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I tell ya.. it already exists…. CIA / military – fcc finaly factoring in on sat spectrum and fm-iboc codexecution tuned to acthel/ti e.divx smart chips… info on the/go via e.Digital in Airports – Kiosk E-Com. IFE, WOW
If it works… (Kind Treasure for us) – gota hand it to edig mgmt,
We’ve pushed many of fine design’s – Three years.
And it’s like music, unfinished… the amazing things electricity can do.
Twentieth Century Fox – Has discovered us…
Maybe they’ll put a dp slot on em… na/ hd wireless – Actualy it’s taking kiosks portable… geeeezzzzz – Another First, commercial... museusm's have tried it.
Wonder if it’ll have IBM DRM, built with TI/actel chips. J11 take a Treo apart n look. The MOS 3 and Odyssey should be checked for AMD n transmeta. LoL remember them.
CNBC thoughts have re-occured amongst the now defunct n infamous DP/MTV expectations – But with the IFE and possibilities for the Eclipse and Odyssey I feel good,
Wonder if MOS may get a lil palm help, Hmmmm and PacketVideo.
Where the hell are they… they are hopefully integrating spectrum for such new WLAN broadband Experiences… Boeing! => pps
Give wedigmusic hit’s, wouldn’t a real-time kiosks link be nice… for r/t players – The delivery system it going to be magnificent if we can afford divx choice via usb2 and other data to mobile hd’s.
Good Luck All – n All. e.Digital deserves to merge – only with the best.
e.DigRocks
Emit…
- Warrents Repeating -
(San Diego) E.Digital, a manufacturer of digital entertainment devices,
announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with Aircraft Protective
Systems (APS) to develop a hard drive-based device for playing movies,
music and other in-flight entertainment. The two companies are working
under contract for an undisclosed U.S. airline. Passengers will be able to
reserve one of these units when they book their flight and use it while
waiting for their flight at the gate as well as on board the plane. San
Diego-based E.Digital said the device ought to be completed in the first
quarter of 2003.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021023/230088_1.html
http://www.edig.com
LOV IT
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Now wait... No AMD please no, we b TI. Fugi can do what they want. We be still marketing to both - ubqus
BMI, 12 free to join, believe.
Thou APS is an unknow, interesting per the contract talks n current revenue.
Disney next... remenber we had a MERIT with em on display.
The PR implied to me that A secure content handheld delivery system is there, could it be via broadband.
Or is it we're a going to play it to the industry as another proto-type looking for a home.
niched to aircarriers, n the hospitality ass /andwith other civil apps.
Bill's got note this lil co...
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Good connect gernb ... eom
iBiquity's HD Radio(TM) Technology Licensed to Delphi for Automotive Receivers
Monday October 21, 10:20 am ET
Global Leader in Mobile Electronics to Produce HD Radio Receivers for Automakers
DETROIT, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Convergence 2002 -- iBiquity announced today that Delphi Corp. (NYSE: DPH - News) has licensed HD Radio(TM) technology from iBiquity Digital Corporation, the sole developer of digital AM and FM broadcast IBOC technology. Delphi will integrate iBiquity's HD Radio technology into receivers slated for availability to automakers in the 2004 calendar year timeframe.
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HD Radio technology, iBiquity's In-Band On-Channel (IBOC) solution, enhances AM and FM broadcasts with digital signals that improve listening quality and allow broadcasters and automotive manufacturers the opportunity to provide value-added services, such as automaker provided information specific to the type of vehicle. Additionally, broadcasters can offer consumers station information, song and artist identification, stock and news reports, local traffic and weather alerts and much more. Broadcasters plan to begin transmission of HD Radio signals starting in the 4th quarter of 2002 in 11 markets (Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Seattle).
"Delphi Corporation is a world leader in mobile electronics and transportation components and systems technology and is committed to providing our customers with the latest technological advancements," said Robert Schumacher, business line executive for Wireless Products and Mobile MultiMedia at Delphi Delco Electronics Systems.
iBiquity Digital's HD Radio technology will transform today's radio experience by allowing stations to seamlessly transmit high quality digital audio alongside today's analog-based broadcasts. Additionally, the radio stations will have the ability to deliver wireless data services for a wide variety of consumer applications, including traffic and weather alerts, artist and song information and much more.
"Delphi is a global leader in the automotive industry and we're pleased to have them as a partner in providing HD Radio technology to their customers," said Robert Struble, president and CEO, iBiquity Digital Corporation. "Delphi is continuing their efforts to quickly finalize HD Radio development activities and move forward to deliver many new services to their customers including the elimination of reception issues that plague today's analog broadcasts."
About Delphi Corporation
Multi-national Delphi, with headquarters in Troy, Mich., Paris, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, Brazil, is a world leader in transportation and mobile electronics components and systems technology. The company has approximately 191,000 employees and operates 179 wholly owned manufacturing sites, 42 joint ventures, 53 customer centers and sales offices and 32 technical centers in 41 countries. For more information about Delphi, please visit Delphi's Virtual Press Room, at www.delphi.com/media.
