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To: Ausdauer who wrote (20244)	5/4/2001 7:25:44 AM
From: orkrious	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus, I assume you saw Photopoint is moving to a subscription basis. Are there any alternatives? Jay

To: Ausdauer who wrote (20244)	5/4/2001 9:23:35 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

RE: Olympus and Lexar--If they design a controller to allow much greater capacity with a SmartMedia card, what do they gain? Put another way, if there were a 256 mb SmartMedia card for an Olympus camera, would it be any better or cheaper than a 256 mb Compact Flash card? Seems to me that there would have to be a substantial improvement in performance or a much lower price to warrant such a design. Would they build a new controller into the camera rather than the flash card in order to keep the price of the flash card down? I don't have the technical background to determine which would be the best alternative, but it seems to me there are some advantages in terms of compatibility for keeping the controller and the flash memory part of the chip together. If so, what is the advantage of SmartMedia? Olympus appears to have an improved CCD in their $2000 digital single lens reflex camera, which has a resolution of 4 mpixels. As a practical matter, if one makes high resolution photos on this camera, one would need at least 128 mb card storage, and preferably 256 or 512 mb. Regarding other digital camera manufacturers, it appears that Sanyo is among the largest volume producers of cameras sold under different labels.

To: Ausdauer who wrote (20244)	5/4/2001 12:33:16 PM
From: Jason Rooks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

Aus, Practically speaking, doesn't seem like SNDK "won" very much from its lawsuit with Lexar if Sony is paying royalties to Lexar (although the amount is small) and if <<Patent Licenses $3 to $4 million in license royalty revenues in Q2 of 2001 (mostly Samsung)conservatively $12 million in total royalty revenues in all of 2001 (maybe $16 to $17 million)>> Aren't those annual licensing revenue numbers similar to SNDK's?? J