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Technology Stocks : e.Digital Corporation(EDIG) - Embedded Digital Technology
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To: John Curtis who wrote (5687)6/13/1999 3:44:00 PM
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From POPULAR SCIENCE Magazine, July 1999.

More Internet Music Players

For almost a year, Diamond Multimedia's Rio was virtually
the only mobile Internet audio player around. That's about to
change. RCA's Lyra is due later this year, and others are in
the works.

The Lyra stores compressed music files on removable
CompactFlash memory cards (available in 32, 64, and soon 200MB
plus capacities) - or on IBM's 340MB MicroDrive, which holds
6 to 12 hours of audio, depending on what MP3 compression ratio
the user selects. The $199 player decodes the Internet standard
MP3 format and can be updated for other formats. Lyra incorporates
Seattle-based RealNetworks' proprietary G2 audio-streaming
format as well as its music management software called
RealJukebox. It also can use other internet formats, such as
AT&T's a2b, Liquid Audio, Lucent's Enhanced Perceptual Audio
Coder (EPAC), and Microsoft's streaming MS Audio - and whatever
secure e-commerce standard the music industry adopts.

Joining the Lyra this year will be the Creative Labs Nomad
MP3 player and a player from Lucent that will use EPAC compression.
Lucent and Texas Instruments are developing a chip for a player
that will be built by e.Digital and use that company's
MicroOS file management system. Texas Instruments is also
working with Liquid Audio on a chip that could be sold to
hardware makers for that proprietary format.

Meanwhile Casio will offer two Windows CE palm-size PC's
using Microsoft's format. Sensory Science (formerly Go-Video)
is readying an MP3 portable made by Saehan, and Samsung is
developing a trio of MP3 devices. - Stephen A. Booth
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