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| Stock symbol: OTC: ACNI.PK |
Average daily volume 172,000 |
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Stock price 7/29/04: $.10 |
Common shares (7/29/04): 40mm, Float 8mm |
| 52-week price range: $0.03 - $.26 |
Equity market capitalization: $4 million |
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| Click to listen to the Interview
with: |
| Tony Barnard, ETV CEO,
and Larry O'Donnell, COO |
| (August 2, 2004) |
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| ACNI
Overview |
| American IDC (ACNI) recently signed both
an exclusive license agreement and a letter of intent to merge with a private
Hollywood-based company, ETV Inc., www.etvhollywood.tv
. ETV offers |
| □ A complete end-to-end solution for broadband
streaming over the Internet, |
| □ Combined with an exclusive, proven digital
streaming technology and revenue-producing content |
| □ Includes Hollywood classic movies, television
programs and cartoons. |
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| Summary
-- ACNI & Internet TV |
| □ ACNI is helping drive a paradigm
shift to digital video on the Internet |
| □ By bringing multiple TV channels
to the Internet |
| □ With a vertically integrated,
end-to-end solution: content => technology => distribution |
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| "DVDs
will be dead in a decade" |
| ...according to Bill Gates, July 19th |
| http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2004/jul/19look.htm |
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| Gates said that movie-watchers of the future
will find the idea of buying a shiny disc with a movie stored on it 'ridiculous.'
He predicted that these movie fans will instead watch films on television
sets that will be able to download films and programs via the Internet. |
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| "The entertainment of the future will
definitely not be on a DVD player, that technology will be completely gone
within 10 years at the most. When you consider that today we carry music
and films around on silver discs and then have to insert them in computers,
that is actually pretty ridiculous. These discs could end up being damaged,
or simply getting lost," the Bild quoted Gates as saying. |
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| "The TV of the future will show us
exactly what we want and when we want," Gates said. "It will know
what we don't want our children to see. It will be able to show us a display
of family photos and on a command will remove the ones with the mother-in-law
in them from the display, if we want it to." |
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| VIEW
INTERNET TV on your TV |
| Simply run a cable from 'video out' on
your broadband computer (with a video card) to 'video in' on your TV. Wireless
also works |
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| ACNI
INTERNET TV REVENUE SOURCES |
| □ Consumers pay for movie, tv
and music downloads using digital rights management software from ACNI,
similar to Apple's iPod |
| □ Companies pay for content distribution,
similar to infomercials |
| □ Advertisers pay to reach consumers
and industry, similar to TV and Internet advertising |
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| Broadband Internet TV examples |
| □ Consumers can download Classic
films |
| http://www.99cent-movies.com
as well as music |
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| □ Companies and advertisers pay
for their own Broadband Internet TV channel |
| For example, International Sports and Media
Group (ISME) is creating a joint venture with ACNI to launch a 24/7 world
soccer channel |
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| Address : American IDC Corp, 11301
Olympic Boulevard , Suite 680, Los Angeles, CA 90064 |
| Telephone : 310-445 2599 |
Web Sites: http://www.americanidc.com/
http://www.mycoffeedate.com/
(see below) http://www.ezwebcrafter.com/
hotrazor.com a downloading music site
preparing for launch (see below) |
| State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization:
Florida |
Independent Auditors: Russell Bedford Stefanou
Mirchandani LLP
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| Investor contact: Peter Matousek , 503-332-9675,
Gordon Lee, CEO, 310-445-2599 |
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| State
of the art broadband Internet TV solutions |
| (digitizing, compressing, broadband
streaming/downloading) |
| □ Broadcasts at 500 kilobits
per second per second --.no one has a clearer full screen display |
| □ Content is first encoded in full MPEG2, suitable
for cable broadcasting |
| □ Then is transcoded into Windows
Media 9 broadband format for streaming channels |
| □ And is transcoded into Windows
Media 9 and AVI formats for downloads |
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| Background & Trends |
| Home computer users will be able to download
and view movies in DVD format for television viewing, or PC quality, full-screen
on their computers, using a standard broadband connection with no additional
hardware. |
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American IDC also develops online interactive
communities such as music/entertainment product sites, dating sites and
portals for its own businesses.
