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To: tekboy who wrote (27639)	7/11/2000 3:19:03 AM
From: Dr. Id	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

<deleted> Sorry, I forgot which thread I was on.

To: tekboy who wrote (27639)	7/11/2000 4:39:58 AM
From: Steve 667	Respond to of 54805

tekboy, Why bother with all that when you can get a new DISKMAN for $100 and it will play regular CD's or play a single CD filled with about 5 hrs of your MP3 files? Check this puppy out! zdnet.com This also will solve the problem you mentioned about storage. Each CD will cost you about a dollar, and hold a few hundred MP3 files. 5 times more music than that $150 memory card you have. Not only that, but if I loose or break the CD, it cost me a whole dollar to replace. Small children can't swallow em. (hmm, that can be a disadvantage I guess.) I can swap them with my friends. Are you going to do that with a $150 MMC card. I think not. 5 CD's will cost me $5 and hold 25 hours of music. 5 MMC cards will cost you $750 and hold 5 hours of music. If you want 25 hours of music, a mere $3750 will fix you right up. Yep, real cost effective. Sounds like a no brainer to me! Soon all new CD players (home, car etc.) will all play MP3 files. Yeah, small is nice. Small is cutsie. Small is expensive. What do you think the general public is going to buy? Which do you think Peter Lynch is going to buy? Still, I appreciate you paying the bucks so my SNDK will go up up up, and then I can afford to buy cute and small. Steve 667 P.S. Isn't that Napster great! Just got the soundtrack from The Gladiator. Love it. P.P.S. Ausdauer is going to shoot me.

To: tekboy who wrote (27639)	7/11/2000 7:56:10 AM
From: Ausdauer	Respond to of 54805

RCA Lyra Tekboy, I have always wanted to use a Lynchian approach to promoting SanDisk as an investment, but was fearful of hazing from the thread. I bought an RCA Lyra for my nephew in Sweden. Before I mailed it I tried it out myself. The great thing about the whole kit is the accessories, including the 64MB SanDisk CompactFlash which is very colorfully labelled with the RCA dog and the Victrola. The card alone is about $120-$150 at retail which shows you how inexpensive the device itself is to manufacture. The crucial lesson for me was that security issues will likely prove fatal for encrypted file formats until an easier mechanism for file transfer is discovered (the SDMC may be that system). The reason is that the Lyra converts all your MP3's to MPX format (without altering the original file). The software package that comes with the CF reader must be utilized to tranfer songs. The easiest method is actually just a "drag-n-drop" maneuver from Explorer onto the CF reader icon (as you do with digital photos), but this bypasses the "security" functions -- (I use quotations because MP3's are the prototypic unsecured file format.) -- and renders the files unreadable. This added layer of complexity, albeit very thin, spells trouble for other proprietary compression standards. The MP3 genie is out of the bottle. It is equivalent to the .jpg standard for digital photos: universally accepted and thoroughly adequate for use. The beauty is that the SDMC card slot is backward compatible with MMC. Many chose to disable the security features of their devices and use MP3 together with the MMC. Device manufacturers risk certain failure if MP3 is not supported. Finally, Shawn Fanning was on the cover of Fortune last week. This week it is an improbably close close-up of Bill Gates. I thought that was an interesting contrast, even if it was unintentional. Ausdauer