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Fall Focus: On-Demand Digital Entertainment, hosted by industry experts Parks Associates, will be held November 10-12, 2004, at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego. The event will examine the current conditions and future vision for the markets involving digital entertainment content in the networked home. Moderated by Parks analysts, the panel discussions will feature key executives from a variety of industry domains, including broadband services, content aggregation, and hardware development.

The event will kick off with The Leadership Roundtable, Strengthening Links in the Digital Entertainment Value Chain, on November 11. Key topics will include digital rights management and content protection issues, the evolution of specific platforms to accommodate consumer demand, and service design and deployment.

"The roundtable will offer a creative, interactive, and highly enriching environment for both our speakers and attendees," said Tricia Parks, president of Parks Associates. "Parks Associates sees the markets for digital entertainment replete with both opportunities and unresolved issues, so this type of high-level dialogue will be necessary in order to realize these successes." -0- *T Leadership Roundtable Participants -- Robert Acker, Vice President, RealPlayer and Music Services, RealNetworks -- Brett Butler, General Manager, Broadband Cable Business, Texas Instruments -- Kip Compton, Vice President, Video/Media Architecture, Comcast -- Bob Engel, Director of Marketing, HP Digital Entertainment -- David Henry, Senior Vice President, & General Manager Control Devices, Logitech -- Peter Lee, Vice-President, Business Development New Technology, The Walt Disney Company -- Bill Leszinske, Director, Digital Home Marketing and Planning Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation -- Bill Loewenthal, Vice President & General Manager of ReplayTV, D&M Holdings -- Neil Smith, General Manager, Digital Media Services, AOL -- Bill Taylor, Senior Vice President, Broadband, Motorola Keynotes Speakers will be: -- Bob McIntyre, Corporate Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer, Scientific-Atlanta -- Hadi Partovi, General Manager, MSN Entertainment & Digital Media, Microsoft Corporation Other sessions will address the following topics: -- Priming the Pump: Managing Content through the Value Chain -- A New Way of Looking at Media Convergence in the Home -- On-Demand: Video -- On-Demand: Gaming -- On-Demand: Music -- Meeting the Needs for On-Demand Delivery and Consumption -- The Rise of the Media Hub: An Ecosystem Focus Participants on these interactive panels include: -- Robert Acker, Vice President RealPlayer and Music Services, RealNetworks, Inc. -- Christopher Allen, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Planning, MusicMatch -- Ramzi Ammari, VP of Product Development, Universal Electronics -- Tony Barra, Chief Strategy Officer, Internet Home Alliance -- John Barrett, Director of Research, Parks Associates -- John Canning, Technical Evangelist, Applications & Services, Microsoft -- Yuanzhe (Michael) Cai, Senior Analyst, Parks Associates -- Jim Denney, Director, Product Marketing, TiVo Inc -- Patricia Fry, Global Offering Executive, Digital Content Creation and Online Games, IBM -- Mark Gray, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Kasenna -- Jordan Greenhall, Chief Executive Officer, DivXNetworks Inc. -- Michael Harris, President & CEO, Digital 5 Inc. -- Michael McGrail, President & CEO, ICTV -- Nick Mellios, Chief Executive Officer, Yummy Interactive -- Jeff Paine, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, UTStarcom -- Tricia Parks, President, Parks Associates -- Vivek Pathela, Sr. Director, Product Management/Marketing, NETGEAR -- Peter Percosan, Executive Director of Broadband Strategy, Texas Instruments -- Jim Ramo, Chief Executive Officer, Movielink -- Sean Ryan, Vice President, Music Services, RealNetworks, Inc. -- Kurt Scherf, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Parks Associates -- Kathy Schoback, Vice President, Content & Strategy, Infinium Labs -- Jay Schiller, Senior Vice President, Market Development, nCUBE -- Steve Shannon, Founder and Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Akimbo -- Roger Shanafelt, Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, Myrio -- Andrew Steele, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Digital Video Solutions, Terayon Communications Systems -- Scott Stevens, Vice President, Systems Engineering- America, Juniper Networks -- Michael Stroud, Founder and CEO, iHollywood Forum Inc. -- Christina Tancredi, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Advertising & Sponsorship Sales, Music Choice -- Bill Taylor, Senior Vice President, Broadband, Motorola -- Yoav Tzruya, Vice President, Products & Market Strategy, Exent -- Gabe Zichermann, Vice President, Strategy & Communications, Trymedia Systems *T

According to Parks Associates, by the end of 2007, there will be eight million subscribers to on-demand music services, generating over $900 million annually, while the number of broadband games-on-demand households will exceed two million.

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.fallfocus.com, e-mail info@parksassociates.com, or call 972-490-1113. Sponsorship opportunities are available.

About Fall Focus

Fall Focus seminars are targeted events providing a full analysis and evaluation of the "focus" topic. These seminars typically host 175-225 people, and the agenda features industry leaders from the relevant domains in an interactive environment, moderated by Parks Associates' analysts. http://www.fallfocus.com.

About Parks Associates

Parks Associates is a market research and consulting firm focused on all product and service segments that are "digital" or provide connectivity within the home. The company's expertise includes home networks, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, broadband and Internet services, and home systems.

Founded in 1986, Parks Associates creates research capital for companies ranging from Fortune 500 to small start-ups through market reports, multiclient studies, consumer research, workshops, and custom-tailored client solutions. Parks Associates also hosts Fall Focus and co-hosts CONNECTIONS(TM) (in partnership with the Consumer Electronics Association) each year. http://www.parksassociates.com