BlueBeat 'Digital Radio Done Right': Now Available to Philips Streamium Customers

BlueBeat 'Digital Radio Done Right': Now Available to Philips Streamium Customers

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting July 20th, 2005, BlueBeat brings its leading Internet digital radio to Philips' Streamium devices, delivering BlueBeat.com throughout the home and beyond. This partnership offers the premiere combination of high fidelity Internet music and home entertainment systems, resulting in one of the finest music experiences available. The richness of the sound will leave listeners captivated.

The Philips Streamium-enabled products provide a plug and play capability -- wireless if preferred -- linking consumer PCs to home entertainment systems. Streamium devices allow a direct connection to content from the Internet as well as PCs, giving users the ability to centralize access to music, videos, photos, and video games. Jean-Marc Matteini, General Manager of Philips Connected Planet Applications and Services, states, "Philips is pleased to welcome BlueBeat.com to our family of Streamium services. This new partnership between Philips and BlueBeat.com provides Streamium users with an exciting new way to listen to their favorite music. It is a winning combination for our customers who seek the highest fidelity musical experience."

Since its inception in 2003, BlueBeat.com has become the benchmark for Internet radio. Simply put, this music service has raised the standard for Internet-based high fidelity music. With music streaming at 160 kb/s or 320 kb/s and a catalog topping 500,000+ titles on more than 350 diverse channels, BlueBeat.com has become a popular Internet destination site. As one satisfied BlueBeat.com customer states, "I am an avid audiophile...I am so delighted with your choices of tracks as well as the high level of performance. You have quickly become my most recommended online service! Thank you so much for making my day so much more enjoyable."

This Philips Streamium/BlueBeat.com relationship yields an undeniably stunning result that even the most demanding audiophile will appreciate. Consumers are given the benefit of listening to BlueBeat.com's superior audio streams through their home entertainment system, thus providing a more dramatic and engaging listening experience than users find with lower quality audio via standard computer speakers.

BlueBeat.com founder and CEO Hank Risan states, "The avant-garde coupling of BlueBeat's high fidelity music and Philips' Streamium devices is a dream come true for musicians, music lovers and audiophiles worldwide, allowing listeners the long-overdue freedom to enjoy the highest caliber of online music through a home entertainment system."

About BlueBeat.com

BlueBeat.com, a subsidiary of Media Rights Technologies -- a leading provider of copy-control and superdistribution software -- launched as a free digital radio offering in July 2003. The service features over 500,000 tracks of CD-quality music in over 100 genres and 350 channels, covering more than a century of music, and streams secure MP3s at 160kb/s and 320kb/s.

About Philips Royal Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE:PHG)(NYSE:AEX:)(NYSE:PHI) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 30.3 billion in 2004. With activities in the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology and 160,900 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and silicon system solutions. News from Philips is located at http://www.philips.com/newscenter.

Media Contact: Quake Cox, BlueBeat.com

831.426.4412, Quake@bluebeat.com

Source: BlueBeat.com

CONTACT: Quake Cox of BlueBeat.com, +1-831-426-4412 or Quake@bluebeat.com

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