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To: IdiotJed who wrote (81)	4/11/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: Winzer	Respond to of 776

EXCELLENT POINTS in your last two paragraphs. I had a Gen-X friend who recently showed me his MP3 collection. Needless to say it was quite impressive. The recording industry is panicing about being by-passed. I also saw a show recently on the MP3 Player technology and the guy interviewed was selling all he could produce. The only positive is that the mp3 craze may take a little while longer to take a foothold. Lets hope by then our profits would be locked in. I'm not sure of the timing of the mp3 replacing CD's; however I still see a CD market for many years to come and my gut feeling is that the generation X'ers would be heavy into mp3 but not the old fogies like me and Buckey. Cheers Winzer

To: IdiotJed who wrote (81)	4/11/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: Buckey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 776

There must be two blue moons hanging overthe CDN exchanges because there were all kinds of crazy activities going on. I do have a theory that does not directly apply to CBX. CBX is buying a real company with real stores and an online presence. The others are running on complete HYPE - SKG - LMAO completely. There were a few others this week that did 5 and bigger baggers on NOTHING - Ithink we may have some big money that is normally behind the Nasdaq craziness. There are groups of people including offshore traders in the islands that create hysteria simply on numbers. Look at some of these - SKG 150MM shares GEM - 100MM - Large floats are much easier to manipulate. SBX - I am hanging on to mine but I am verysuspicious of the rest of the activity.

To: IdiotJed who wrote (81)	4/11/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: mappingworld	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 776

RE MP3's. I think th music business is simply crying wolf over the mp3's. Yes you and I and other people who have a significant amount of computer expertise and time can wait and wait to download mp3's from internet servers (most people don't have adsl or cable; as a matter of fact the majority of canadians don't have internet home access I believe). Sure. But most people have little knowledge re navigating win95/98 or mac 8.0 or 8.5 (like setting their blinking 12:00 on the videomachine), let alone trying to figure out how to gt a single track or multiple tracks in mp3 form. Then figuring out what kind of application to download to listen to the damn things. And for now you're pretty much restricted to listening to mp3's on your computer speakers. For the average consumer this is not going to work whatsoever. CD's are going to be around for a while to come. I think mp3's will simply function as another music vehicle, right along CD's and cassettes. IMHO (of course). IMO if and when the contours of the deal between cdplus and sbx become less hazy and more sure, SBX is going to be worth several dollars ($6.00?). And this can happen pretty quickly too. Olga (long sbx)