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Key Executives to Speak at Fall Focus:On-Demand Digital Entertainement

Fall Focus: On-Demand Digital Entertainment, hosted by industry experts Parks Associates, will be held November 10-12, 2004, at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort in San Diego, CA. The event will examine the current conditions and future vision for the markets involving digital entertainment content in the networked home.

Moderated by Parks analysts, the panel discussions will feature key executives from a variety of industry domains, including broadband services, content aggregation, and hardware development.

The event will kick off with The Leadership Roundtable, Strengthening Links in the Digital Entertainment Value Chain, on November 11. Key topics will include digital rights management and content protection issues, the evolution of specific platforms to accommodate consumer demand, and service design and deployment.

Leadership Roundtable Participants
Robert Acker, Vice President, RealPlayer and Music Services, RealNetworks
Brett Butler, General Manager, Broadband Cable Business, Texas Instruments
Kip Compton, Vice President, Video/Media Architecture, Comcast
Bob Engel, Director of Marketing, HP Digital Entertainment
David Henry, Senior Vice President, & General Manager Control Devices, Logitech
Peter Lee, Vice-President, Business Development New Technology, The Walt Disney Company
Bill Leszinske, Director, Digital Home Marketing and Planning Desktop Platforms Group, Intel Corporation
Bill Loewenthal, Vice President & General Manager of ReplayTV, D&M Holdings
Neil Smith, General Manager, Digital Media Services, AOL
Bill Taylor, Senior Vice President, Broadband, Motorola

According to Parks Associates, by the end of 2007, there will be eight million subscribers to on-demand music services, generating over $900 million annually, while the number of broadband games-on-demand households will exceed two million.

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