Exabyte To Provide Storage for Information Highway
Mammoth Opens New Markets

In order to meet the needs of the future user, Mammoth leapfrogs current
technology. With six times the transfer rate of previous products and
almost three times the capacity, Mammoth is the right product at the right
time to asist in getting the information highway to everyone's front
door.

The Future User

Visualize a new set-top box in the home entertainment center, the command
center for the future user's home information needs. Information comes in
on a fiber optic cable and is disseminated via enhanced remotes in every
room.

Bill Gates has created a enw Window whereby you can watch Old Yeller in one
window while checking on your stocks in aother and tomorrow's weather on a
third; your daughter shops for a sweater on her bedroom system; your son
refers to his online encyclopedia at his desk; your mother calls in on the
pictelphone; and your husband searches through Bon Appetit for recipes for
a low-fat pot roast in the kitchen.

This is not the distant futre. It's just around the corner and Mammoth's
capabilities will be pivotal in the technology that enables this
comprehensive access to information.

Where is the Market Going?

A whole new world is opening up. The information highway that everyone has
been hearing about includes:

- video on demand
- multimedia
- 3D graphics
- video conferencing
- CAT scan storage

The requirements for these storage intensive applications are growing
exponentially.

Oracle and AT&T, IBM, GE, Sony and the cable TV companies are figuring out
now how to make the information highway accessible to the future user.
Oracle is working on the software for the database. AT&T is going beyond
existing cable options to fiber optic cable. These companies have come to
Exabyte for help in storing all the data.

HDTV

Digital video is already feasible on current TVs. With a 5-gigabyte 8mm
drive you can store a 2.7-hour movie and play it back in real time on a
640 pixels x 480 pixels VGA computer monitor or on a 525-line TV screen --
today.

High-definition TV (HDTV) is the future -- the near future. Instead of a
525-line screen on your TV or a 640x480 computer monitor, HDTV has a 1125
line screen or a 1Kx2K computer monitor for more gradual color transitions
and sharper detail. This means that a lot more data needs to be stored and
transmitted. Increased capacity and transfer rates are required. A
two-hour movie for HDTV required 17-gigabytes of data storage and a
2.4-megabyte per second transfer rate for real-time viewing.

Mammoth: The Solution

Mammoth stores 20 gigabytes of data on a single cartridge (uncompressed)
and has a 3-megabyte-per-second transfer rate. This means that one Mammoth
cartridge will hold an entire HDTV movie. And farms of EXB-480 libraries
will hold 40 to 80 movies each.

An Enabling Technology

Mammoth will expand the tape storage market beyond Exabyte's traditional
backup role by making new applications on the information highway possible
-- applications such as HDTV.

First, early technology adopters will integrate Mammoth into
video-on-demand servers because it meets their performance and capacity
priorities.

Then, the more conservative buyers, the businesses, will integrate Mammoth
for data-intensive applications such as online training, CAT scans and
pictures of the universe, as it satisfies their priorities of increased
capacity and decreasing price.

Finally, about three years from now, with the price dropping and the
capacity and performance needs of the consumer rising, Mammoth will be
required on each desktop for such applications as fully interactive video
editing.

Right Product -- Right Time

The timing is perfect. All of the technologies needed for the information
highway are converging now. And Mammoth will be available just when its
transfer rates, capacity and reliability are critical to the needs for
data storage. Through its capabilities, you, the future user, will have
access to all the information and entertainment you evere wanted --
accessible from your living room sofa. And you know what that means --
channel surfing will becomre a new Olympic event.
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Mammoth Facilitates Process Digital Video Editing with 8mm Tape

With the advent of desktop video editing there is a growing need for an
inexpensive way to store massive amounts of source video in digital form
for off-line editing. It's not unusual to have eight hours of source video
tape for a 10-minute video.

"Disks are too expensive for storing that much data," says Exabyte's
creative director. "To store that much data on disk costs ten times what
tape costs -- not to mention that I can archive the tape."

Today you can digitize and store the eight hours of source material on
three 5-gigabyte 8mm cartridges and just transfer the clips you need to
the disk for editing.

With Mammoth, all the source video would fit on one tape. And with the fast
transfer rate, after editing, you could turn around and view the finished
video from the same cartridge.

Exabyte Corp
1685 38th Street
Boulder, CO 80301
303-442-4333,  fax 303-447-7170

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