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E.DIGITAL CORPORATION TO SUPPORT QDESIGN MUSIC PLAYBACK IN PORTABLE INTERNET MUSIC PLAYER DESIGN
QDesign Music Codec is the audio compression solution for users of QuickTime by Apple Computers
(SAN DIEGO, CA, November 2, 1999) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG) announced today that it will support QDesign Music playback in e.Digital's portable Internet music player design. The QDesign Music technology is the award-winning audio compression solution for QuickTime 4, Apple Computer's cross-platform (Mac OS and Windows) architecture for digital media creation and delivery.
The QDesign Music Codec is a new generation audio coding technology that was designed to deliver the highest quality audio at the lowest possible data rates. Encoded in the QDesign Music format, consumers can include up to 2.5 hours of music on portable audio players equipped with 32MB storage. To enable consumers with the ability to encode in the QDesign Music format, QDesign announced last week the release of MVPâ, the Company's new digital music software that allows music libraries to be created in both MP3 and QDesign Music formats. As the first cross-platform digital music system, MVP will enable both Mac and Windows users the ability to playback all popular digital audio formats (CD Audio, AIFF, WAV, and others), as well as, most digital music videos available on the Web and enhanced CDs.
"There is natural synergy between e.Digital's portable music player design and our support of the QDesign Music playback," said Fred Falk, president and CEO of e.Digital. "Adding QDesign Music support and the MVP software to our music player design opens up the market for Mac users as well as Windows-based PC users. e.Digital is taking the lead in incorporating the best possible technology in portable Internet music players, and will continue to offer the most valuable options to its OEM customers."
According to Mandy Chan, Vice President of Business Development at QDesign, "Portable Internet music players are instrumental in advancing digital music because they bring a new level of flexibility to how and where music can be enjoyed. With audio encoded in the QDesign Music format, we enable consumers to store the most amount of audio on their players at the highest possible audio quality. We are very excited to be working with e.Digital to bring QDesign Music playback to next generation portable audio players."
e.Digital's portable Internet music player reference design is available for license by consumer electronics manufacturers and other private label OEM's. Full-featured options, multiple music codec support (including Lucent Technologies' EPAC?), security software support (including Liquid Audio's SP3 secure portable player platform), and custom product design are available
The company also offers complete industrial design, engineering services, and manufacturing services.
QDesign Corporation has been delivering state-of-the art audio solutions to the broadcast and new media industries since 1995. The Company introduced the world's first MPEG-2 stereo compression software in October 1996, making available for the first time, high-quality, high-performance MPEG sound to all broadcast and studio professionals. In January 1998, QDesign launched the QDesign Music Codec as the Internet audio solution for QuickTime 3, bringing to audio and multimedia professionals "Audio Product of the Year" for 1999 according to New Media Magazine. This past summer, the Company announced its own implementation of MP3, the most popular format for on-line music download. QDesign's codec technologies appear in hardware processors, digital audio production, automation and distribution systems as well as professional and consumer multimedia software. |
