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Non-Tech : The New Iomega '2000' Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sheila rothstein who wrote (1253)	6/30/1999 4:11:00 PM
From: Philip J. Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5023

634,700 share trade at 4 15/16 at the close. hmmmm... Could this be short covering? Lipo

To: sheila rothstein who wrote (1253)	6/30/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5023

Those expecting the widespread use of Iomega disks in MP3 are in for a big disappointment. The SDMI initiative has recently introduced the use of DSP-based music file identification through a digital watermark that is inaudible-- the identifiation of a particluar disk serial number is not needed. According to SDMI, One will download the file to your hard drive, where the MP3 player can than transfer the file through a cradle interface. You hard drive will be a library of hundreds if not thousands of songs, and you can load them into the DSP-compliant MP3 player in any order you want and take them on the go. With the cost of hard drives currently priced at 20gigs for $200 (and falling) it's a no-brainer. You can keep more than 5000 MP3 songs on a hard drive this big. This DSP-based solution, that is being settled on as we speak by the Music Industry, is available on the associated Texas Instruments and Sandisk news release. biz.yahoo.com Iomega's products are not needed, and are just an extra step in the process. The SDMI initiative is to be officially ratified by the Music Industry July 7-9. Once again, it is a DSP-based solution using a digital watermark in each song file. Iomega loses yet again.