Hot New Atlanta Dot.Com Has The Web-Solution For Any Home Theatre

ZapMedia.com, the dynamic new Atlanta, Georgia - based Internet Webcasting company unveiled the ZapStationÆ to much acclaim from the music, film and Internet industries at CES 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada.What Is The ZapStation?The ZapStation is a revolutionary home entertainment system with full connectivity to the Internet via ZapMedia.com's proprietary portal site, ZapCentral, which enables anyone wishing to take full advantage of broadband, to access the exciting world of digital audio-visual media without a PC. The ZapStation offers the ability to create and play customized digital music and digital video for enjoyment on an existing home TV and stereo system. The ZapStation will also allow for the transfer of these entertainment media assets to target consumer devices including MP3 players, car players, PDAs and PCs. This will give remote access to customized music playlists, Internet radio as well as full web surfing and email capabilities - either at home, or on the go.With 100 million broadband connections by the end of 2001, this exciting disruptive technology will set the tone of the entertainment industry for the new Millenium - radically changing the rules for how consumers will behave regarding the ownership and management of their audio and video assets.Ken Lipscomb, CEO of ZapMedia.com defines the flexibility of the consumer experience offered by the ZapStation: ""With a hand-held remote you will be able to search the Internet for your favorite CDs and buy-online through the TV, listen to sample clips of music before purchasing and organize all your music as sets as digitally stored MP3s for instant recall and playback. You can enjoy a DVD player 'on steroids' while accessing an Internet-connected movie database, or creating your own favorite selection and storing it for easy access on the ZapStation. What about Internet Radio? The ZapStation allows you to listen to Internet radio stations from around the world with the high fidelity that your stereo delivers. With broadband speed and this technology, Webcasting becomes a home entertainment reality. For the first time, the ZapStation allows for the acquisition of music and video from the Internet without a PC. As the broadband pipe gets bigger, home users will have access to an avalanche of on-demand media content.""Exciting ZapStation Features- Offers an MP3 Jukebox with full database - Storage for up to 7000 MP3 songs - Plays streaming or downloaded video - Stores 14 hours of digital video - Plays Flash animations - Downloads multimedia files from Internet via broadband or 56 Kbps - Stores music and video files for retrieval and playback - Offers an intuitive TV GUI - Offers standard CD controls - Play/Scan/Pause/Search/Record - Records MP3 music to hard disc from internal CD/DVD player - Offers Playlist creation for quick customized categorization and retrieval - Home network savvy - transfers files from the home PC or Mac Downloads music to portable units via parallel and USB connectors - Has PCMCIA slots for copying music to portable media - Offers core database storage for metadata associated with music and video - Downloads music to portable units via parallel and USB connectors - Has PCMCIA slots for copying music to portable media - Offers core database storage for metadata associated with music and video - Offers Wireless keyboard support - Offers a hand-held remote via IRA - Has Picture-in-Picture viewing - Sends & receives e-mail and has Web browsing capability - Offers a personalized GUI upon log-on to ZapCentral.com - Portal Offers Internet software upgrades via ZapCentral - Portal Offers CDDB Auto content connect for CD information download - Offers Internet Radio channels - Offers secure copyright protection for all digital titlesFor more information contact, Genevieve Bos, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, 404 875 8550 ext. 106, gbos@zapmedia.com, or Marc Winn, Vice President, Business Development, 404 875 8550 ext. 107, marc.winn@zapmedia.com, 404 875 3240 fax or visit the Web site at www.zapmedia.com.