ACNI also provides custom software that creates flexible driven e-commerce
and website solutions that are built and managed using popular web browsers, |
| — Including the
downloading of these products from the ACNI's sites |
| — To the hard drives
of home-based clients with Internet-enabled computers. |
|
ETV,
Inc. |
| □ ETV & the 99-Cent Hollywood
Classic Movie Download Site |
| • http://www.99cent-movies.com |
• Full-length Hollywood
classic movies for just 99 cents each. • Expects
500 classic movies available for download by the beginning of September. |
| • Online payments
facilitated by BitPass Inc., a leading Internet payment company that has
made it economically feasible for online content providers to accept small
" micropayments ." |
| ETV Inc.
holds a licensing agreement with the largest known private library of Hollywood
classic films, television programs and cartoons, totaling over 10,000 titles,
for both broadband and broadcast in the U.S. and China |
| • The titles are
being encoded, stored and delivered in a digital medium. |
| • This way, the
content never degrades as it is handled throughout the delivery process. |
| • The titles are
available to television stations and cable operators, digitally encoded,
at a fraction of the cost of other Hollywood film and TV titles. |
| • ETV streams movies,
full screen, 24/7 |
| • Movie downloads
are in both Windows Media and AVI formats |
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| Program Content includes: |
| □ Hollywood classic films ranging
from The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin (1920s), Alfred Hitchcock’s The
Man Who Knew Too Much with Peter Lorre (1934), and The Scarlet Pimpernel
with Leslie Howard & Merle Oberon (1935), to Amazing Adventure with
Cary Grant (1936), At War with the Army with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
(1949), and Hercules with Steve Reeves (1959). |
| □ Biographies of major stars
such as Audrey Hepburn, Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, and Frank
Sinatra. |
| □ Classic television series such
as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Dick Tracy, Dragnet with Jack Webb,
and Medic with Richard Boone. |
| □ 8-hour program blocks devoted
to such subjects as Zorro, Dick Tracy, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis
Presley, and Hollywood western stars such as Roy Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy,
and Gene Autry. |
| • Cartoon series
like Superman, Popeye, Betty Boop , The Three Stooges, Bugs Bunny, and more. |
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| Other Content Areas |
| □ Classic sports, extreme sports,
sports, religion, self-help, cooking and other areas of wide interest, including
comedy, medical and music videos |
| □ Plus corporate employee training
programs, education including distance learning, infomercials, etc. |
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| China |
| □ ETV is finalizing negotiations
to introduce its proven streaming technology in China |
| □ ETV's CEO plans to meet with
several content providers with the intention of bringing Chinese films to
the North American continent for both streaming and download sales to Chinese
communities in the U.S. |
| □ In turn, ETV seeks approval
to bring its library of classic Hollywood movies to China. |
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| Africa |
| Negotiations are also underway to install
ETV's technology in Africa for the purpose of bringing African films and
content to the U.S. and bringing Hollywood classic movies for Internet downloads
in Africa. |
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| Latin America |
| Negotiations are underway for pulling soccer
and movie content form Latin American to the U.S., for access by the growing
U.S. Latin American population. |
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| Other |
| Preliminary negotiations are beginning
with potential partners in India, Russia, Italy, U.K., Singapore, Thailand
and, of course, Canada. |
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| Four Continents |
| ETV expects to have its download technology
in place on four continents by the end of November |
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| Over 2,000 downloads in three
days |
| □ A three day test ended April
23 produced nearly 2,000 downloads of two classic movies from www.99cent-movies.com The two classic
movies were: |
| — ROAD TO BALI,
starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour , |
| — SUDDENLY, featuring
Frank Sinatra. |
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| Technology |
| □ First broadband channel that
streams classic Hollywood films, 24/7, over the Internet in full screen |
| □ ETV Inc. www.etvhollywood.tv offers
proprietary "Digital Network in a Rack" streaming technology |
| □ CariNet (http://www.cari.net),
San Diego-based Internet services provider, selected to be ETV's global
command center, to bring Hollywood classic movies to the world for both
streaming and downloading over the Internet |
| □ From the remote management
from command center in San Diego, technicians can monitor and change content
on any of the company's servers through out the world. |
| □ The fully automated solution
provides verification of content played. |
| □ A complete movie can be sent
around the world in 5 minutes |
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| Dating
Sites |
| MyCoffeeDate.com |
| MyCoffeeDate.com is online and launched
through a strategic alliance with Thunder Road, and shares a database of
approximately 350,000 people who submitted their profiles to MatchRanger.com,
Thunder Road's primary dating site. MyCoffeeDate.com is not yet charging
for its premium memberships but plans to do this in mid 2004. When it does,
Thunder Road will receive 25% of the member revenue for their services. |
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| American IDC has an affiliate agreement
with SMARTpages.com, the leading source of online yellow pages, to provide
coffee shop and cafe listings for this website. The SMARTpages.com directory
also provides MyCoffeeDate.com members with the detailed maps and directions
of their local coffee shops and cafes. MyCoffeeDate.com will receive revenue
from click-throughs to SMARTpages.com. |
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| Dating sites partnering with
syndicated television shows |
| In addition to MyCoffeeDate.com, American
IDC Corp. has a joint venture agreement with Firefly Media Group, an entertainment
production and distribution company, to provide matchmaking web sites for