About iBiquity Digital Corporation
iBiquity Digital is the sole developer and licenser of HD Radio technology in the U.S., which will transform today's analog radio to digital, enabling radically upgraded sound and new wireless data services. The company's investors include 15 of the nation's top radio broadcasters, including ABC, Clear Channel and Viacom; leading financial institutions, such as J.P. Morgan Partners, Pequot Capital and J&W Seligman; and strategic partners Ford Motor Company, Harris, Lucent, Texas Instruments and Visteon. iBiquity Digital is a privately held company with operations in Columbia, MD, Detroit, MI, Redwood City, CA and Warren, NJ.
I would take Note -
SAN DIEGO, Mar 6, 2002 - e.Digital to Design, Develop, Manufacture, and Deliver Eclipse-Branded
Products for Automotive Infotainment and Telematics Systems. Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten automotive audio and infotainment products and technology received prestigious Audio Sound Grand Prix Awards in 2000 and 2001. Eclipse is
the fastest growing brand in the car stereo world.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=294523
From the amended S3 - Also in March 2002, we announced that we had entered into a Development and Manufacturing Agreement with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten, a car stereo company. Under the agreement, e.Digital will receive NRE fees for design and development services, as well as revenues for the manufacture and delivery of Eclipse-branded audio products. Specifically, the agreement provides that e.Digital will provide Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten with engineering services to integrate file management and compressed audio management technology designed by e.Digital into an advanced automotive audio system. Eclipse refers to their automotive audio system as an "infotainment" platform because it includes not only a radio and CD Player, but also may -
(i) connect wirelessly to the Internet to download music or other data,
(ii) store, organize, retrieve, and play back data, including digital audio files, from a hard disk drive,
(iii) connect wirelessly to a user's home personal computer while parked in the driveway for purposes of downloading and/or uploading music or other information,
(iv) record radio signals to a built-in hard disk drive as they are received and
(v) recognize the driver's voice commands to perform a variety of operations.
Prior to entering into the Development and Manufacturing Agreement, we had collaborated with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten for several months to develop and deliver state-of-the-art automotive OEM and aftermarket infotainment systems integrating the latest digital audio, voice recognition, data storage, video, and wireless Internet technologies for sale under the Eclipse brand name. The first system was unveiled at the 2002 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas January 8 -- 11.
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TI is with IBOC-DigitalRadio. Agere/Lucent is with Sirrus/XM-DR. Both set to ePAC/tPAC/AAC... Kinda a win win for us :)
March 13 - 01 in Hannover, Germany, Eureka DAB Solution Powers Breakthrough DAB Radio Product for Maycom A low cost Eureka digital audio broadcast (DAB) radio receiver solution from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) NYSE: TXN) has enabled the industry's first portable DAB radio for Korea-based Maycom Co., Ltd. TI's digital baseband and analog chipset powers the unique DAB radio and will be used in future Maycom digital radio products
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/newsletter/news/sc02030.htm
Automotive Business - From Jan. 01 Letter from President.
We were pleased to announce last week an automotive product developed and designed through our collaboration with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten. The Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten automotive product (MP-3 Changer) introduced at CES represents the first automotive system incorporating e.Digital’s MicroOS and VoiceNavTM technologies. In addition to the design shown at the Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten booth, e.Digital demonstrated an advanced prototype of the product utilizing a beta version of its MicroOS 3.0 which enables music files to be remotely transferred from a PC to the player via 802.11 wireless protocol.
The Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten product is the first of several major opportunities for our technology to be included in next-generation automotive infotainment systems. Infotainment systems are part of the automotive telematics market, which is expected to be worth over $1.1 billion in 2002, and projected to grow 16-fold by 2006. (Telematics Research Group). There is significant interest among several automotive electronics manufacturers and suppliers in e.Digital’s digital data management and wireless infotainment solutions. Automotive infotainment and telematics applications are expected to generate substantial licensing, NRE fees, and royalties for your Company. Each OEM agreement may also include revenue for manufacturing services, warranty services, marketing, customer service, order fulfillment, and technical support services.
http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr011602.html
Eclipse is coming - Wonder if any other of iBiquity's numerious unit builders could have come to us....
2 current Eclipse reviews... However IMO NexGen Eclipse will incorporate features such as internal Harddrive capable of 'Write-Back' buffering for FM record, wireless 802.11 - and MP3, AAC capabilities and very possibly IBOC.
http://www.caraudioelectronicsweb.com/testreports/0211cae_eclipse/
http://www.thedoublee.com/caraudio/reviews/headunits/cd5442/
With the development of digital radio, iBiquity Digital is partnering with some of the biggest names associated with receivers, semiconductors and radio broadcasting, as well as wireless data content providers. We are working with receiver manufacturers Alpine, Blaupunkt, Delphi, Fujitsu Ten, Harman Kardon, JVC, Hyundai AutoNet, Kenwood, Mitsubishi, Recoton, Sanyo and Visteon; electronic component manufacturers Alps, Sanshin, TBK and TOKO; automaker Ford; and consumer electronics retailer Crutchfield. We are also working with semiconductor manufacturers Philips Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments and content providers Accuweather, The Associated Press, Impulse Radio, Hollywood.com, Movietickets.com and SmartRoute Systems. In addition, we are working with our fourteen radio broadcast owners and other AM/FM broadcasters, and transmission equipment manufacturers Andrew, Armstrong, Broadcast Electronics, Continental Electronics, Dielectric, Energy-Onix, ERI, Harris Corporation, Jampro RF Systems, LowPass Prototype, LPB, Moseley Associates, Nautel, Orban, QEI, Shively Labs, and Telos/Cutting Edge. All of our partners have agreed to develop coordinated strategies for the market launch of iBiquity Digital’s IBOC technology and their associated products. Our partnership with leading companies is one of the most important strategies in bringing digital AM/FM radio to consumers. These alliances will help to ensure radio's rapid transition to a digital future.
