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To: John Curtis who wrote (5687)	6/13/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

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

To: John Curtis who wrote (5687)	6/13/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: chris431	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

"This is because when money is on the line oft-times objectivity is thrown right out the window." Yep. And that's why such people are fodder for scam artists....tell them a big enough story, get them involved, and those being tricked are likely to be the best asset in the short run since they become the strongest defender of what they don't realize is a scam. This is a general comment not at all applicable to EDIG as I don't think EDIG is a scam. Chris