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To: Walter Morton who wrote (11587)	3/17/2000 4:22:00 PM
From: Kerry Sakolsky	Respond to of 18366

Walter, The MP2000 is Maycom's 3rd generation player which uses EDIG's reference design. Usually companies license technology for a reason. The question you must ask yourself is whether or not you still wish to purchase EDIG at .03. Lord knows you've waited long enough. Have a great weekend, Kerry

To: Walter Morton who wrote (11587)	3/17/2000 4:24:00 PM
From: sdr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

walter - please - the EDIG and Maycom release on 1/5/00 said production was scheduled for late summer 2000 - it's now apparently APRIL 2000 and guess was the proposed player was "dubbed MP2000" - I'm sure you can notice the similarity in the name - SDR

To: Walter Morton who wrote (11587)	3/17/2000 11:23:00 PM
From: bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

Well Walter, I won't clutter up the board with repetitive posts, but I will insert a link to the joint PR between Maycom and EDIG so you can study it when you have some time. I believe it says the MP2000 is the player that will contain our reference design and was originally scheduled for production late summer of 2000. The email from Maycom stated production is now slated for April of 2000, a difference of a few months or so. As far as multi-codec players go I don't yet see any that are truly multi-codec - they all transcode into AAC, WMA, or MP3. You might find one that is able to support two codecs natively but only one DRM. It is questionable as to whether or not soft watermarking will survive the transcoding process but I'll leave that debate to the more technically astute. Yes Walter, Maycom had sales of "only" $30 million last year. So what is your point... They produced two MP3 players with little or no content available from the major labels. If you don't think the future of digital distribution of music is viable I suggest you invest your money elsewhere and leave it to folks who think its future is bright and see the future of downloadable music as a potent economic force. Now here's that link I promised... edig.com Cheers.