http://www.ibiquity.com/navframe.html?06content.html
HOW DATA TRANSMITTED OVER AN IBOC STATION
5th page bottom left paragraph -
7th page 'Application Examples'
Note emphisis on DRM/encription needs
http://www.impulseradio.com/NAB_whitepaper.pdf
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Subject: October T3
From zizzou
PostID 219102 On Saturday, October 19, 2002 (EST) at 9:18:17 PM
Response To: zizzou PostID 219095 Agora
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Just saw the Odyssey 1000 in the October issue of T3 magazine. It was on page 21 in the T-file Big in The USA section. This is a section with all the new stuff coming, a picture and a paragraph per item. In our case they had a picture with the orange screen and in our paragraph they stated 'set to give the IPOD a run for it's money'.
Also in this issue they have a full page review of the Archos Jukebox Multimedia 20, page 89, they gave it a 3 out of a possible 5 stars. They weren't very impressed with the screen size or functionality of it.
Hmmm gern1 - This implies the DRM resides on the flash card and/or is required - if so thats interesting - ... especially with the Palm SD Secure content announcement last week..
I figured any flash device would be firmware upgrading the DRM algs... however having them on the flash dish makes for a more likely distruction upon attemps at backward engineering or tampering.
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Oct. 17, 2002 PDT
NEW YORK -- Time Warner Cable has announced plans to roll out an expansive video-on-demand service in New York that will be the nation's broadest offering of the technology to date.
''The cable provider is also developing home-networking products and cable boxes with built-in digital recording features, all of which are aimed at adding new services and new revenues streams to their customer base. ''
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,55870,00.html
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In my prior post when I spoke of nexgen Eclipse it shoulda read MOS 3.0 - guess MicroCAM was 2... lol
MicroOS then MicroCAM - will 3.0 have a name or stay a version
E-COM sounds nice but as per ck.... Eclipse has had that with commander since 99.
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Don't forget Diez and AAC-IBOC tie into digital radio... Cruising down the highway tuned to WeDigRadio :)
of course datacasting as needed
emit...
Couldn't do it without help... and correct me if I'm wrong...
kinda eclectic to... own edig,sblu,fply... look at reality and may the best design win... us some money
I can see IBOC with Eclipse on the highways creating consistant revenue almost faster than handheld adoptance with all the conflicting label crap - I think the adoptance of FM record will also work to easy the MP3 constraint's by doing what we'v always strived for... Higher Quality Secure Codec Services ie., iBiquity AAC... even WMA
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The unusual reverse DSP capability IMO means 5442 has MP3 external ie. changer... and actually I don't see how we couldn't be in this unit, sais it doesn't it... nexgen probaly brings it inside with AAC -
And we've got the manufacturing contract on these baby's...
We were pleased to announce last week an automotive product developed and designed through our collaboration with Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten. The Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten automotive product (MP-3 Changer) introduced at CES represents the first automotive system incorporating e.Digital’s MicroOS and VoiceNavTM technologies. In addition to the design shown at the Eclipse by Fujitsu Ten booth, e.Digital demonstrated an advanced prototype of the product utilizing a beta version of its MicroOS 3.0 which enables music files to be remotely transferred from a PC to the player via 802.11 wireless protocol.
It Is... Something to look forward to
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The DSP tie will go within via transfer, or be evident with e-com/voicenav ...
'The wiring harness has connections for the four powered outputs, rated by the manufacturer at 50 watts per channel maximum. On the bench, one percent THD power measurements showed continuous power to be 14 watts per channel for each of these four outputs. Front and rear stereo pairs of line outs have 5-volt swings for high signal-to-noise ratio, and there is an unusual feature allowing you to switch these outputs into inputs for use with a DSP processor. (without having external amplifiers). The auxiliary input is a pigtail with a 3.5mm stereo plug that's designed for use with a portable MP3 player. Remote turn-on leads for external amps and power antenna are separate so your antenna only deploys when you switch to the tuner source. Illumination and cell phone mute leads are also provided. A digital output makes it possible to connect a processor that supports Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic, and DTS surround formats. A high-density DIN connector is used to connect CD changers with a single cable.'
http://www.caraudioelectronicsweb.com/testreports/0211cae_eclipse/
``` Now doesn't Dolby Digital & Pro Logic = AAC
IMHO e.Digital's next generation of Eclipse MOS2 will internalize with a HardDrive WriteBack - if they can make it IBOC wireless with a dockable handset... WHoooooooo.
This would be.... InMyVeryHumbleOpinion a killer App. Of course if it's priced right - at around $899 And I wonder if RadioShack would get it before Ford or Toyota. lol
Eclipse CD5442 - Thou CD could contain edig NRE for nexgen. The wording 'supports' E-COM could mean not us yet IMO, but the below feature could be indicitive of mos...
You can program titles for each station, and also have a "Band Category" title for each band that you can use to group your stations by genre.
