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ESCIENT® FIREBALL™ MX SERIES COMBINES
DIGITAL MUSIC AND DVD MANAGEMENT

-- Three New FireBall™ MX Series Media Managers Featuring Digital Music Management, DVD Management and Free Internet Radio in One Source Component --

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, September 14, 2006 - Escient, the pioneer in digital media management, is introducing its next generation of award-winning FireBall™ Media Management products at CEDIA 2006. The company’s three new FireBall MX Series products feature Escient’s unparalleled digital music management features, free Internet Radio, and changer-based DVD and CD management capabilities - all in one home theater component.

In addition to internal hard drives for digital music storage, the MX Series works in conjunction with high capacity DVD/CD changers to provide convenience, security, and efficient storage for physical DVDs and CDs all through an intuitive on-screen user interface. The MX series includes three models designed to provide state-of-the-art media management capabilities to even the largest music and DVD/CD collections. The entry level MX-111 (SRP: $1999) provides a 160GB internal hard drive and support for up to 400 changer-based discs. The mid level MX-531 (SRP: $3999) provides a whopping 500GB hard drive and support for up to 1200 discs. Rounding out the trio is the high-end MX-752 (SRP: $5999) providing a massive 750GB hard drive, support for up to 2000 discs, and two independent video outputs (when used with the FireBall MP-200 Media Player) for watching the same movie or two different movies in two rooms of the home.

Escient is also introducing the new FireBall ZP-1 Zone player (SRP: $499, availability November 2006), providing incremental audio zones for FireBall music servers. The ZP-1 works by providing each room or “zone” in the home, with an independent on-screen TV user interface, full remote control capabilities, and digital audio music streams when networked with an Escient FireBall Music Server (including the free FireBall-PC software running on a Mac or Windows computer). The new MX Series FireBall models along with the new FireBall ZP-1 Zone Player are being showcased in the Escient booth (#228) at CEDIA 2006 in Denver Colorado.

THE ONE WITH MUSIC, MOVIES, INTERNET RADIO AND MORE!
Escient’s MX Series also includes exciting new software features including: a “jukebox” play mode that allows you to queue up song selections while you are listening to another song, AAC audio decoding, new user interface themes, international support for five different languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian), improved web interfaces, a new artist music guide view, a new hierarchical music guide view, and new third-party support modules for Crestron, AMX, RTI, and Philips remote control systems.

Bernie Sepaniak, president of D&M Holdings’ ReplayTV, Escient and ACT divisions noted: “As Escient celebrates our tenth anniversary, we are excited to offer a new line of FireBall media managers and zone players that bring all the great features people have come to expect from Escient, with new performance capabilities and added flexibility at attractive price points for building networked home entertainment systems. As an example our new FireBall MX-series all feature DVD management, allowing a customer who might presently only want music management capabilities to easily add a DVD changer anytime in the future. ”

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 Kawasaki and owns the Denon®, Marantz®, McIntosh® Laboratory, Boston Acoustics®, Snell Acoustics, D&M Professional, Denon DJ, ReplayTV® 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 The Boston Sound, is a leader in premium loudspeakers for home and audio markets. Snell is a super premium speaker brand. The ReplayTV and Escient brands represent award-winning technologies in digital home entertainment. Additional information is available at www.dm-holdings.com.

Denon and Marantz are registered trademarks of D&M Holdings Inc.; McIntosh is a registered trademark of McIntosh Laboratory, Inc.; Boston Acoustics is a registered trademark of Boston Acoustics, Inc.; ReplayTV, Escient, and the Escient logo are registered trademarks and FireBall is a trademark of Digital Networks North America, Inc.

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