Creative Labs Launches New Sound Blaster 32 Discovery CD 8x with Extended Software Titles

- Leading WaveTable Sound Card Technology Offered with Internet Software -

17th September, 1996 - Creative Labs, the leading provider of multimedia products for the PC, announced at its annual European Technology Forum in Marbella the launch of a new version of the best-selling Discovery upgrade kit. The Sound Blaster 32 Discovery CD 8x kit will include the latest-technology 8-speed CD-Rom drive and advanced wave table sound card as well as high performance powered stereo speakers. The new version of the Discovery kit will include Internet software and software titles based on the latest Disney animated movies, Toy Story and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Encarta 96 the Microsoft encyclopaedia software and Actua Soccer will also be included.

Internet software is now included as standard with the Sound Blaster 32 card; Microsoft's Internet explorer for browsing, Creative's WebPhone for local rate phone calls worldwide, and Progressive Network's RealAudio player that enables the play- back of stored or real-time news and radio over the Internet. Creative has added these applications at no extra charge to the consumer.

Jan Hauer, Creative's multimedia product manager commented that "With the new version of Sound Blaster 32 Discovery CD 8x the customer is able to upgrade their PC to bring it in line with today's top of the range multimedia hardware with the additional value of the latest software titles."

The Sound Blaster 32 delivers WaveTable audio based on the EMU 8000 from E-Mu Systems, Inc. This enables real instrument sounds, as opposed to synthesised sounds, for a more real and immersive audio experience. The 8x CD-Rom drive enables full motion video as well as complex animation.

The kit includes
Hardware

8x CD-Rom drive

Sound Blaster 32 PnP

High performance stereo speakers with an output of 10W

Software

Actua Soccer

Toy Story and The Hunch Back of Notre Dame titles based on the top Disney animated movies

Microsoft's Encarta 96

Availability
The Sound Blaster 32 Discovery CD 8x will be available from October at a suggested retail price of Ł199 inc VAT.

About Creative ...
Creative Technology, Ltd., is the world's leading provider of multimedia hardware and solutions for personal computers, including sound, graphics, communications and video conferencing products with its Sound Blaster technology adopted as the world-wide standard sound platform for PCs.

Founded in 1983, Creative Technology's corporate headquarters are based in Singapore with international subsidiaries and affiliate offices in China, Europe, South Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan and the US. The European head office is based at Ruscombe near Twyford in the UK. In January 1994, Creative opened its European operations and technical centre in Dublin, which provides telephone support for European customers in six languages. Creative Labs Europe has grown eight-fold in the past three years with subsidaries in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, Benelux, Denmark and Sweden. The European operation currently employs around 450 staff.