The memory preferences are pretty slick as well. You can setup the deck to different combinations of AM/FM bands and CD Titles you can enter. You can enter up to 100 titles for your CD’s.
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The wording 'supports' E-COM could mean not us yet IMO, but the below feature could be indicitive of mos...
You can program titles for each station, and also have a "Band Category" title for each band that you can use to group your stations by genre.
The memory preferences are pretty slick as well. You can setup the deck to different combinations of AM/FM bands and CD Titles you can enter. You can enter up to 100 titles for your CD’s.
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Sent - if it's E-COM ready I'd think so, but you never know.
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Nice rs - Something tells me we'll be hearing more about the 'E-COM' - Also note the pigtail plug for mp3 use... 50watts per channel standard is very nice also.
But this is a far cry from the HD based unit with 'Write-back'
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doni - wouldn't you say this is where file mgmt within handhelds for convergence could bring e.Digital out on top.
From Tender's post/
"Once you are done with (detecting services), you are left back in the world of protocols," software engineer Todd Blume said at Tiger Island Software on the Internet discussion board of Sun Microsystems (http://archives.java.sun.com/jini-users.html).
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Highlander Principle - lol
good read... Jini is atuned to oPlayo coming - java
hope mgmt know these guys
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The Phenomenon
e.Digital has become synonymous within an amazing and massive transfusion of digital exchange, thou slow market, some great things are taking place, 5 maybe ten company’s doing a good job at 3G products…. But pjb’s, pvp’s aren’t 3g – Samsung could make the tie via cell. MOS 2 in Eclipse at CES – ARCHOS, Toshiba HD pjb, Samsungs new HD YEPP, Replay TV, moxi etc,… This country/world isn’t fading in it’s convenient quest for Consumer Electronics – Many Fail… Lydstrum, Puck, SlimX lol
Wouldn’t surprise me to see sblu pvp proto at CES… e.Divx will be there – n Archos, this is nice http://www.archos.com/
divx compatable only, and talk about your modules... maybe mos el do a little demodulation - 2 1
Funny that fred n rp emphisized modules, hopefully as a key to convergence.
I’m wondering … would you vote to merge with Samsung or SonicBlue, dbl/yes . Hats off to you Archos – you n rio will be mossified in the end!
SonicReplay will require a rio handheld –
whose will ours be with?
Anyway, with all the desperation we’re seeing/feeling, it’s nice knowing that
‘There Are More Amazing Things To Come’
via music & slavatic modes of use
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http://www.mp3grandcentral.net/fw_signup.html
Jeez... can't be legit
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They don't get my votes - FWIW/eom
You got it Jim - eom
October 9, 2002 / News Archives
AMD, Fujitsu Mull Closer Ties on Flash
By Clint Boulton
How do you knock off the No. 1 flash memory creator? Why, join forces with another partner, of course.
That may be the tack chipmaker AMD (NYSE:AMD) and Fujitsu are taking. According to the Financial Times, the perennial No. 2 U.S. chipmaker and Japanese electronics manufacturer are in talks to create a separate company in which AMD would market and make flash chips. This would greatly help AMD in its jostling for position with flash market leader Intel (NASDAQ:INTC).
Sunnyvale, Calif.'s AMD and Fujitsu already enjoy a working relationship in Japan where they make flash products.
Flash memory is storage used for portable electronics devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Sources told the Times that AMD would take a 60 percent stake in the company, which would set up shop in January 2003. Fujitsu would be in the for the remaining 40 percent, in a partnership the firms estimate could reap $3 billion in sales.
AMD spokesperson Morris Denton would neither confirm or deny the deal, saying: "Our position is that we are pleased with the current FASL relationship, and are always looking for ways to improve the nature of our relationships with our partners ... the relationship with Fujitsu is no different in that regard."
But Gartner's semiconductor memories principal analyst Richard Gordon told internetnews.com the deal is the "flash's industry's worst kept secret."
"Fujitsu has been under going a major rethink about its participation in the semiconductor industry in general for some time and I'm sure they are looking at leveraging the FASL relationship to back out of the flash market," Gordon explained. "AMD has long been a flash market leader and it would make sense for them to take the lead in any broadening of the AMD/Fujitsu relationship. As for competition with Intel, AMD really needs to execute on its mirror bit technology in 2003 to threaten Intel's dominance in the cell phone market."
Thinking longer term, Gordon said both Intel and AMD need to convince the market that NOR-based technologies are a better than NAND-based technologies for combined code and data storage applications. With cost per bit becoming increasingly important, that is the biggest challenge for the NOR-based technology vendors.
AMD reported weak sales in its second quarter last July, attributed to the flagging demand for PCs, but noted that flash memory product sales improved, based on the strength of the high-end mobile phone market. AMD said consumers are buying feature-rich phones built with flash memory. AMD said it owed its success there to its AMD MirrorBit technology.
In May, AMD announced the Fab 25 manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas is in volume production of Flash memory devices utilizing 170-nanometer technology, but setting up such plants is very costly. AMD recently estimated that it will cost about $2.2 billion to outfit production plants of the current flash venture in Japan
A pretense to an Asian inclination :) eom
From 'About e.Digital' on PR. First time I've ever noted desktop/laptop/handheld pc's mentioned. hmm yep mine says $129 also - did note some oddities within my pr like point changes, gaps and weird charcters here n there...
