Creative Launches Discovery CD 4x Multimedia Upgrade Kit

- New Entry-Level Kit Offers Best Value to Family Market -

August 17th 1995, Creative Labs - the leading provider of multimedia products for the PC - today announced Sound Blaster Discovery CD 4x, the newest addition to its quad-speed line of multimedia kits for the PC. Sound Blaster Discovery CD 4x brings the latest CD-ROM technology to families looking for a high performance, low-cost upgrade option.

The product combines an industry standard Sound Blaster 16 audio card, an internal quad-speed IDE CD-ROM drive and a total of 18 educational and entertainment software titles. The suggested retail price for the Sound Blaster Discovery CD 4x is £300 ex VAT.

"With Discovery CD 4x, Creative offers 100 percent Sound Blaster compatibility of all components, the latest technology at value pricing and the best customer service from the industry's leader in multimedia." says Simon Isted, Creative's UK retail account manager.

The IDE quad-speed CD-ROM drive has a transfer rate of 600KB per second and an access time of better than 250ms; and it is multi-session, Kodak Photo CD-compatible. Sound Blaster 16 is wave table synthesis upgradeable and provides CD-quality stereo sampling and playback. Stereo speakers are also included in the kit. The following software titles are included:

1995 Grolier Multi Media Encyclopedia

Hong Kong Mahjong(tm) Pro

Yeager's Air Combat(tm)

Wing Commander Academy

Ultima© VII

Space Hulk

Ultima© Underworld

Populou(tm) II

Seven Cities of Gold(tm)

Shadow Caster(tm)

The Savage Empire(tm)

How ToT Computers

Creative Wave Studio(tm)

Creative Sound O'le(tm)

Creative MosaicT

Creative Talking Scheduler(tm)

Creative Text Assist(tm)

About Creative...
Creative Labs UK is a subsidiary of Creative Technology, the world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of multimedia and communications products for PCs. Best known for establishing its Sound Blaster system as the industry standard for PC audio - with sales of over 1 million a month - Creative also leads the market in multimedia upgrade kits, video boards and voice recognition technology.

Creative Technology was founded in 1981 and is based in Singapore. The company's subsidiaries include Creative Labs in China, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and the US. The European head office is based at Ruscombe, near Twyford. In January 1994, Creative opened its technical support group in Dublin, which provides telephone support to French, German and English-speaking customers across Europe. Creative's stock is traded on the NASDAQ exchange, with sales in FY 1995 of $1202.3 million - a 83% increase on 1994.