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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Bob Griffin, Griffin Public Relations & Marketing
(212) 481-3456
Bgriffin@griffinpr.com
IMAGINON INKS AGREEMENTS FOR WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF ITS
ImOn.comTV™ INTERACTIVE INTERNET "TELEVISION STATION IN
A BOX"
ImOn.comTV™
OEM system integration agreement with DarimVision Co. Ltd.
and distribution agreement with TransTec BV follow success
of trade show roll out at the National Association of Broadcasters
(NAB) and International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) conventions.
SAN CARLOS, CALIFORNIA, October 6, 2000 -- Following
on the successful market introduction of its ImOn.comTV™ interactive
turnkey Internet "television station in a box" at both the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and International
Broadcasters Conference (IBC) conventions, ImaginOn, Inc.
(NASDAQ: IMON) (www.imaginon.com) today announced that it
has entered into two significant non-exclusive agreements
that will provide for worldwide distribution of its ImOn.comTV™
product line.
The completion
of these two new agreements comes on the heels of last week's
announcement that the company has signed a non-binding Letter
of Intent with Resonance Ltd. for a multi-stage $12-million
round of equity funding that it expects to close within
120-days. "ImaginOn continues to focus on building a worldwide
sales infrastructure that can expertly present and demonstrate
the ImOn.comTV™ Internet television standard to target customers,"
Schwartz said today. "As more and more geographic regions
deploy high bandwidth Internet access, the true benefits
of the ImOn.comTV™ solution are becoming compelling to a
broad range of content owners who are now in the position
of being able to launch their own Internet television station
for training, entertainment, education, direct marketing
and publishing."
Indeed,
the emergence of this new market is at the heart of the
agreement announced today between ImaginOn and Darim Vision
Co. Ltd. (www.darim.com). Darim is a leading developer,
manufacturer, and marketer of MPEG encoder, MPEG streaming,
video surveillance, and video production systems and products.
Founded in Taejon, the Republic of Korea, in 1991, Darim
now operates company-owned regional sales and marketing
offices in the United States (Pleasanton, California), Australia,
Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and maintains dealer
relationships throughout Africa and the Middle East. Under
the terms of the agreement announced today, Darim will now
incorporate ImOn.comTV™ solutions as well as ImaginOn-owned
core technology into the video servers Darim manufactures
and markets. "We expect to play an important role in Darim's
plans to bring interactive Internet television to its customers
worldwide," Schwartz said today.
In order
to provide additional representation in the Benelux countries
of Western Europe, ImaginOn today announced it has entered
into a distribution deal with TransTec BV (www.transtec.nl).
Founded in 1961, TransTec BV is headquartered in Rotterdam,
the Netherlands and is one of the region's leading distributors
of turnkey Internet streaming, professional video, professional
audio, and home theater system solutions for corporations,
broadcasters, post production facilities, recording studios
and theaters. The company represents some of the world's
leading names in technology, including Dolby, DK Audio,
Media 100, KEF Monitors, Pixel Tools, Sonic Solutions, and
Sonic Studios. As part of its non-exclusive distribution
agreement with ImaginOn, TransTec will now actively sell
the ImOn.comTV™ server-based Internet television system
as part of its Internet streaming products group.
ImaginOn,
Inc. is an information technology company focused on developing
and marketing video servers and software to deliver interactive
TV on the Internet and intranets. ImOn.comTV™, ImaginOn's
lead product, is a turnkey package that enables any Web
site to present an interactive television console within
a standard browser window on any computer that has a high
bandwidth network connection. The company's objective is
to sell interactive Internet TV video servers and software
to Web developers and businesses to communicate, entertain,
inform, educate or promote e-commerce on the Internet and
intranets.
ImOn.comTV is a trademark of ImaginOn
and is protected under U.S. Patents.
Except
for the historical information presented herein, the matters
set forth in this press release are forward-looking statements
within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provision of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or by
the Securities and Exchange Commission in its rules, regulations,
and releases. These forward-looking statements are subject
to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results
to differ materially. These risks include the ability of
ImaginOn to reach definitive agreements with respect to
and close the proposed offering discussed in this release,
acceptance of ImaginOn software by developers and users,
the successful development of competitive software to ImaginOn's,
competitive pricing pressures for ImaginOn software and
services, and the availability of financing to complete
management's plans and objectives. In addition, other risks
are detailed in the Company's periodic reports and in its
Form S-1 registration statement declared effective by the
Securities and Exchange Commission on May 11, 2000. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof.
The Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update
these forward-looking statements.
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