BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$250.5K
- Private
- US
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Once upon a time, about 11years ago, the PC graphics market was quite different to its current self. Nobody could imagine then that NVIDIA would ever be able to buy 3dfx or rather the remains of that firm, that S3 Graphics would be nearly forgotten and ATI Technologies would be the leader Users had other names on their tongues, Diamond Multimedia. If you was around in the second half of the 1990-s, you probably recall something about this company? Diamond Multimedia took a neutral approach to making relationships with graphics chip makers. Without swearing its allegiance to any particular brand, this company was producing graphics adapters of Viper, Stealth and Monster series on chips from S3, 3dfx, NVIDIA and others. Moreover, in the remote 1995, Diamond supported the fresh and young NVIDIA by releasing a complex multimedia solution Diamond EDGE 3D (on the NV1 chip), which was both a graphics adapter and an audio card. Besides making graphics cards, the company was also into audio cards, modems and even mainboards. The red-white Diamond logo and Viper, Monster and Stealth brands are well known to users who wanted simply the best products available. Today Diamond Multimedia partners with ATI Technologies in its efforts to provide the absolute best quality in advanced graphics. In addition, Diamond continues to stay on top by offering the top technology in digital television, communications and sound hardware solutions to the home and business consumers.
Diamond Multimedia CEO
Bruce ZamanNumber of Employees 2
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers: 423690
Recent Events
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Diamond Introduces the ATI RadeonTM HD 5870 and 5850 Graphics Cards
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Diamond Multimedia, RIAA Settle Lawsuit Over Rio MP3 Player
Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc and the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA have settled all pending litigation relating to Diamond's Rio portable MP3 player. The Rio plays music downloaded from the internet in the copyright-unprotected MP3 audio compression format. In 1998, RIAA sued Diamond on the grounds that Rio may...
MP3 "Space-Shifting" Ruled Fair Use Under Copyright Law
A US Court of Appeals panel has ruled that the MP3 audio compression format "space-shifts" digital music files in the same way a video recorder "time-shifts" television shows. That ruling implies that copying legitimately obtained files with MP3 technology should be considered "fair use" under copyright law. The landmark decision...
Diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3player - Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc
diamond multimedia's Rio PMP300 MP3 player synopsis: Prize of prizes, Diamond's Rio PMP300, a compact, controversial new system for encoding and playing audio tracks from the Internet and other sources in near Red Book-quality MP3, is a tiny wonder of modern industry. Downloading up to 37 minutes of MP3s...
Lucent Teams With eDigital, TI on Secure Rival to MP3
Lucent Technologies Inc is working with e.Digital Corp to build a new handheld device for playing music downloaded from the internet. The device, which e.Digital plans to manufacture, will use the Lucent Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder EPAC and a new class of digital signal processors DSPs...
RIAA loses bid for injunction to stop sale of Diamond Multimedia RIO MP3 Player; appeal pending
The Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has sued Diamond Multimedia over the company's portable MP3 player, the Rio, resulting in some rapidfire headlines, a battle of press releases, some hastily called news conferences, and an interesting, yet puzzling, court ruling. In an effort to "protect the creative content...
keep those CARDS and LETTERS coming
How about putting 250 or so songs on a single CD-R? On a Red Book audio CD, you couldn't record them as 250 discrete tracks, since the format limits you to 99, and 99 tracks in 74 minutes hardly leaves much room for musical enlightenment. But if you play CDs...
Analysts Predicting Legal Hurdles For Online Music Technology.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18 -- LAS VEGAS -- It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes and plays music with CD-quality sound. But unlike a portable compact disc player, it can be jostled and bumped without skipping a single note. ...
Diamond Wins First Round Of Legal Battle Over Rio
Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc can go ahead and ship its Rio portable music player, following the denial of a preliminary court injunction taken out against it by the Recording Industry Association of America (CI No 3,520). The RIAA's suit was denied by the US Central District...
RIAA Takes Stand to Protect Legitimate Online Marketplace; Legal Action Filed Against Manufacturer of MP3 Portable Recording Device
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 9, 1998--In a move to protect the creative content of the music industry, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA, joined by the Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies, has filed a complaint against San Jose-based Diamond Multimedia. The RIAA charges that Diamond's portable MP3 recording device, Rio,...
Diamond Multimedia to Fight Legal Action Filed by the Recording Industry Association of America
SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 9, 1998--"Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq:DIMD), a leader in interactive multimedia and PC entertainment, has been subjected to the Recording Industry Association of America's RIAA oppressive practices designed to prevent shipment of the company's recently announced Rio PMP300 portable music player which supports the popular compression...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Bruce Zaman | Diamond Multimedia CEO |
| Mark Geller | Diamond Multimedia Senior Marketing Manager |
| Pat Shubert |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Greg Reyes | Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Diamond Multimedia CEO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Diamond Multimedia Senior Marketing Manager | Current |
Pat Shubert is heading up Rapport Incorporated's manufacturing activities. Ms. Shubert is responsible for all elements of chip and hardware production, including relationships and contracts with foundries, test houses, chip packagers, intellectual property providers, design houses, contract manufacturers and others. Ms. Shubert has long-standing working relationships with Tier 1 international suppliers such as TSMC, UMC, ATE, Flextronics, Sanmina-SCI and Charter. She has put OEM deals in place for companies such as Creative Labs, Diamond Multimedia, Compaq and Packard Bell. Her extensive track record encompasses dozens of successful semiconductor and hardware products that incorporate cutting-edge processes and materials. Specific market launches include automated test systems created by NATIS for PG&E, along with millions of chips, chipsets and graphic boards from 3Dfx, Video7 and Headlands. Ms. Shubert's quality management experience extends to ISO 9000 certification, significant quality metrics improvements and creation of end-to-end quality programs.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rapport, Inc. | Vice President of Operations Manufacturing and Quality | Current |
| Creative Labs, Inc. | Current | |
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Current | |
| Sanmina-SCI Corporation | Former | |
| Ate, Inc | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Futuretrade | Current | |
| Diamond Multimedia, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | BS in Mechanical Engineering | Former |