''Other applications for e.Digital’s technology include portable digital music players and voice recorders; desktop, laptop, and handheld computers; PC peripherals; cellular phone peripherals; e-books; video games; digital cameras; and digital video recorders.''
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CenterSpan inks C-Star deal with new network
Aliza Earnshaw Business Journal Staff Writer CenterSpan Communications Corp. (Nasdaq: CSCC), the Hillsboro company that has developed a peer-to-peer technology platform for delivering digital files securely over the internet, announced a deal this week with a small company that wants to use CenterSpan's technology to deliver a wide variety of entertainment to homes.
MeTVNetworks Inc., a 10-employee company headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., will use CenterSpan's C-StarOne Network to deliver movies, niche television programming and music to homes that have broadband access. MeTV will pay CenterSpan on a per-terabyte-delivered basis--that is, on data volume. CenterSpan said it expects to see "material" revenue from the deal in the fourth quarter of this year.
This is the second deal that CenterSpan has recently announced with a content distribution company. CenterSpan said last month that VUNet USA, a group of internet companies owned by Vivendi Universal, had signed a letter of intent to use C-StarOne technology to launch an online entertainment service later this year. CenterSpan expects that deal to begin yielding revenue after the launch, which is anticipated to take place in the fourth quarter, but "that could slip," said Kay Richards, a spokeswoman for CenterSpan.
MeTV, founded in 1999, sells monthly subscriptions to a movie and music service at $9.99 per month, and a subscription that in-cludes television programming for $19.99 per month--though at the moment, subscriptions are free, as part of a temporary promotion. Subscribers to MeTV can either view the network's content on their computers, or, if they want to, cable the computer to a television and watch on the larger set. MeTV also sells hardware for $49.95, or $3.99 per month, that allows the computer to send programming wirelessly to a television, if the two machines are in separate rooms.
MeTV specializes in niche television programming: The Triangle Network, a channel that focuses on content for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered viewers; The Children's Network, which currently distributes solely through MeTV; FightTV, which offers viewing of "ultimate fighting"; religious programming; specific niche-interest sports, such as horse racing, skateboarding and BMX biking; and "in-language" programming, or television offerings in different languages, including, at present, Arabic, Chinese and Turkish. MeTV also carries E! Entertainment Television, style network, Court TV, Game Show Network, music from DMX Music and about 3,500 movies. Other channels soon to be available include MSNBC and Shop NBC. At present, the company offers more than 220 channels.
MeTV Networks Inc. currently uses a Microsoft platform for delivering media files to its subscribers, employing a proprietary client-server technology. The mediated peer-to-peer technology underlying C-StarOne will result in better quality of service to subscribers as well as a cost savings to MeTV, said Michael Dutcher, senior vice president of MeTV.
In tests of the CStarOne system, MeTV found that delivery of content was "visually better," said Dutcher. The continuous streaming of video content was uninterrupted, either at random, or when using the fast-forward, rewind and "pointing" functions on the Windows Media player that controls the play of movies and other streamed entertainment available on the MeTV network.
"Pointing" refers to the ability to select a given place in a movie--say, a scene that starts three minutes, 13 seconds into the movie--and start playing from that point.
MeTV presently has 45,000 users, according to CenterSpan, though Dutcher speaks of the company's "more than 100,000 addressable set-top boxes worldwide."
http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/07/01/story7.html
`Add this - From Microsoft's site.'
The Next Generation of Television
MeTV is a media distribution company that is using technology to re-define worldwide entertainment distribution and significantly lower distribution costs. MeTV combines Windows Media technologies and broadband networks (in place of satellite or open air broadcasting) to deliver live television broadcasts and pay-per-view movies to consumers on their televisions.
To understand where MeTV is heading, it’s instructive to look back at how television has evolved. Greg Bell, President of MeTV, explains, "If you go back to the way television entertainment began, each city used to have a broadcasting tower, and then cable came along and one head-end would service an entire city with substantially more programming, then satellite TV came along and showed that one satellite can service a country with even more programming. Now with Microsoft technologies, we’re able to take one head-end and service the world. So it is a natural evolution and there are a couple reasons why it works: one is the capability of using IP protocols to deliver content, and the other is that the pipes that deliver broadband to the world are already built."
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/profiles/metv/default.asp
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Microsoft Wins a Spot on the Set-top
By Thor Olavsrud
Continuing its drive to gain a foothold outside of the (PC) box, Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) Thursday used IBC2002 in Amsterdam as a platform to announce support by major set-top box and digital media appliance chip makers, as well as European broadcast technology firms, for its Windows Media 9 Series.
Windows Media 9 Series, formerly code-named Corona, was unleashed last week in Los Angeles.
In the past few years, Microsoft has been striving to push its influence beyond the slumping PC market in an effort to diversify its revenue streams. The software giant has played aggressively for the handheld and game console spaces, and has dipped its toes in the embedded operating system market, interactive television, and other digital media appliances.
From the beginning, Microsoft has made it clear that it will be focus its strategy on securing hardware partners for the Corona technology, while also seeking to reel in the entertainment industry with a new distribution outlet for its products.
The customer wins announced Thursday, which include chip makers Equator Technologies, National Semiconductor, Sigma Designers, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, will help Microsoft work its way deeper into the set-top box market. Microsoft has also won over broadcast systems hardware firms TANDBERG Television and Optibase, box makers Pace Micro Technologies and Moviesystem, and VoD provider Yes Television.
