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To: Frank Ellis Morris who wrote (20106)	7/9/1998 10:20:00 AM
From: margaret tasset	Respond to of 27012

Good morning Frank, Here is an article about Intel and music that I thought that you might be interested in if you did not see it. The Intel New York Music Festival Presents: WWW.INTELFEST.COM; A Music Fan's Single Destination for Performances, Community and Commerce Business Wire - July 06, 1998 11:19 SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 6, 1998--Intel Corporation, together with co-executive producers Andrew Rasiej and Michael Dorf, announced today the official launch of the 1998 Intel New York Music Festival Website at www.intelfest.com. Site visitors will have the opportunity to see and hear over 300 band performances from 20 Manhattan, N.Y.-based clubs and exclusive interviews with select bands from Intel's Command Central. Fans will also have exclusive behind-the-scenes footage to experience, community-driven forums to participate in, and commerce opportunities where music and software can be purchased. "Intelfest.com is an online destination for music fans that will deliver the most comprehensive cyber-experience ever created," said Wendy Hafner, director of Intel's Music Marketing. "This is only the beginning, because the site itself is an important example of how music will be distributed, experienced and purchased in the future." Performances Over 300 live concerts will be cybercast on Intelfest.com over the course of four days, enabling artists to reach a global audience. These live concerts will be brought to the online audience via RealAudio(a) and RealVideo(a) streams, with five of the 20 clubs featuring digital photos (provided by EarthCam) that will be refreshed every 60 seconds. Intelfest.com also gives the online user the opportunity to see and hear the band of their choice each night of the festival utilizing a specially designed, Customized Media Player (CMP), which will make club hopping to all of these festival performances easier and more intuitive. Also available for viewing is a 24-hour Festival Highlights channel that will contain archived performances, artist interviews and behind-the-scenes produced segments. The CMP will serve as an online attendees "window" to all of the performances that make up the Intel New York Music Festival. In addition, a Backstage Pass area of the site will provide a behind-the-scenes view of the festival through digital photographs taken of the fans, the artists, the clubs and other interesting back and front stage happenings. Community Intelfest.com also allows music fans to interact with each other in club chat rooms. Once online attendees select a username and password, they will be able to visit and participate in the 20 different club chat rooms, and they can also post opinions, thoughts and observations on bulletin boards found on each of the Festival Band pages. These features will enable music fans to compare notes on a given band, club or just chat like they would at a traditional concert. Commerce The online audience will also have the ability to shop for a variety of music titles in a number of different formats in the Intelfest "E-Store." The ability to purchase music CDs, digitally mastered audio tracks and music software is a key component to this year's festival site. N2K's Music Boulevard online music superstore will enable online visitors to purchase CDs from their favorite Festival artists directly through Intelfest.com. As a special bonus, each music fan that purchases a $40 Festival pass will receive a discount coupon for a future Music Boulevard purchase. Music fans will be able to preview, download, and purchase digital audio tracks from a select group of Festival artists in the Liquid Lounge section of the Intelfest site. Net proceeds of each sale will be paid directly to the artists. Using Liquid Audio's Liquid Music Player CD, music fans can create their own custom playlist, turning their PC into a jukebox on their desktop. Also, the Liquid Music Player CD easily interfaces with popular CD-recorders enabling the creation of custom compilation CDs. The Festival store will also link directly to www.SoftwareForPCs.com, Intel's newly introduced online software store, which will offer specials on music software designed for Intel's Pentium(R) II processor. These music titles let music fans interact and explore music-based content. "With the launch of this site we have initiated the start of the largest online music event in history," said Rasiej. "Intelfest.com will allow music fans to participate in a festival environment from a connected PC anywhere in the world." I hope that you are having a great day today. *****************************GO INTEL********************** Warm regards, Margaret :-)))