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To: Walter Morton who wrote (8524)	11/18/1999 1:53:00 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

I cant read Japanese Walter... ;) Is there any mention of any protected mp3 format? cAPSLOCK

To: Walter Morton who wrote (8524)	11/18/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: Burt Roger	Respond to of 18366

Hey Walter you old super sleuth. This site you've referred us to: www13.iodata.co.jp Is this another one of your great and irrelevant moments at chasing your tail? Have you become a shareholder yet?

To: Walter Morton who wrote (8524)	11/19/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Jeffrey D	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

Walter, your wait is over. eDigital mentioned in this USA Today article from today {11/18/99} page 9 of the Life section. I said they were mentioned...and nothing more. Jeff << usatoday.com More MP3 toys bringing digital music to your ears How much of a fuss should folks make about downloading digital music off the Internet? 'It's one of the biggest opportunities since The Beatles introduced a new drummer,' quips Douglas Rasor, a marketing executive with Texas Instruments. TI makes chips for 19 digital music devices that can play MP3 files and other musical formats. The company estimates that 600,000 to 700,000 players will be sold this holiday season, and as many as 3 million a year from now. At Comdex, music mavens could check out Creative Labs' Nomad II, Diamond Multimedia's Rio 500, RCA's Lyra and Philips' Rush, among others. As with the Sony's Walkman players, you'll start to see a wide variety of designs. One model from Kobelco, set for sale in Japan in June, resembles a credit card (there are no plans for a U.S. version). A prototype player from e.Digital, meanwhile, looks like a hockey puck. I-Jam Multimedia's portable MP3 player ($299) comes in blue, red, yellow and other colors. You can use a USB port to pull music from Windows PCs or Macintoshes. What's more, folks won't necessarily need to buy a dedicated music player. The Visor PDA from Handspring, not on the show floor, includes a slot for a future MP3 module. Hewlett-Packard's $499 Jornada Palm-size PC also can handle MP3 files. And Ericsson showed off a plug-in module slated for the company's T28 World GSM phone, due in February or March (no price yet). Other developments: * Sony VAIO Music Clip. You may need a pocket protector for this slick, cigar-shape black or silver device. It can download up to two hours of music on 64 megabytes of built-in flash memory -- you'll get about five hours of playback on a single AA battery. You can download music in MP3 or other file formats (such as ATRAC3 and WAV) through a USB cable. The device also adheres to industry standards for protecting the digital copyright. It comes with software that helps you record from CDs and arrange music collections on a computer. To get the acoustics the way you like them, Music Clip features a built-in equalizer with three memory presets (rock, pop, jazz). Available in January; $299. * Sharp Internet MiniDisc Bundle. The MD-MT15 MD Player/Recorder lets you download and create personalized Web audio playlists using the Voquette Media Manager. And you can arrange for the Media Manager program to automatically organize and pull broadcasts, not just music, off the Web at any time. Available now; $249.