"Windows Media 9 Series is a significant step forward in the evolution of digital television, especially for telcos and broadband network operators that deliver more content and services than ever," said Tim Fern, chief technology officer at Pace Micro Technology, which will manufacture set-top boxes using chips that support Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series. "Advanced silicon supporting Windows Media 9 Series has been important to our development of the world's first Windows Media 9 Series set-top box, which will be on show at IBC2002. Not only has it helped us make product costs viable, it has reduced our time to market -- crucial factors for our telco and operator customers."
The partnership with set-top box chip makers will especially help to drive Microsoft deep into the market. Equator, whose BSP series System-on-a-chip processors support Windows Media 9 Audio and Video supplies its chips to many set-top box manufacturers, including Pace. National Semiconductor, which has provided support for playback and decoding of Windows Media Audio and Video in its Geode processors and Geode CS1201 media coprocessor, supplies chips to Pioneer, and other Japanese manufacturers. Sigma Design's new EM8500 DVD decoder chip supports playback of Windows Media Audio -- and future chips will support video -- and supplies chips to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Samsung Electronics and Kreatel Communications AB.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is making strides among European broadcast hardware and distribution firms. NTL Broadcast, partnered with TANDBERG, used IBC2002 as an opportunity to demonstrate their new technology, which uses Windows Media Video 9 format to encode high-quality video and then deliver it in real time over a DVB-T mobile network to moving vehicles in Amsterdam. IBC shuttle vehicles, traveling through Amsterdam will receive ITN news stories and British Eurosport video via the standard DVB-T infrastructure.
Of course, Microsoft is not the only digital video and audio technology firm that is aiming to nest itself inside digital media appliances. Competitor DivXNetworks, in April, cozied up to Texas Instruments, which is embedding DivX's codec on its chips. And earlier that month, it partnered with e.Digital, which is using DivX's technology in its consumer electronics devices, including MP3 players.
"We are pursuing relationships with a number of different chip companies to port DivX to their chips for a number of devices," said DivXNetworks spokesman Tom Huntington. He noted that more partnerships will be announced soon.
"We're very much a consumer facing company," Huntington said. "Our company is still driven by consumers, but consumers are demanding convergence devices that allow them to play back their DivX videos."
Huntington said the firm is developing relationships with both large and small content providers, and has had some "encouraging conversations" with a number of Hollywood studios.
But while DivXNetworks is looking to forge partnerships with more mainstream content distributors, Huntington also noted that the company is being careful to keep its eye on what it's users want and need.
"Our strategy is driven by what consumers want," he said. "They want to be able to create and distribute their own videos. There's a whole universe of other content outside mainstream Hollywood that is particularly attractive to our users."
http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/1461881
Microsoft taking aim at home entertainment ...
James Coates
Published July 28, 2002
Bill Gates has his eye on your television set. He thinks your TV should stop being just a video machine and become a computer. Care to guess which operating system Bill wants your television set to use?
Look at it this way. There are a bit more than 100 million households in the United States. About 48 million of these homes have a computer. By contrast, virtually the entire 100 million households have one color television set and more than half of them have at least two TVs.
With computer sales to American homes now flatter than they ever have been, Gates set his sights on the far larger video market.
In the past couple of weeks Microsoft Corp. put many of the finishing touches on a coming fall campaign to join forces with consumer electronics outfits and PC-makers to flood the stores with the first generation of hybrid devices that Microsoft code named its "Freestyle" project.
The Freestyle collaborators include a global triumvirate of the giant makers of both computers and home entertainment products: Hewlett-Packard Co., Japan's NEC Corp. and Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
They're about to unleash a flood of television sets, DVD players and home music systems that have full-blown Pentium computers running the next generation of Windows XP built into their innards.
Called the Windows XP Media Center Edition, the new look for the operating system now on 90 percent of the world's desktop computers will be based on a user employing an infrared remote clicker box instead of a keyboard. One will use the clicker to move a cursor arrow across a device's screen and click open the Start menu.
Start will open the way to a rather stunning upgrade to Microsoft's already robust Media Player software called Media Player 9.0, a program that handles everything from playing conventional music CDs to running high fidelity multichannel DVD movies and displaying streaming video feeds of the latest Hollywood movies over broadband connections.
Sources at the Microsoft Network tell me that Microsoft plans to offer this high-speed content through telecom giant Verizon.
The idea is to sell homes not only Microsoft-powered NEC and Samsung TV receivers and music players running Windows XP, but to sign them up for subscriptions to MSN (about $25 per month) to download and play--in real time--movies, music, games and other goodies.
Look for an unveiling in early September when Gates plans an extravaganza release of Media Player 9.
It's all part of a master plan that Gates hatched shortly after stepping down as Microsoft's chief executive officer and taking instead the title of chief software architect.
As word of the Freestyle project emerged from Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, Wash., it became dramatically obvious why Gates ordered his company to charge American consumers $200 for the Microsoft X-Box game machine that some analysts suspect cost the company $250 to make.
Just as many hackers, like MIT's Andrew Shane "Bunnie" Huang, who have dismantled the carefully encrypted X-Boxes suspected, these seeming toys are full blown Intel-architecture personal computers as well as games. With the new Windows XP Media Center operating system, they already have a major foot in the door as the company focuses its huge resources on home entertainment .
