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To: Tinroad who wrote (7186)	8/11/1999 7:56:00 AM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

GREAT POST TINROAD. Looks to me as though alot of the missing dots are falling into place. Can't wait for Haiyaku's report. This could be huge. What's even better is that music will only be a small portion of little EDIG's involvement in the marketplace. The EDIG gorilla is coming.... I can hear it. GRRRRRRRRRRRR! MicroOSMicroOSMicroOSMicroOSMicroOSMicroOSMicroOSMicroOS

To: Tinroad who wrote (7186)	8/11/1999 9:35:00 AM
From: MaryinRed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

IMX Report: (hard to add much but here goes...smile) Key Points: Lucent wants "world domination" with EPAC being the highest standard for music compression sound quality. Lucent has been flying "below the radar range" while it talks with engineers, musicians and OEM's to build the best possible product. OEM's have been waiting for the SDMI standards to be set before making any announcements. Lucent stated that EPAC will be used in home media systems (Lystrom is working on that now), but that the plan is to also have music downloading capability at kiosks and at record stores (a custom trak type of system). Lucent is not planning to charge people for the "Key" when they go through the Lucent domain (the whole watermarking/registration thing). Lucent will open their domain soon, they simply did not want to open it until people could actually use it. Lucent will provide anyone with an evaluation copy of the software to play with/test. Just contact Joyce Eastman and fill out some paperwork. Lucent has several levels of compression including a compression technology that "slides" or changes depending on the music being compressed...(meaning it switches from one compression level to another...within the same song). I am not a techie...but this sounded interesting. At the actual show...Lucent has a booth set up with two systems. People put on headphones and can choose music snippets to listen to.. a cd snippet and an EPAC snippet...the idea was to show the listener that it is hard to differentiate the two... I would have been interesting in hearing MP3 vs EPAC, but that was not available. e.digital has done the "reference design" for Lucent, and yes Hai's students participated and designed an initial player prototype....the design(s) were well received by Lucent. I saw one when I was in San Diego and it was very nicely done....reminded me of the IMAC mouse in its compactness with little dials along the lower edge. Two company names that I am not familiar with came up, so I jotted the names down in the interest of "filling in the dots I will mention them: Celestial and Sonic. EPAC can run with a special Java program that instantaneously downloads itself, then removes itself. Download from audio library with EPAC secure DLL, Streaming with a web browser using the Java Player, and Streaming with web browser with the Real Player G2 plugin. Joyce Eastman is lovely, looks like a singer...vs a Geek techie...about 5'8" or so, long shiney brown hair, great smile...slender and very enthusiastic...about the product. She is very passionate about the product. Rachel Walchen is attractive, tall, blond, looks very studious with her glasses and has a British accent. She gave the main presentation from a Powerpoint program. Tim Fink(CTO: another technical person) is a young man, about 5'9" dark hair, clean cut and very knowledgeable. He answered questions as they came from the audience. I was personally thrilled to hear there will be several EPAC players out for Christmas. smile.....Mary