Panja, a leader in the emerging market for appliances that extend the Internet beyond the PC, and Music Choice, the world's largest provider of CD quality music to cable, satellite, telephone and Internet customers, announced they have formed an alliance to deliver commercial-free digital music content to consumers through Panja's line of home Internet appliances. Through this alliance, consumers who own a Panja system can receive CD quality music 24 hours a day.

The popular MP3 file swapping service, Napster today began their appeal in front of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Napster was almost shut down in September but was granted a stay of execution by the court and users have been able to freely use the service in the meantime.

Warner Music Group (WMG) will be releasing seven DVD-Audio titles on November 7, 2000 and is preparing a large number of titles for future release. This makes WMG the first major music company to offer albums in the high-resolution, multichannel DVD-Audio format. The first releases are: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, conducted by Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin; Core, by Stone Temple Pilots; Tigerlily, by Natalie Merchant; Johann Strauss in Berlin, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the Berlin Philharmonic; Brain Salad Surgery, by Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Hommage a l'Orchestre Lamoureux: Chabrier's Espana & Ravel's Bolero, with Orchestre Lamoureux conducted by Yutaka Sado, and The Bedroom Mixes, by the Jazz At The Movies Band.

BLACK AND WHITE (Columbia/TriStar) is director/writer James Toback’s 1999 comedy/drama about white people fascinated by black culture, starring Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr., Gaby Hoffman and Jared Leto. The DVD’s supplemental material includes audio commentary from Toback, deleted scenes and alternate takes, music videos and Toback’s "video diary."

Los Angeles (Sept. 25)--Sonic Solutions and Verance Corp. announced at the Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention a strategic relationship to advance the use and integration of the Verance watermarking technology in SonicStudio HD. Sonic Solutions makes some of the most high end professional, digital audio workstations that engineers use to make records. This move is an important political play for Verance to get their controversial watermarking technology into the editing system that many of the best engineers and producers use to make both stereo and 5.1 music on.