Press Release

Diskfatory Expands Relationship With Musician’s Friend

IRVINE , Calif., March 8, 2005 – DiskFaktory, the leading provider of quality CD and DVD duplication and reproduction services, announced today the expansion of its affiliate relationship with Musician’s Friend, the number one online marketer of music gear in the world. Under terms of the original affiliation in 2003, Musician’s Friend has provided DiskFaktory services to its customer base on an exclusive basis.

With today’s announcement, the two companies’ relationship is enhanced through cross-marketing via e-mail to Musician's’s Friend customers, call center contact, and coverage in its catalogs. “The state-of-the-art approach and level of quality that DiskFaktory implements in its production process is an essential reason why they have been such an ideal partner for an extended period,” said Steve Read, marketing promotions manager for Musician’s Friend.

“The emphasis on quality placed on products and solutions by Musician’s Friend provides an excellent fit with our mission. Musician’s Friend computer and web savvy clients are a natural fit for our business model. So far over 20,000 of their clients have used our service since our web link went live about 20 months ago. Musician’s Friends management are a delight to work with and I am happy to see that we are taking our relationship to its next natural stage of. Our all digital process allows our customers to place their duplication orders on-line in any quantity, at unmatched prices, quality and customer service” said Ben Abadi, DiskFaktory CEO.

Musician's Friend offers over 36,000 products in its mail order catalogs and on its website, musiciansfriend.com. Products offered include guitars, basses, keyboards, percussion, amps, as well as recording, mixing, lighting, and DJ gear. Hundreds of new products are added monthly as the company continues to broaden and deepen its offerings. Musician's Friend still offers money-back satisfaction and price guarantees on every purchase and prides itself on having the highest quality staff of customer service representatives in the industry.

The key to DiskFaktory’s success is a proprietary, powerful on-line job setting GUI that eliminates the need for mailing master and artwork back and forth, giving consumers ability to upload their data, music or video and upload related artwork while the result can be viewed instantly for approval prior to finalizing the order. This translates into faster turn around time while eliminating the need for mailing and setup costs, in addition to passing savings on to the customer. The company’s solutions feature a 600 dpi disc face printing capability that surpasses the 170 dpi traditional silk screening technology that has been around for an extended period.

About Musician’s Friend

Musician's Friend (www.musiciansfriend) was founded in 1983 by Robert and Deanna Eastman, eventually relocating its headquarters from San Francisco to Oregon. The company grew rapidly to become the world's largest direct marketer of music gear. The founders operated the company on one major premise: to give musicians the best prices and selection, along with superior service to help musicians achieve their goals in music. Armed with a vision for excellence, the company was the first in the music industry to offer a generous money-back guarantee, later to become the 45-day Satisfaction and Best Price double guarantee, along with many other innovative programs created to give musicians the best possible shopping experience found anywhere.

About DiskFaktory

Founded in 2000, DiskFaktory is a division of IDT, Inc., which has been developing and manufacturing the highest quality disc duplication systems for the past 10 years, under the MicroSynergy brand name. MicroSynergy’s equipment is being used by Microsoft, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Boeing, NASA, and many more leading organizations.

DiskFaktory provides industry-leading quality CD duplication, DVD duplication, CD replication and DVD replication. The company has redefined the short-run disc duplication and replication process and converted it into an enjoyable, fast and inexpensive process thanks to the company’s extensive technology background provided by MicroSynergy.