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Contact:	Chuck Schenk	(305) 266-2800/(305) 261-2544 Fax
					marketing@blossomvideo.com

LOW COST EDUCATIONAL VIDEO WORKSTATION INTRODUCED!

MIAMI, FL --  Creative Equipment International Corp., a leading worldwide
manufacturer of desktop video products, introduces the Blossom Buddy�, a
complete highly advanced video workstation aimed at the educational market.

CEI's Blossom Buddy� has a manufacturer's suggested list price of $11,999
(educational price under $10,000) and is available immediately from
selected dealers.

"The CEI Blossom Buddy provides a complete, professional and affordable
video learning environment for educational institutions," said Alex Amor,
President of Creative Equipment International Corp. "The Blossom Buddy is
affordable, ready to use and extremely powerful, and features many of the
same specifications as the popular Blossom� Tower unit.  CEI worked with
leading educators to create the perfect educational video workstation. 
From built in standard networking to a removable media device, it's all
built into the Buddy."  

Whether it is an introductory or advanced professional video class, the
Buddy is ready and willing to tackle the challenge.  With video compression
as low as 2.5 to 1 the video quality challenges units costing upwards of
$60,000.  The Buddy also has the right connections (Composite, S-VHS,
Component) and optional DV (3Q 97).

The Buddy station can be unpacked and plugged in, no assembly required. 
Live video and audio can be recorded to the hard drives. Titles,
transitions, effects and filters can add stunning quality to both the audio
and video.  The titles, animations, audio and video clips can be cut and
pasted to create professional quality projects.

The software tools included almost insure immediate success to any creative
individual.  Adobe Premiere and Photoshop LE provide powerful tools for
video manipulation.  In addition every Buddy includes Adobe's Classroom in
a Box.  This combination provides an educator with hardware, software and a
teaching curriculum.

The Blossom Buddy comes complete with the latest technology: a high speed
Pentium processor, 32MB of Ram, PCI graphic card, NTSC or PAL, 4 GB of hard
drive space, a 1GB removable media device, Composite/S-VHS video, CD
quality audio, a high resolution monitor and networking.  Technical
specifications include:  720 X 480 video pixel resolution, RS170A and
CCIR-601 compliant, variable compression ratios of 2.5:1 to 50:1 and much
more.

Founded in 1977, Creative Equipment International is a worldwide supplier
of multimedia workstations. CEI systems are found in major video production
facilities around the world.