It's a move clearly being made with all of the cunning and ruthless singularity of purpose that has been Gates' style from the beginning.
If it weren't so important to the future of the American economy it would almost be amusing watching Gates and his masters of manipulation at Microsoft scramble to find something beyond desktop computers.
And what a scramble it is as Gates struggles with the unhappy fact that he no longer is at the helm of a revolution.
Even without today's gear-grinding economic slowdown, the home computer business would have lost much of the momentum that propelled it through the roaring '90s.
Those homes that were likely to buy a computer now have done so, and the great boom as folks rushed to get online is over. Home PC sales have become a replacement industry rather than a revolution.
Computers are a mature industry. Just like toasters and sewing machines and automobiles. Watching computer hardware and software sales has become almost as dull as watching paint dry.
Nobody knows this better than Gates. Just about anybody who ever worked for him or interviewed him will tell you that nothing makes the world's richest man bristle as does telling him that his company exists merely to sell upgrades to past glories.
"We are not an upgrade company and we never will be an upgrade company," Gates shouted at this writer back in 1996.
But as far as computers go, that's exactly what Microsoft has become. It is the world's largest PC software upgrade company by a mile and a yard. And there's nothing wrong with being in the upgrade game, either.
Before Microsoft takes over the look and feel of our television sets, I wish someone would just tell Gates to chill out and remember that Ford Motor Co. does quite nicely selling upgrades. So does General Motors.
Chicago Tribune
culator - couple recordable Handheld-HDs with iBiquity -
It'll catch on. Quick IMHO
Atul's 'big picture' epac n spac
aftermarker may be the itiology of a portable convergence
Ford & iBiquity - hmmmmm
emit... 2005 :(
bolded correction on last post - eom
Can you believe the shareholders want to oust two bod's.. sell patents to ms, but stay amonst the industry as Alliance, could work.
lqid's been going up
but - sf/phrophsy of us in the convergenc emergence
staying in the know because of patents & security
emit...
BMPSKR ~ nice: note bold. g/find 'big picture'
FreeStyle probably kick off at IBC-2002.. Samsung and MS touted new STB this Fall - will we be there ... who knows
Microsoft Wins a Spot on the Set-top
By Thor Olavsrud
Continuing its drive to gain a foothold outside of the (PC) box, Microsoft (Quote, Company Info) Thursday used IBC2002 in Amsterdam as a platform to announce support by major set-top box and digital media appliance chip makers, as well as European broadcast technology firms, for its Windows Media 9 Series.
Windows Media 9 Series, formerly code-named Corona, was unleashed last week in Los Angeles.
In the past few years, Microsoft has been striving to push its influence beyond the slumping PC market in an effort to diversify its revenue streams. The software giant has played aggressively for the handheld and game console spaces, and has dipped its toes in the embedded operating system market, interactive television, and other digital media appliances.
From the beginning, Microsoft has made it clear that it will be focus its strategy on securing hardware partners for the Corona technology, while also seeking to reel in the entertainment industry with a new distribution outlet for its products.
The customer wins announced Thursday, which include chip makers Equator Technologies, National Semiconductor, Sigma Designers, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments, will help Microsoft work its way deeper into the set-top box market. Microsoft has also won over broadcast systems hardware firms TANDBERG Television and Optibase, box makers Pace Micro Technologies and Moviesystem, and VoD provider Yes Television.
"Windows Media 9 Series is a significant step forward in the evolution of digital television, especially for telcos and broadband network operators that deliver more content and services than ever," said Tim Fern, chief technology officer at Pace Micro Technology, which will manufacture set-top boxes using chips that support Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Series. "Advanced silicon supporting Windows Media 9 Series has been important to our development of the world's first Windows Media 9 Series set-top box, which will be on show at IBC2002. Not only has it helped us make product costs viable, it has reduced our time to market -- crucial factors for our telco and operator customers."
The partnership with set-top box chip makers will especially help to drive Microsoft deep into the market. Equator, whose BSP series System-on-a-chip processors support Windows Media 9 Audio and Video supplies its chips to many set-top box manufacturers, including Pace. National Semiconductor, which has provided support for playback and decoding of Windows Media Audio and Video in its Geode processors and Geode CS1201 media coprocessor, supplies chips to Pioneer, and other Japanese manufacturers. Sigma Design's new EM8500 DVD decoder chip supports playback of Windows Media Audio -- and future chips will support video -- and supplies chips to Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Samsung Electronics and Kreatel Communications AB.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is making strides among European broadcast hardware and distribution firms. NTL Broadcast, partnered with TANDBERG, used IBC2002 as an opportunity to demonstrate their new technology, which uses Windows Media Video 9 format to encode high-quality video and then deliver it in real time over a DVB-T mobile network to moving vehicles in Amsterdam. IBC shuttle vehicles, traveling through Amsterdam will receive ITN news stories and British Eurosport video via the standard DVB-T infrastructure.
Of course, Microsoft is not the only digital video and audio technology firm that is aiming to nest itself inside digital media appliances. Competitor DivXNetworks, in April, cozied up to Texas Instruments, which is embedding DivX's codec on its chips. And earlier that month, it partnered with e.Digital, which is using DivX's technology in its consumer electronics devices, including MP3 players.
