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To: Walter Morton who wrote (7175)	8/10/1999 7:53:00 PM
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Here's another update from RB on the Music Expo going on in NYC: ragingbull.com By: juanproano Reply To: None Tuesday, 10 Aug 1999 at 7:31 PM EDT Post # of 56699 MORE NEWS FROM INTERACTIVE MUSIC XPO Today I took time to visit the Interactive Music Xpo and listen in on a workshop given by Lucent. The speakers being Tim Fink (CTO), Rachael Walkden, Joyce Eastman and someone else named Ben. They all are heading up Epac group within Lucent. As I stated earlier their are a feww issues I want to revisit. Please understand that I am investor just like everyone on this board. I tried to listen with an objective ear and am trying to report as best I can. It was however a Lucent workshop and not an EDIG workshop. I will say I was surprised to see how many EDIG investors were their listening just as I was... Their were at least 60 people in the audience. Again, this is information is what was covered in the workshop in a presentation format and in a question and answer format. I first want to cover a few question that were proposed earlier in my absence. EPAC player will be free to end users; TINROAD was correct in saying the decoder will be free to end-users. Their are licensing fees involved on the encoder side. So a company who would like to use EPAC would have to pay a fee to encode their audio files in this format. Lucent also stated that they have signed licensing agreements with such parties but are not able to disclose them as of yet. Therefore I beleive more news releases will be soon to follow (on the lucent side), I am not sure as to what time frame they have in mind. They did make it a point to state that their will be player out by Christmas. They did not mention who would be the manufacturer but were keen on EDIG. It seems I missed all of the fun yesterday. It seems Falk was their yesterday and presented a prototype of the player they have in mind to use. Again a major point they were driving home is the fact that it was designed by some 18 year old and it is fantastic. I guess what they are trying to say is that they are in touch with the specific group that will buy this player. So there is a prototype out their and it is supposedly wonderful, I didn't see it but the way they (Lucent) talked about it, it seems like a sure thing. Lydstrom; has this great player available. We heard about their deal but not much more. It seems this audio componet will be able to store up to 5,000 songs at once! Then it can play 3 streams at once! So you could be in your home office listening to Bach, your soon can be in his room listening to Rock, and your Wife could be listening to Jazz in the kitchen. Really cool huh... More importantly is the fact that they are trying to move beyond the portable areana and provide people with an option. They were trying to drive home the fact that EPAC sounds as good as CD quality stuff. And to the average person it does. Most of the people their were able to tell the difference (sometimes). But remeber they were music professionals. And in fact they had to admit that it sounded pretty dam good. Oh, we were listening to the player from a laptop that was connected to 2 big speakers (14 inch at least). Again, the home audion pitch, and not just home audio but car, stero, etc... EPAC supports DSP which is multi-platform. It could play AAC, MP3, MP4, anything. Which does not matter to us because EDIG player provides the OS and Player as an OEM. So we can't lose. Lucent will have a website dedicated specfically for EPAC. No time frame as to when it might launch but it will be big. EPAC will support Real and Streaming technologies so you can play right from the web. Band width will be an issue but not in the future when broadband becomes available. It is just great that they can support these things today. Lucent says that they have been playing it low key on purpose. They have been listening to everyone's needs and plan to make a bigger push now. They realize that their window to compete with MP3 is closing and are amking moves to bring it to the forefront of the industry. They also say that major announcements have been on hold since final SDMI standards had not been made. You could expect announcements with the finalaztion of SDMI announcements and partnerships from a hardware and software perspective. And last but not least, EPAC sounded great. As I said they did fool some of the music professionals in the audience. It was a great feeling to know that it is that strong a product. Again imagine yourself in front of two huge speakers up to loudest setting. MP3 would falter at those levels of listening enjoyment. That is the key, Quality. Now, I did receive a form to receive a software evaluation for EPAC. There is an agreement you must sign and mail or fax to lucent. The details are below. Lucent Technologies Inc. Rachel Walkden/Joyce Eastman New Ventures Group Room 2F104 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill 07974 I also picked a brochure on EPAC from lucent. It pictures how an EPAC player as part of Real Audio, Celestial Audio Library and Java Player.