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Technology Stocks : e.Digital Corporation(EDIG) - Embedded Digital Technology
EDIG 0.00010000.0%Mar 20 5:00 PM EST
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To: Kerry Sakolsky who wrote (5929)6/18/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: JimC1997  Read Replies (2) of 18366
 
Kerry,

I agree that archiving is going to be a major issue. I had an idea in that regard that I sent to Wendy for consideration recently:

(E-Mail to Wendy:)

As a long-time EDIG/NCII shareholder I have been following your progress with Lucent to develop a portable digital music player for distribution through consumer electronics companies beginning this Christmas.

It seems to me that the home market for such devices will ultimately require a large storage device to contain the downloaded music and/or converted CD music.

I doubt that most consumers will want to store only one hour's worth of music on their players, so either they will buy multiple flash cards for their favorite music (likely, but expensive given the current cost of flash memory) or they will need to store the digital music in another device and swap it in and out of the flash memory cards that they own.

Obviously the PC's hard disk could be used to store music, but given the memory requirements for even a few albums, it is clear that this would not be practical for large-scale storage.

It seems to me that e.Digital should be developing and offering a stand-alone hard disk storage device that can be easily attached to the portable music player and to the PC (for the initial downloading and/or CD conversions. It should be sized to hold at least 200 CDs of music, which would require about 13 to 15 gigabytes of memory in one or more hard disks.

This would be a very good use of the MicroOS (as a controller of the files on the hard disks) and could be produced relatively inexpensively, since no microprocessor mother board should be necessary, and the input/output would not require more than a simple LCD screen and the connectors to the host PC.

The device should be made to fit into the dimensions of standard audio equipment for rack mounting and to give it less of a PC- peripheral look.

This could greatly broaden your product offering and the same device might be useful as a central dictation storage system for the Lanier products.

Let me know what you think.

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