Dallas, TX, July 19, 1999 -- Creating a whole new market for entertainment, Panja announced today it is giving consumers instant random access to exploding Internet audio and video content ... and sending it right to the entertainment devices in our homes today.

The company’s Panja 1000 entertainment gateway is a new system that installs in homes and connects the Internet directly to existing stereo’s, TVs, and VCRs through a Panja/Cisco branded cable modem (see related release). The company is also announcing the Panja 2000 home control and information gateway. Panja 2000 provides total home control and enables the delivery of Internet information to non-PC displays including wireless touch-panels and LCD keypads.

"We share a common vision of the importance of extending broadband connectivity to and within the home, and giving consumers fast, easy access to valuable content and services,"

said Robba Benjamin, vice president and general manager of Cisco Systems’ Consumer Line of Business

"We believe we are at an inflection point, literally changing how we are entertained,"

said Panja Chairman John McHale.

"At the touch of a finger on a sleek, wireless hand-held panel, Panja delivers instantly to our stereo’s, TVs, and VCRs the incredibly vast entertainment on the Internet. The PC is no longer exclusive intermediary for the Internet."

To make it possible, Dallas-based Panja today unveiled breakthrough technology called Entertainment Processing Level 3 (EP3^TM). EP3 is the "magic" inside of the new Panja 1000 entertainment gateway, through which Internet entertainment is directed to homes. EP3 selects and decodes MP3, MPEG, Real Audio, Real Video and other encoding schemes.

"Imagine instant access to any song or video you want, without loading a CD or going to a store,"

said Panja CEO and President Joe Hardt.

"And you can pull down to the stereo in your living room any radio station broadcast from anywhere in the country, like having a ten-mile high antenna on your roof. Access anywhere, anytime to any music you want."

Panja will be delivering three subscription services this fall:

• Broadband Blast^TM, the exciting broadband entertainment link to a new Internet experience on home entertainment appliances and systems. This breakthrough service is blasting out of the gate to meet a huge, hot demand for online multimedia away from the PC. It lets consumers -- whether from couch, patio, family room or bedroom -- draw down MP3, MPEG video and the complete range of Internet streaming audio and video content and direct it to big screen TV, stereo receivers and other entertainment sites. Broadband Blast is $19.95 per month.
• IControl^TM, the solution that gives people remote control of their homes from the Internet, it charts new territory only talked about to date -- the vanguard of a future in which appliances throughout the home will talk to the Internet, and to each other. For example, a person could go online from a remote location to check home and office security systems. IControl is $9.95 per month.
• PanjaCast^TM, IP home "narrowcasting" that delivers personalized information from the Internet to wireless touch-panels and LCD keypads within the home. Information such as local traffic, weather, and news briefs can be conveniently accessed without booting up a PC. Panjacast is $9.95 per month.

Many of these services are delivered in partnership with Infoseek (see related release).

"Infoseek is excited about having Panja as a new distribution channel,"

said Infoseek Chairman Steve Kirsch.

"This is win-win for everyone -- for Panja, for Infoseek but most of all for the consumer."

Panja has priced the Panja 1000 to be affordable by the broader market. The Panja 1000 entertainment gateway solution, including touch-panel and EP3 engine will ship this fall. US list price is $2495. Panja 2000, available in the fall, will be priced at a later date.

Panja is the leader in extending the Internet beyond the PC. Panja holds coding knowledge of more than 20,000 appliances and devices, and is worldwide leader in network and control technology for residential, commercial and educational applications. With nearly 1,600 consumer and enterprise dealers and 16 years of control and automation experience, no other company has a deeper understanding of the Internet as it relates to consumer and commercial appliances.

Infoseek, founded in 1994, integrates Internet services with leading consumer brands, creating a global media network that enriches people’s daily lives. These services include Infoseek’s award-winning search engine; commerce connections from more than 2 million products from hundreds of retailers and service providers, and original programming content from leading consumer brands like ABC, Disney, ESPN and ZDNet.