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To: Joe Knoll who wrote (3682)	9/15/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: Urlman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

With Beastie Boy's OFFICIAL release of songs in the MP3 format over the net just recently, Diamond couldn't have found a better time to relase the Rio.... The market acceptance of MP3s is gaining momentum beastieboys.com

To: Joe Knoll who wrote (3682)	9/15/1998 10:58:00 PM
From: Scott Moore	Respond to of 4679

This is bad news for Kingston, Viking, Sandisk and others. I don't care if these flash cards are a different format than the current PCMCIA ATA 3.3 and 5volt cards. If DIMD can hook up with someone and offer these cards at basically 60% of what current retail on current ATA cards, then these old format ATA cards prices will plummet. This is good for camera memory users like me, but these memory card companies will be screaming wholly murder and will lose the last big margin product they've been producing. Don't tell me this is apples and oranges, because even if they are slightly different from the current flash ATA cards, there still will be a sympathetic pricing pressure effect. Currently $80 for a 16Meg compact card is a steal and $100 for a full size PCMCIA 16Meg card is also a steal. I want to know who is producing these memory cards?

To: Joe Knoll who wrote (3682)	9/17/1998 3:30:00 AM
From: Scott Moore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

DIMD needs to partner-up with SONY/AIWA, Panasonic or Sanyo on this MP3 flash card format. I just don't see them having the horsepower to push any widespread adoption by themselves. At that point, how much of the farm will they need to give up? Maybe eventually after the format becomes as standard DIMD could build a steady licensing stream. But, that is assuming no one bypasses DIMD with a newer higher density product with a twist to make it a different intellectual property.