"We are pursuing relationships with a number of different chip companies to port DivX to their chips for a number of devices," said DivXNetworks spokesman Tom Huntington. He noted that more partnerships will be announced soon.
"We're very much a consumer facing company," Huntington said. "Our company is still driven by consumers, but consumers are demanding convergence devices that allow them to play back their DivX videos."
Huntington said the firm is developing relationships with both large and small content providers, and has had some "encouraging conversations" with a number of Hollywood studios.
But while DivXNetworks is looking to forge partnerships with more mainstream content distributors, Huntington also noted that the company is being careful to keep its eye on what it's users want and need.
"Our strategy is driven by what consumers want," he said. "They want to be able to create and distribute their own videos. There's a whole universe of other content outside mainstream Hollywood that is particularly attractive to our users."
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moxa - Someone visited a J&R or Fries - one of our outlets and posted they expected 800/1k's in next week... which would be this week, but can't find the mail.
emit...
OT - Mozart scored a 165, Isaac Newton a 190...
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Hey... they redid the WDM Title graphic -
Refreash to see it... some may need to do a Ctrl-refreash.
Way to go
No second Aliases here...
emit...
db - yes, works great... glad to see it, but i refreashed and think the title could be improved - graphics wise.
They've probable been so busy it wasn't important, but during the quick previews we got i noticed it and would have thunk they'd have cleaned it up... they even took the period out - did say
We.Dig
Music
Anyway - glad its up
emit...
Sure hope they clean up the site title - WeDigMusic
jagged n blurry.... pretty horrific huh berge
jeeez fellows
emit...
Microsoft and IFP/New York Announce First Digital Film Screenings Using Windows Media 9 Series at the 2002 IFP Market
2003 IFP Market Is First Major Independent Film Event to Embrace Windows Media
Video 9 Series as a Format for Filmmaker Submissions
NEW YORK, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) and IFP/New York today announced that four independent films, all works-in-progress, will be encoded and digitally screened at the Angelika Film Center using Microsoft(R) Windows Media(R) 9 Series technology during the upcoming IFP Market in New York City, Sept. 30- Oct. 3.
The films, all part of the IFP Market Rough Cut Showcase, are Aion Velie's "Taft," Tod Harrison's "The Big Bend," Elizabeth Dimon's "Private Property" and Ghazi Albuliwi's "West Bank Brooklyn." All four films will be encoded in Windows Media 9 Series format, enabling them to be screened digitally without the need for a film print. The new technology enables filmmakers and distributors to cut costs while providing the highest-quality audio and video experiences for viewing audiences.
As a sponsor of IFP/New York, Microsoft will work with Digital Cinema Solutions to provide infrastructure and technology services to support the film screenings at the Angelika Film Center, as well as to support DuArt Digital Film Labs, which will handle converging of the films into the Windows Media 9 Series format. This showcase will underscore the security and flexibility that the Windows Media format provides when delivering films for festival and market presentations. It avoids many of the costs associated with traditional 16mm to 35mm blowups or video-to-film recording, and offers superior quality in comparison to screening from videotape. In addition, the ability to send films to theaters over the Internet, on CD-ROM or on DVD-ROM avoids the expense of making and shipping prints and is a breakthrough development for independent filmmakers.
IFP/New York also announced that in 2003 at the 25th Annual IFP Market, filmmakers will be able to submit their work digitally using Windows Media Video 9 Series. This will be the first major independent film event to introduce Windows Media as a format for film submission.
"The addition of Windows Media 9 Series to IFP Market will enable independent filmmakers, distributors and exhibitors to take advantage of the cost savings made possible with digital technologies," said Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media Division at Microsoft. "The use of digital media for distribution makes it possible for filmmakers to put their movie before audiences, providing the theatrical-quality image and surround sound that audiences desire."
"We are delighted to offer screenings of these four films in Windows Media 9 Series format at the IFP Market," said Michelle Byrd, executive director of IFP/New York. "One of our missions is to act as a conduit by which independent filmmakers are presented with new technologies, such as Windows Media 9 Series, that will enable them to exhibit their craft and tell their stories in new ways and to new audiences."
About IFP
Affiliated with a nationwide network of IFP organizations in Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, Miami and Seattle, IFP is now the largest association of independent filmmaking professionals in the United States. More than 10,000 filmmakers and industry professionals enlist IFP for year-round assistance and guidance. Offering a wide range of exciting and useful member services, IFP is the leading resource of the American independent film community. Visit the IFP Web site at http://www.ifp.org/ for more information.
The IFP Market is a weeklong showcase, held each autumn in New York, for features, works-in-progress, shorts and scripts by independent filmmakers. For 24 years, it has been a vital exhibition and discovery forum for new talent and films before they hit the festival circuit. The IFP Market is an essential networking opportunity, attracting 2,000 filmmakers, distributors, TV and home video acquisitions executives, domestic and international buyers, agents, development execs, and festival programmers from the United States and abroad.
Just think how Mgmt and our company employees feel people -
Lucent's demise, RemoteSolutions screwed us, Eastech delays, unable to retain F&H, DataPlay furlows, MTV player postponed, mediocar reviews of our AM on all players, and I bet Volan isn't helping on this new site either...
Thank the Lord some portability acceptance by labels, DNG's Asian ability, lqid's d2d, fujitsu, jma and mp3.com
emit...