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Technology Stocks : WDC/Sandisk Corporation -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ausdauer who wrote (9971)	3/31/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Binx Bolling	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

"Sony has already had to asks user who experience problems with faulty DVD playback to return their PlayStation Memory Card." theregister.co.uk

To: Ausdauer who wrote (9971)	3/31/2000 7:11:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus - Have I missed something? Has the Court rules on anything? Best regards, L

To: Ausdauer who wrote (9971)	3/31/2000 8:23:00 PM
From: Rocky Reid	Respond to of 60323

Cell-Phone MP3 and MMC The following article is interesting but confusing and points to the fact that MMC MP3 playerz are turning up everywhere. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com ...the user will be able to obtain the encrypted musical content from a variety of sources, including downloading from music servers via telecommunications, by copying encrypted content from another user, or picking up new tracks from compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), or music vending machines at train stations or convenience stores. Sanyo has already developed mobile phone and PHS terminal prototypes capable of playing back musical content. ... ...To provide copyright protection for distributed musical content, Hitachi developed a new compact memory card, based on the MultiMediaCard (MMC) with Sanyo and Infineon Technologies AG of Germany (Where's Sandisk?). The firms proposed the specifications for the new design, called the Secure MultiMedia Card (Secure MMC), to the MultiMediaCard Association (MMCA) in November 1999. The MMCA plans to formulate the final specifications for the Secure MMC in March. The Secure MMC has an extended instruction set, supporting various functions related to data encryption/decryption and copyright protection. In addition, it is provided with six extra leads, making possible parallel write in byte units, and a peak write speed of 20 Mbytes/s. The leads already used by MMC-compliant equipment, however, will remain untouched to assure compatibility, and shape and thickness are identical. As a result, no physical design changes are needed in equipment, which means that it will be much easier to win support for the new proposal from equipment manufacturers. The SD Memory Card, from a group led by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, Ltd, is another compact memory card proposal supporting copyright protection, and is also upwardly compatible with the MMC. The SD memory card group, which had been running into standardization problems at the MMCA, planed to form its own consortium in January. At the present, no plans have been announced to integrate the two standards, and industry observers expect the confusion to deepen. ----------- Is Sandisk really this far below the radar of reporters and Wall Street insiders? I hope so, but I also hope they won't be for long. If so, SNDK is still a very good BUY right now. -Rocky