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MusicGiants to Offer High-Definition, 5.1 Digital Music Download this Year

MUSICGIANTS TO OFFER HIGH-DEFINITION, 5.1 DIGITAL MUSIC DOWNLOADS THIS YEAR

LAS VEGAS, NV; Jan. 4, 2006 — MusicGiants, the leader in high-fidelity music downloads, today announced that the company plans to offer 5.1 channel high-definition audio files as part of its MusicGiants Network premium music download service in 2006.

“Listening to music in 5.1 provides exactly the type of rich, robust listening experience that musicians prefer and consumers now expect from their home audio systems,” said Elliot Mazer, long-time producer for Neil Young and other noted artists. Mazer has produced 5.1 remixes of recordings from artists such as Young, Janis Joplin, The Who, Santana, Frank Sinatra and Switchfoot. “The addition of 5.1 content to the MusicGiants Network will be a first in the music industry.”

The 5.1 channel digital platform is a standard for audio surround sound. The rich sound benefits of 5.1 channel digital surround sound are derived from recording audio on five separate tracks: front left, front right, center, rear left, and rear right, with one extra track (the “.1”) for very low bass sounds. This three-dimensional sound quality imitates the real world experience of human hearing, and has become extremely popular for U.S. home audio systems.

“There are an estimated 35 million 5.1 music systems in U.S. homes,” said Scott Bahneman, CEO, MusicGiants. “We believe that combining the highest sound quality music available over the Internet with the exceptional listening experience of 5.1 will provide a significant market opportunity.”

MusicGiants is the first commercial download service offering high-fidelity music files, including the complete digital music libraries of the major music labels, in the Windows Media Audio Lossless format. This format provides the sound quality of the original digital recording, demonstrably superior in playback quality to compressed music from existing download services. Ordinary download services provide music at data rates of 128 to 192 kbps (kilobytes per second), while MusicGiants’ Windows Media Audio Lossless downloads reproduce music at up to 1100 kbps, delivering the true sound quality of the original CD. In addition, MusicGiants uses Windows Media Digital Rights Management (Windows Media DRM) to deliver content. Windows Media DRM is the leading solution for securing digital media, and is supported on the widest range of consumer electronics devices.

MusicGiants intends to make 5.1 tracks available as downloads or preloaded as collections on hard disks. The company will provide additional details, including availability and pricing, when it launches its 5.1 service later this year. The format of the MusicGiants files is comparable to the original DVD-Audio formats, at either 88.2kHZ or 96kHZ sampling rate at 24 bits.

About MusicGiants

MusicGiants is the only High Fidelity Music Download service delivering content from all of the major labels. With up to seven times the sound quality of any other service, MusicGiants is the perfect companion for home audio systems. For more information on MusicGiants visit www.musicgiants.com.

The names of companies mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact: Phillip Bergman
Roher Public Relations
914-238-2200, ext. 302
Cell: 408-242-9464
pbergman@roherpr.com

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