X10.com’s 2.4-Gigahertz Platform Catapults Wired Home Leader

Manufacturer knew PC and Internet-based entertainment would be the next hot market

Seattle — August 27, 1999 —X10.com’s (www.x10.com/pressroom15.htm) family of 2.4-gigahertz products such as the XCam Anywhere™ are becoming the most popular way to transmit high quality audio and video from one location to another in the home.

Beginning with the VideoSender™ introduced in 1998, X10.com has developed simple and powerful products that allow people to watch DVD movies from their PC on a TV, listen to MP3 tracks from the Internet on a home entertainment system, and send live video and audio from a mini-color video camera to any TV up to 100 feet away.

Since the Federal Communication Communication opened up the 2.4-gigaghertz bandwidth for consumer products, X10.com has developed products that use wireless radio signals to send the highest quality of sound and pictures available without customers having to spend thousands of dollars on new equipment.

Unlike many home networking products that require rewiring and produce little utility for the average consumer, the 2.4-gigahertz platform is being rapidly adopted in the consumer electronics market precisely because of its ease of installation and endless options for operating home entertainment products.

"The work being done with the 2.4-gigahertz platform is analagous to X10.com’s pioneer development of its Powerline Carrier Technology which has become an X10 industry standard," said Alex Peder, president X10 (USA) retail sales division. "We believe this new platform has the potential to mean even more to the development and adoption of cutting edge Wired Home products. "

Availability

X10.com’s family of 2.4-gigahertz products are available at www.x10.com/pressroom15.htm or by calling 1-800-675-3044.

About X10.com

Based in Seattle, X10.com is a division of privately held X10 Ltd., the world leader in design and manufacture of proprietary home control, entertainment and security technology products for over 20 years. To date, X10 has shipped well over one hundred million units of home control products worldwide. X10 has received numerous consumer and industry awards. X10.com sells and promotes X10 products direct to the consumer through its web site at www.x10.com/pressroom15.htm Recently, Media Metrix has ranked X10 as a top one hundred e-commerce Web site based on traffic and sales.

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