From CES: Comp engineering
Live From CES (Treo/DataPlay-Volan/DataPlay-Samsung)
1) Treo -> HyTech Inc. has a smallish booth, but keep in mind that there
is a good city block of Personal Audio Devices at CES. Sure there are some
players the size of astick of gum, but who really wants 30 minutes of MP3
quality music when you canhave over 100 TIMES more in higher quality without
muchsize, weight, or money added. Treo isreally going to kill this segment
of the market.
2) Volan Designs DataPlay -> Besides the Orbit e.Digital musicplayer,
Volan has also designed a prototype Palm type device with a DataPlayslot. It
is my hunch that this devicemust have e.Digital power inside also. By the
way, DataPlay is WAY ahead of the curve when it comes tohelpers. There are
10 of the finest womenin the whole show here. DataPlay isworking with Rio,
and it definitely has a top quality presentation here. It is such an honor
for e.Digital to bepartnered with these organizations. Thereal message with
this technology is that you get all an artist’s music onthese discs and all
you do is buy a key when you want to unlock theinformation. DataPlay
representative Italked to was previously in management in Columbia Records
and came to DataPlayto help start the company. So, I sayyou can add Columbia
to the list with BMG and EMI. There will be no ramp up, just a big fat
BOO-YA in October. Devices will trickle out, but that is ituntil October.
Good thing for us isthat we get paid when devices are contracted, not sold.
EastTech has a license to produce the Orbit,but will not be the only company
to produce Orbit type models. Samsung is also, it is not an
exclusiveliscense.
3) Samsung DataPlay -> Basically the same model as the VolanOrbit, but in
black. When you start upthe player, it reads powered by e.Digital!
4) Toshiba -> Heading there now....more later
5) Notes: e.Digital hasreally covered its bases. Treo coversthe market
segment that is young and has their music already digital and iscomfortable
downloading music via broadband Internet. For the new music buyer, DataPlay
music discs are the bomb. Getting a half gig of music at a time issweet.
Flash music players may justfall by the wayside unless memory boosts
dramatically. Basically, you can boil it down to this whenit comes to
DataPlay….if it plays music, we are in it. The DataPlay operating system
they make canhandle one feature like cameras and ebooks, but when it comes to
music (all thecodecs and DRMs) require e.Digital Technology. Also, one entire
movie fits onto a DataPlay disc in MP4. DataPlay is overwhelmed by the buzz
they aregetting. The rest of CES is dieing downand their booth is still
buzzing. WendyRavenel is a rep on hand at the DataPlay booth. She is
exhausted from the backend work they have been doing atEDIG and is blown away
by the amount of exposure and questioning they aregetting.
6) Intel -> Intel has a voice reader that scans text and readsaloud. No
mention of EDIG due to NDA,but we completed in summer the job with them and
suddenly it appears……gofigure.
Packet Video -> Way ahead of the curve, embedded onTexas Instruments DSP, in
trails in 16 countries (the rep couldn’t comment onwhich), only thing missing
is 3G infrastructure to keep us from full motionvideo wrist watches.
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