To: wildbill who wrote (4759 ) 3/25/1998 1:05:00 PM From: PartyTime Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18444
TO: ALL FAIR-MINDED NETZITES FROM: PARTYTIME I have communicated with an employee from NB Digital via email. Incidentally, he noted how unfairly Tom Burgess has been treated, and thus he wishes to remain anonymous. But he is sending me a packet that will include the following (NOTE: I have edited out any remarks pertaining to his identity): (1) DVD-Today CD-ROM - This is a comprehensive discussion of DVD technology that we publish on a standard CD-ROM and sell for $49.95. We use this as a "give-away" marketing material item to prospective customers for our CD-ROM and DVD-ROM development services (5) UAV Entertainment DVD-Video titles. One of our "services" is to publish DVD-Video titles for our clients. Typically this means we convert a "film" to the DVD-Video format for a one-time fee. We have completed about ten projects for UAV Entertainment, and these are some examples of our work. We also provide DVD-Video services to Elite Entertainment, GoodTime Entertainment, and a few others. (1) EARTHLIGHT. This is a 'hybrid" DVD title that works in a standard DVD-Video consumer player and also on DVD-ROM enabled personal computers. For the PC we developed a Windows 95 screen saver that plays high quality video, audio and still images from the DVD disc. On a DVD-Video player it has 80 minutes of video shot from the space shuttle with original Dolby AC-3 5.1 channel surround sound. NBDS has a 50% interest in this title, which means we get to keep half of the net profits from the sales of EARTHLIGHT. (3) Toshiba DVD Demo, Panasonic DVD Demo, and NBDS/Post Group DVD Demo discs. These are all DVD demonstration discs that we got paid to develop. The Toshiba disc is used by the Toshiba sales force to help sell their Tecra 750DVD portable computer. The Panasonic Demo disc is used by their sales force to help sell the Panasonic CF-63 portable computer system. The third demonstration disc was done to help The Post Group, a large LA based Video Post Production firm offer DVD services to their clients. (Misc) I have included some of our standard printed marketing materials. We really dont have much in the way of printed materials since most of our "services" involve publishing content on either CD-ROM or DVD. We ususally just give out copies of our work in the CD or DVD format. If you have not figured it out yet, we are very much on the "bleading edge" of technology. In the DVD services business we have completed more projects than all but two other companies (Warner and Universal). We have an outstanding reputation and a good backlog of work. DVD is just starting to come into it's own and we expect to have some good growth rates in our DVD services over the next several years. We have been working on DVD related projects for more than two years now, which has required us to invest a lot of time and money to get to where we are today - one of the leading DVD service bureaus and publishers in the USA. I encourage you to do some independent research on DVD products and services. You will find that it is a new technology with virtually unlimited growth potential over the next 5 years. 1998 will be the year that DVD becomes a household word in the US, and 1999 will be the year where DVD product have a significant installed base in the US. Here is some additional information that I can share with you, although please do not attribute it to me on the SI boards. (1) A big 6 firm is in the middle of the audit of the 1997 results of Zulu-tek. The audit is on track to be completed within the 45 day period required by the ESVS/Zulu agreement. I believe Price Waterhouse is the firm doing the audit, but I am not involved in this since they are looking at Zulu's books, not the ESVS books. (2) I have met Pat Hayton, but I really do not know that much about him. Essentially he is the "deal maker" for Zulu and some large private investors who own Zulu stock. To the best of my knowledge he does not own Zulu stock personally, and he is not an officer or director of Zulu. (3) Zulu and ESVS have retained Maples & Associates as their PR firm. I have worked with Maples in the past and I think they are an excellent PR firm that stays away from "sensational" PR and just sticks to issuing a PR when the company has something important or newsworthy to say. I suspect that there will be fewer press releases coming out of Zulu in the future, but that these releases will have real substantitive things to say. If you have any more questions related to NB Digital Solutions after you get a chance to look at our marketing materials just drop me a note or give me a call.