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To: CatLady who wrote (10581)	2/2/2000 10:57:00 AM
From: MaryinRed	Respond to of 18366

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To: CatLady who wrote (10581)	2/2/2000 10:58:00 AM
From: bob	Respond to of 18366

CatLady, Maybe this repost will help you understand wether or not a portable player for EPAC will need the MicroOS. By: balrog Reply To: None Wednesday, 2 Feb 2000 at 10:10 AM EST Post # of 196021 Super Post.. Everyone read this in reference to EPAC and the Madison Project. This was written by JimC1997 last Oct. I don't remember reading it the first time. It's post # 82589 From JimC1997: On September 27, 1999 I had a phone conversation with Joyce Eastman, Manager of the New Ventures Group at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies), who is responsible for EPAC development and marketing. In our discussion she said that she believes that any portable player would require a programmable DSP to use EPAC. The DSP would probably need MicroOS (or an equivalent) to operate properly. There are some work-arounds (firmware or embedded control systems) but they are more complicated than simply using MicroOS. She said that e.Digital has been marketing its reference hardware design using Texas Instruments C5410 DSP. Contacting the project manager for TI might give more light on the subject, but it appears that any player using EPAC is very likely to need MicroOS. She also said that TI was going to launch an advertising campaign soon featuring their (Texas Instruments) capabilities in the music player business. Consequently, I would presume that the current commercials are featuring players which utilize EPAC and strongly suspect that e.Digital is involved in their design and/or production. On an unrelated point, she gave me more background on the "beauty contest" that EPAC won in the Madison Project. Lucent's EPAC was pitted against five other codecs and judged on three criteria by the IBM and music label group. The criteria were 1. Quality of the music 2. Responsiveness of the team 3. Licensing terms. The music labels were strongly supportive of EPAC based upon these criteria and it was decided to use only EPAC in the project. Many posters have made the point that content is key to the introduction of portable music players. If the music labels have selected EPAC on these core business criteria, which I would translate as 1. Consumer appeal 2. Operating flexibility 3. Competitive pricing then the likelihood of substantial EPAC content becoming available soon is very high. Remember, in order to participate in the Madison Project the music labels must encode their music libraries into EPAC. Jim