their upcoming syndicated television shows that revolve around dating. The
shows are Astromates (to be renamed Signs of Love), Cinderella Factor, Cupids
Court, Find Your Date, and Set Me Up. |
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| Each of the matchmaking websites that American
IDC will create, co-own and partner with Firefly Media Group are hoped to
provide added revenue streams, cross marketing and advertising opportunities,
strengthen brand recognition and build an interactive community. In addition,
each site will encourage audience and viewer submissions, as well as applications
from those who want to either attend or be participants on the shows. |
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| The dating television shows are planned
to be in domestic syndication and international distribution in 2004. The
first launch will be Astromates , with production of its pilot scheduled
for Spring 2004. The Astromatestv website that ties in with the Astromates
television show, for example, is planned to enable members to find love
on the web with the assistance of online astrologers. Plans include enabling
members to have their astrological charts shown online to assist in finding
an astrological love match. |
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| The dating sites are being completed to
coincide with each show's premiere. There will be no initial charge to register
on the dating sites. A membership fee, comparable in price to similar dating
sites, will be offered to those individuals who want to enjoy the sites'
premium features. |
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| HotRazor.com
-- 39 cents a song |
| HotRazor.com, currently being produced by
American IDC, is planned to give local independent, unsigned musicians from
across the globe, the ability to have their music listened to and sold to
music lovers worldwide while sharing in the download revenue. |
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| HotRazor.com's development began in the
fourth quarter of 2003. It will be a music downloading website developed
specifically to provide an outlet for independent artists to market, promote,
and upload their music to sell to public consumers across the globe. Unlike
most other music sites, there are no membership fees to join. The cost of
downloading its music is anticipated to be 39 cents per song. |
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| HotRazor.com will be providing Internet
radio streaming of its unsigned artists in various genre formats. Streaming
will benefit its musician members by providing them with free promotional
value in addition to their inclusion in its downloading database. HotRazor.com
expects to charge for advertising oni ts streaming sites. |
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| Hotrazor.com's anticipates that its initial
revenue will come from several sources. This includes: |
| □ fees paid by music downloaders |
| □ fees paid by independent (indie
) bands to be on the site |
| □ advertising revenue from the
website and streaming media broadcasts |
| □ consulting fees and commissions
for working with indie bands |
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| HotRazor.com's projected, consumer demographic
ranges from teens to adults, 13-54, with an emphasis on the youth market.
HotRazor.com will be a destination portal website for music fans to chat
both with bands and each other, download music, listen to streaming, vote
on favorite songs, and enjoy the opportunity to own the best of what record
labels have yet to find. |
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| In exchange for a minimal fee, bands will
be provided with their own web page on HotRazor.com, with the ability to
edit and upload band photos, contact information, tour dates, links to their
private websites, fan page commentary, as well as the value of being included
in an easily searchable database of downloadable music with other unsigned
artists in their musical genre. |
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| The site is under development and is planned
to launch in the fourth quarter of 2004, with Internet radio streaming to
follow after. Its initial plan is to begin to populate the site by offering
500 bands a membership to HotRazor.com, free of charges for the first year,
in the period immediately after launch. This offer is to aid in populating
its database of music to offer to downloading consumers using the site.
Upon reaching that goal, HotRazor.com will begin signing bands for a small
fee, while drawing downloading listeners to the site. |
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| MANAGEMENT
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| Gordon F. Lee, CEO |
| Mr. Lee has been the President and sole
Director the Company since March 28, 2000. From 1991 to March 1998, Mr.
Lee served as the President of USA Video Corporation, one of the first companies
to offer video on demand and high quality digitizing and compression services.
From March 1998 to March 1999, Mr. Lee served as the President of Glass
Master Industries, a company working on the development of a bullet resistant
glass coating technology, which was eventually sold off to other companies
for commercial development. From March 1999 through the present, Mr. Lee
has served as President of Bentley Commerce Corp., a barter company. From
March 2000 to present, Mr. Lee continues to serve as Bentley's CFO and Chairman.
Mr. Lee has also served in the past five years on the Board of Directors
of companies such as Laser Vision Inc. and Future Media Technologies. |
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| Robert Schumacher, President
and COO |
| Mr. Schumacher is president and COO of American
IDC and has overall supervision of its projects, including HotRazor.com
project. Over the past decade, he has launched a number of successful companies
ranging from internet design, hosting and marketing, to online software,
to the design of medical devices, as well as developing the marketing strategies
and online presence for a host of other organizations. Among his many accomplishments,
Bob was President of Centrum Corporation, a Washington, D.C. headquartered
communications firm he founded with offices in Europe. It served a wide
range of companies, national and international trade associations, and public
service organizations, providing them with marketing, advertising, design,
public relations, documentary film production and conference organization. |
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