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To: R. Bond who wrote (3675)	5/5/1999 9:31:00 AM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

Universal, a Los Angeles-based subsidiary of the Seagram Company, said it was working with the Intertrust Technologies Corporation of Sunnyvale, Calif., to develop software to securely store, sell and distribute Universal's music online. Universal said it planned to have a pilot version running by the end of the year and that the success of the pilot would determine the rollout of the full service. I would think alot of companies will want our MicroOS file management system in their handhelds (especially if it has removable flash) in order to reduce time to market and increase flexibility when choosing the best compression technology for their device, including Universals. Just my two cents. Bob Looks like we will be opening lower today.

To: R. Bond who wrote (3675)	5/5/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: cAPSLOCK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

I doubt that there is any engineer in the music business on this planet that would be interested in a format that takes "...hours to encode a 5-minute song..." And certainly not the record company paying for the studio time. Indeed. But on the other hand, people who will make part of their living encoding audio will be willing to buy hardware designed to do it in a much faster timeframe. This hardware already exists for MPEG audio, and I will not be surprised to see boxes that start to allow for multiple formats. Also, encoding times will come down as the process is refined. It used to take an hour on a fast computer to encode an .mp3, whereas I can now do it faster than I can play the song in realtime. cAPSLOCK