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To: chris431 who wrote (3374)	4/29/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

If anyone is interested in a synopsis of EDIG technology, this was published on the RB thread by haiyaku. She is very knowledgeable in this technology. Enjoy. By: haiyaku Reply To: None Thursday, 29 Apr 1999 at 8:21 PM EDT Post # of 9774 A brief summary of Edig and the Industry (major revision+1) The key is understanding Edig's potential is in their multi-patented Micro OS (operating system software.) The full Micro OS stores and manipulates compressed voice, music, image or video and conventional file data. It supports flash memory, miniature (such as IBM's new 340 meg mini drive) and IDE hard disks. It operates with wired, wireless and satellite. The range of potential products is tremendous: from music players to digital cameras to cellular phones, to name a few. It's beauty lies in the fact that it takes very little memory and has the capacity to support an unlimited number of files, directories, and subdirectories. It is scalable. Micro OS Audio is a version of the above system specifically adapted for use with large music files. MicroOS Audio is the version that is incorporated into the Lucent portable music player. IMHO, it's only a matter of time before we see Micro OS Video patent news. News of contracts and further affiliations will come quickly. Until then, stay focused on the present...which is music and speech to text/text to speech (tts/stt) mobile enterprise systems. These two emerging industries alone will propel this company into the big time should it's operating system receive wide-spread adoption. Will it? I think yes. Look at the facts: 1. Intel has commissioned 100 tts/stt prototypes from Edig due this summer. According to Edig's statement, Intel will market the product(s) to their OEM customers. 2. IBM (plus Intel, Edig, Phillips, Olympus, Norcom and Dictaphone thru the newly formed VoiceTimes group) have combined to develop a mobile enterprise standard. Which of this group has the superior operating system? (re-read item #1) 3. Lucent has based the success of their EPAC compression algorithm on Edig's OS. 4. Texas Instruments has put their hat into the Edig ring with it's new digital signal processor (dsp). This is a whole new class of dsp...details are to be made public the first week of May. IMHO, Motorola is in the ring too, but TI is ready to produce the chips now and they are in first. Microsoft is dancing as fast as they can but only to their own tune..which will (imho) kill it as a contender. By numerous public indications, they have ticked off the industry on whole and their first-generation prototype player apparently crashes and has numerous limitations. Edig is in the middle of a war and that war involves intellectual property. MP3 is a system which has gained press and popularity from the "information wants to be free" group. These folks don't quite know what they are asking for..but it will, in the end run, be their downfall. What is at stake here, has great consequence. If music were to go to free distribution (and I adamantly believe it cannot and will not in the long run) then all other intellectual property (copyrights) will fall like dominoes. That means books, movies, and other. (Hackers are already jacking first-run movies and downloading them to pass around.) Even the journalists who advocate MP3 wouldn't have copyright status on their "intellectual" property. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and it's SDMI (Secure Music Digital Initiative) arm have banded together to combat MP3 or bring it into the fold of controlled, secure music distribution. MP3 is trying to comply; they are a member of SDMI. Those who have financed or backed MP3 are firing the first salvos...trying to maintain their momentum....they are in trouble. Where Edig, Lucent and Texas Instruments reign supreme is their scalability, their os, their ability to do wired, wireless and satellite, and their security system. MP3 cannot do that. IMHO MP3 and even Microsoft will eventually come to E.Digital. The patents, the surrounding technology, the industry tells us that. The haste with which the industry has to move leads me to believe that news will come in rapid fire starting next week. May will be a heavy news month...Christmas in May for us. The industry has stated they want music players out for Xmas,,, and they need lead time for announcements. Also, remember that Edig is to supply Intel with 100 sst/tts prototypes by June/July...... The music player is just part of Edig's grasp on the emerging peripheral market. I believe it was Andy Grove of Intel that said that this market will far surpass the number of pc's sold to date. I also am of the understanding that this will be the fastest ramp-up in history. Edig is right in the middle of it all with the patents. News will come hard and fast (with a few surprises we haven't thought of yet, I am sure!) Think global! Hai (pardon me if this ain't too cohesive..it's a work in progress)