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To: Jon Tara who wrote (11817)	3/28/2000 1:34:00 PM
From: Gary Mohilner	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 18366

Jon, you just said it all, the manufacturer will provide the software that allows the DSP to work. What software do you think they'll use. Can you name one manufacturer that has software that will work on all current and future codecs. Sure, maybe some manufacturers have the wherewithall to do it, they have to be very careful not to use any of eDig's patents, and they'll probably use more then 8K of ram, but they may get it done. It could cost them many millions, and probably won't be as good as eDig, because it can't use their patents, but they could do it. The point is why would they. Would you reinvent the wheel. I don't think so. I believe eDig will be inside most, if not all, the new devices that are truly built to play, not translate, multiple formats. I don't know that you'll ever see a label, eDig Inside, but it'll be there, and the manufacturer or marketer of the product will be paying eDig for it. Gary

To: Jon Tara who wrote (11817)	3/28/2000 1:45:00 PM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Nice work Jon, Shame all these fishies are swiming in the dark right into the sharks mouth... You should learn at least the basics of the technology before spouting-off acronyms that you don't understand. It can function as an encoder/decoder, or as many other things, with appropriate software. That software can be supplied by EDIG or it can be supplied by somebody else, most likely the manufactuer of the device it's embedded in. Nobody "needs" EDIG to make a DSP work with multiple encoders/decoders.

To: Jon Tara who wrote (11817)	3/28/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: Joe Lyddon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Jon & all: It seems to me that EDIG's MicroOs is patented primarily on the way it handles Flash memory... It also shines (as a by-product) in the ease in which it can be programmed to handle multiple codecs in processing the output of the DSP. The DSP is used primarily as an input device to MicroOs which, in turn, processes the data storing it in Flash memory or other devices such as IBM's micro drive, and then accessing the stored data, processing it for audio/video output as required... all very efficiently. Adding other codecs is a piece-of-cake... I tried to explain it in simple terms... without confusing everyone even more. I thought everyone here knew what the DSP was in relation to MicroOs... OK? Thank you, Joe