a great application
for helping the user create DVDs and CDs.
Iomega Super
DVD Drive Pricing and Availability
The Iomega® Super DVD Internal Drive is expected
to ship in the U.S. for availability in August and in
Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia for availability
in September. Suggested retail pricing is $329.95 (U.S.
pricing) at select retail stores and at www.iomega.com.
An external version of the Iomega Super DVD Drive is
expected to ship in the U.S. in September. For more
information about the Iomega Super DVD Drive, please
go to the Web at http://www.iomega.com/dvd.
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, Iomega®
DVD drives 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 products, anticipated product pricing
and availability, expected product performance and specifications,
future applications for the new products 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, Active Disk, iStorage
and HotBurn are either registered trademarks or trademarks
of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. Sonic, MyDVD and CinePlayer are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Sonic Solutions. Adobe and
ActiveShare are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated 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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