Radio@AOL Now Available on NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player

Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital 5 together with NETGEAR and America Online, today announced the availability of Radio@AOL on the NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player (MP101). Fans of AOL's leading Internet radio services can now enjoy tuning in to over 175 stations of originally programmed music from their home stereos through the NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music player.

NETGEAR's Wireless Digital Music Player (MP101) connects your existing home stereo to your home computer network so you can listen to your MP3 and Windows Media format digital music files. The NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player is compatible with your 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network, and automatically finds all your music files by title, artist, album, genre or playlist on any networked PC.

Through a firmware upgrade offered on the NETGEAR website www.netgear.com, existing and future MP101 consumers are now able to listen to over 175 of Radio@AOL's originally programmed, commercial-free music stations.

"NETGEAR is pleased to enable customers to enjoy even more digital entertainment wirelessly," said Vivek Pathela, NETGEAR Director of Consumer Products. "The combination of AOL's premium audio services with NETGEAR's Digital Music Player, complete with Digital 5 software, offers an easy-to-use and affordable way for customers to listen to a wide variety of digital content from anywhere in the house."

"The NETGEAR Wireless Music Player is a great device through which we can now offer Radio@AOL. In spearheading this collaboration, Digital 5 has again proven itself a great partner as we continue to extend our popular online radio service beyond the PC and into the networked home," said Neil Smith, Executive Director and General Manager of Digital Media Services for AOL.

AOL members who own the NETGEAR MP101 will have unlimited access to the Radio@AOL service at no additional fee. Non-members can take advantage of a limited free trial and enjoy:

-- More than 175 originally programmed, CD-quality, commercial free stations
-- Popular AOL Music original programming such as Sessions@AOL intimate, in-studio performances, and AOL Music LIVE! weekly concert series
-- Exclusive Celebrity DJ, All Artist and seasonal stations.

Radio@AOL is part of the AOL Radio Network, a leading online radio network with more than 6 million unique visitors per month.* The network includes 175 AOL-programmed stations, which feature AOL Music's popular programming such as Sessions@AOL, intimate in-studio recordings; AOL Music LIVE, weekly concert series; First Listens, worldwide debuts of the most eagerly anticipated songs, before they are available anywhere else; All Artist stations and Celebrity DJ stations.

The NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player, which is sold online and in national and international retail locations, connects any stereo system in the household to the wired or wireless home network, enabling consumers to enjoy premium audio content from Radio@AOL from the comfort of any room in the home.

Digital 5 has enabled digital entertainment devices on the market by NETGEAR, GoVideo, Gateway and Oritron, and with partnerships in place with AOL, Napster and RealNetworks, Digital 5 continues to enable the secure seamless distribution of content among networked devices that provide the consumer the abundance of music and movies they want to enjoy anywhere and anytime in their home.

Digital 5 offers technology that enables OEMs of consumer electronic digital media devices to securely stream premium audio content from services like Radio@AOL, RealRhapsody and vTuner, by integrating a security framework with the premium content providers DRM schemes. Digital 5 offers the market leading quality of streaming (QoS) schemes to allow real-time transcoding and transrating, while supporting the secure perimeter of the individual service provider DRM content protection of content as it streams through the connected home.

Source: Digital 5, Inc.
Web site: www.digital5.com