To: Walter Morton who wrote (5627 ) 6/11/1999 12:18:00 PM From: Walter Morton Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 18366
-----Original Message----- From: Joyce Eastman Griffeth <jeastman@lucent.com> Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:07 AM Subject: RE: EPAC > >Hello Mr. Morton, > >Thank you for your interest in EPAC. Please call me on my direct line at 732-615-"XXXX" and I will be happy to answer your questions. > >Thank you, >Joyce Eastman >Lucent Technologies > >-----Original Message----- > >Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 6:40 AM >To: jeastman@lucent.com >Subject: EPAC > >Hello Ms. Eastman: > >The following partners were mentioned earlier when Lucent decided to >consider getting into the digital music business: > >http://www.mode.net/ >http://www.celestialtechnology.com/ > >However, neither of these Web sites are functional in terms of providing >music or accessing software to provide music. > >Are the companies listed above still considered partners of Lucent in its >digital music business effort? > > >At what time (month, year) do you expect these companies to make their Web >sites useful? More specifically, when will MODE start using EPAC? If MODE >is already using EPAC, please provide a link. > >As of May 21, 1999, the SDMI Secretariat stated that Lucent had not >demonstrated EPAC to the members of the SDMI. When do you expect to >demonstrate EPAC to the members of the SDMI? > >When is Lucent going to let the general public see their newly designed >portable digital music player? There are approximately 16 portable players >on the market already and a new one seems to be in the news every other >week. When is Lucent going to post an artist's rendering of its player on >an HTML document so that the general public may see it? > >Cognicity has been mentioned as the provider of watermarking for Lucent's >music player. However, in this recent article: >http://www.eet.com/story/OEG19990603S0034 Cognicity does not seem to be a >front runner for the DVD-audio watermarking standard. How will this affect >your design decision for the digital music player. How will this affect >Lucent's chances of having its design ideas accepted by SDMI? > >I am aware of the ARIS/Lucent watermarking co-marketing agreement. Will >this make a transition easier if Cognicity's watermarking technology is >replaced by ARIS'? If Blue Spike is selected instead of Cognicity and ARIS >how will this affect Lucent's abilitity to get the portable player to the >market before the holidays? > >I look forward to your response and thank you in advance for the time it may >take to respond in detail. > >Walter Morton >An Independent Investor > I just got off the phone with Joyce Eastman. I need to correct my spelling and I will post her responses. On the telephone, I asked an additional question that is not listed above. I did not record the conversation so I cannot her responses dictate it word for word.