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To: Dave Gore who wrote (8525)	4/19/1998 8:00:00 PM
From: Starduster	Respond to of 34592

Dave, This is on the HDIE thread, for those whom already have vested interest. Conference Call WEDNESDAY 11 am. Earnings report due before market opens Wednesday. Sandie To: +David Furstenberg (129 ) From: +Jolie Renee Sunday, Apr 19 1998 5:13PM ET Reply # of 138 A little more info on President Murrie (looks good): Prior to becoming the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Murrie was President of the Company's largest and most profitable business unit. Mr. Murrie has over twenty-five years of business executive experience, substantially all of which was in the healthcare information technology industry, including operational executive positions with industry leaders, such as HBO & Company where he was President and Chief Executive Officer of its HealthQuest, Inc. subsidiary. Source: Healthdyne Information Enterprises Announces Management Change; New Distribution Alliances; and Third Quarter 1997 Results PR Newswire, Wednesday, October 22, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------- A little more info on Chairman Petit (also looks very good): Parker H. Petit is the founder of Healthdyne, Inc. and served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1970 to March 1996. Healthdyne spun off to its shareholders two of its subsidiaries, Healthdyne Technologies (NASDAQ:HDTC) and Healthdyne Information Enterprises (NASDAQ:HDIE) in 1995. In addition, its remaining subsidiary, Healthdyne Maternity Management, merged with Tokos Medical Corporation to form Matria Healthcare (NASDAQ:MATR) in 1996. Petit currently serves as Chairman of Healthdyne Technologies, Healthdyne Information Enterprises and Matria Healthcare. Petit is a member of the Board of Directors of Atlantic Southeast Airlines, a regional air carrier, and Intelligent Systems Corporation, a technology company. He is also a director of the Georgia Research Alliance, a coalition of government and industry leaders formed to encourage development of high technology business in Georgia. Source: Logility Announces Additions To Distinguished Board Of Directors, PR Newswire, Monday, November 17, 1997

To: Dave Gore who wrote (8525)	4/19/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: Emec	Respond to of 34592

Dave, RENT has contacts with Disney and MGM. They receive their product to distribute through their normal business to retailers that use revenue sharing, ie 8 of the top 10 chains in the counrty. A couple of months ago, Disney announced that it wanted every retailer in the country to be able to get their movies on a revenue sharing basis through traditional distributors that supply non revenue sharing retailers. Ingram is one of the biggest traditional distributors. Disney told all the traditional distributors that they would have to partner with either RENT or Supercomm for this program. I bought when I heard this because I understood what this meant. RENT currently accounts for about $50 million of Disney's total rental business. Disney does something like $600 million per year and obviously thinks it can do more through revenue sharing.. This caught everyone who follows RENT by surprise. A windfall for RENT. The street was urprised when Ingram signed with Supercomm, a small competitor of RENT that only supplies stores within stores in supermarkets. I was not surprised. Ingram will only be able to supply Disney and perhaps MGM through Supercomm since all of the other studios are under exclusive agreements with RENT. I believe that RENT will sign most of the other traditional distributors for the Disney program. Keep in mind everything else going on. All of the other major studios should sign with RENT. Blockbuster is now a RENT customer and said that it exepects 80% of their revenue by the end of the year will be revenue sharing. This is staggering. RENT will get a big chunk of this. Hope this helps to clear it up.