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ESCIENT® BEGINS SHIPPING ITS FIREBALL™ MP-150 STREAMING DIGITAL MUSIC PLAYER

-- Provides FireBall Digital Audio Experience to Every Room in the Home --

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, March 25, 2005 – Escient, a world leader in advanced digital home entertainment solutions, today announced it has begun shipping the recently introduced Escient FireBall MP-150 Streaming Digital Music Player, which provides true CD-quality digital audio streaming and independent graphical user interface to any room in the house. The advanced MP3/FLAC player connects directly to any Escient FireBall entertainment management product via a LAN or WiFi network and allows distribution of music in multiple rooms (zones) around the home for up to five concurrent users (through four connected MP-150s), each with an independent graphical user interface.

A Breakthrough in Multi-Room, Multi-User Audio Entertainment
Designed as the ultimate companion product to Escient’s popular FireBall music managers as well as the new DVDM-300 Media Management system, the MP-150 is a breakthrough in multi-room, multi-user audio entertainment. Using the same award-winning graphical interface as Escient’s other FireBall products, it lets users manage, browse, and play entire music collections from any room in the home. Here’s how it works: Once the MP-150 is connected to an audio system, it simply plugs into an existing local area network (LAN) network, discovers the central FireBall server and offers immediate access to all digital music content from the FireBall server. Users can browse, select and play music files, access Internet Radio stations, create custom playlists and genres and more. The MP-150 can also be controlled by Escient’s EWP-2000 wireless web pad. The EWP-2000 is a full color wireless touch panel remote control, allowing users to control the FireBall from anywhere in the home using a standard 802.11b WiFi wireless network.

“Escient products are all designed to offer the easiest and most elegant solutions for enjoying multi-room home entertainment,” noted Bernie Sepaniak, president of Rio, ReplayTV, Escient and ACT. “The MP-150 takes the concept of multi-room audio to a new level of utility, flexibility and enjoyment, with the best, most intuitive user interface and the most advanced multi-user features in the industry. It’s an ideal solution for custom installers who want to offer their customers more system functionality for their home entertainment networks.”

The Escient Fireball MP-150 is currently available for a suggested retail price of $999.

About Escient
Escient is a division of D&M Holdings U.S., Inc., and is the pioneering leader in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, sales, distribution and support of a groundbreaking category of audio/video products that meld the power of the Internet seamlessly with intuitive home-entertainment devices. Escient’s products and services are designed to enhance the entertainment experience by providing previously unheard-of ways to access music, movies and related content throughout the home. The company possesses a deep portfolio of designs for new products including media servers, DVD systems, remote players and networking and streaming devices, that are brought to market under the Escient brand through a channel of over 800 locations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Mexico, and in partnership with other leading global consumer electronics brands.

About D&M Holdings Inc.
D&M Holdings Inc. (TSE II: 6735) is based in Tokyo and owns the Denon, Marantz, McIntosh Laboratory, Boston Acoustics, Snell, D&M Professional, ReplayTV®, Rio® and Escient® brands. Denon, Marantz, McIntosh and D&M Professional are global industry leaders in the specialist home theater, audio/video consumer electronics or professional audio markets, with a strong and long-standing heritage of manufacturing and marketing high-performance audio and video components. Boston Acoustics, with its signature Boston Sound,™ is a leader in premium loudspeakers for home and audio markets. Snell is a super premium speaker brand. The ReplayTV, Rio and Escient brands represent award-winning technologies in digital home entertainment. Additional information is available at www.dm-holdings.com.

DISCLAIMER
Statements in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may include forward looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of the company. We wish to caution you that such statements are just predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. Forward looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties surrounding competitive and industry conditions, market acceptance for the company's products, risks of litigation, technological changes, developing industry standards and other factors related to the company's businesses.

Escient and the Escient logo are registered trademarks and FireBall is a trademark of Digital Networks North America, Inc.

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