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Why Go To Digital Radio?
Radio's venerable tradition of providing entertainment and information to people across the world is given a new lease on life with the move digital. First, the sound quality of digital radios will be greatly improved - imagine CD quality sound via your current radio stations. Static and interference are significantly reduced in digital radios. Second, digital radio will provide a new array of never before available data-rich services broadcasted to the public. These services could include traffic, sports, weather, stock prices, etc. LCDs could display this data via text, images, and/or video. Third, these new digital radios will converge with different types of compelling end products including: MP3 player/radio; cell phone/radio; and PDA/radio.
http://www.tidsp.com/sc/docs/innovate/radio/whydr.htm
We obviously don't need DigitalRadio... FM'll do, but bet the signal and recording will greatly improve - plus, a push - pull datacasting ability... hmmm
Ad Video continued Broadband growth and you could possibly see JC's ''bigger picture''
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''Fujitsu Ten of Japan is a major supplier of electronic gadgetry to the likes of Toyota and General Motors, but its Eclipse brand is a significant force in its own right.''
Investors Chronicle ''GOOD WEEK, BAD WEEK'' 05/02/2002
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Toyota Turns Up The Sound
05/18/2002
Illawarra Mercury
Page 22
Copyright of John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd
A promotional Toyota Corolla Levin will be heard more than seen when it does the rounds of audio retailers across Australia in the months ahead.
This purpose-built boom-box Corolla is fitted with an Eclipse CD tuner, five high-power amplifiers, three large subwoofers and eight other speakers.
Eclipse is the premium brand of Fujitsu Ten who is the exclusive audio supplier for the Toyota range of vehicles.
Along with developing the audio system for the new Camry to be released later in the year, Fujitsu Ten has recently launched into the retail market with its Eclipse brand, said Fujitsu Ten 's senior manager sales and marketing Dawie Aker.
''Toyota Corolla has incredible brand recognition, so we're very confident that its high profile will help promote the Eclipse product in the car audio market,'' Mr Aker said.
To install such a large audio system for promotional purposes required extensive modification to the car, he said.
The Corolla's sound source is the Eclipse CD8061 CD tuner, which recently took out the 2002 Sound and Image magazine award for car audio head unit of the year.
The unit includes 16-volt balanced line outputs and feeds five 620-watt 33240 two-channel Eclipse power amplifiers.
The amplifiers pump three back-seat-mounted 12-inch aluminium subwoofers that each have a music power handling capacity of 1000 watts.
Front staging is achieved with a three-speaker cross-over system made up of a six-and-a-half inch driver, a five-inch driver and a silk dome tweeter to enhance top-end reproduction.
Six-and-a-half inch point source speakers provide rear fill.
The Corolla will appear at the Auto Salon car exhibitions in Melbourne on July 27-28 and Brisbane on September 7-8.
It will also feature at the 2002 Sydney Motor Show during October and dealer days
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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 aftermarket.
Oh ya... 51% owned by Toyota
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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FM Recording to SmartMedia Flash....
IMHO We just crossed into a new era...
Obviously we can do it with autosystems also... write-backed :)
Do it to a MXP-HD and we are Rio'esqus to the MP3 cannundrum -
Way To Go e.Digital.
emit... here another year
FM Recorder :) eom
Culminating -
From e.Digital Mgmt. - Regarding Samsung & Toshiba ongoing projects with DataPlay.
Q: I am aware that [e.Digital has] done design work for Toshiba and Samsung with regard to DataPlay. Do you expect these companies to be part of the initial summer [2002] rollout?
A: We are not at liberty to discuss the marketing plans of our OEM customers.
(Reference: E.DIGITAL TO DEBUT DATAPLAY-ENABLED PRODUCT DESIGNS AT 2001 CES;
E.DIGITAL TO DEVELOP AND PROVIDE MULTI-CODEC PORTABLE INTERNET MUSIC PLAYER DESIGN WITH TOSHIBA)
http://www.edig.com/investors/FAQ.html
If I’m not mistaken – When this Question was first addressed it read: “Yes” we have an ongoing project with them. Since then its changed.
E.DIGITAL TO DEVELOP AND PROVIDE MULTI-CODEC PORTABLE INTERNET MUSIC PLAYER DESIGN WITH TOSHIBA
(SAN DIEGO, CA - January 4, 2001) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG), a global provider of comprehensive digital product development and designs, today announced that e.Digital and Toshiba are working to create, develop, and deliver to Toshiba, music player samples based on e.Digital's proprietary reference design and built to Toshiba's specifications. Toshiba is scheduled to demonstrate the music player samples, which incorporate DataPlay miniature optical disc storage technology, to retailers and other prospective customers at the international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas January 6-9, 2001.
http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr010401a.html
Toshiba – Powered By e.Digital
http://hardware.dmusic.com/ces/ces070.jpg
May 2002 - Toshiba & DataPlay
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=363614
2001 - e.Digital and Samsung are working together on DataPlay-enabled products that will be featured at Samsung stations in the DataPlay Pavilion . The Samsung products integrate e.Digital's proprietary MicroCAM™ technology with DataPlay's digital media technology. These products include a PCMCIA Storage device and an MP3 encoder/ multi-codec music player.
http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr010501.html
E.DIGITAL CORPORATION AND DATAPLAY INC. ANNOUNCE AGREEMENT AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
September 19, 2001 - SAN DIEGO, CA - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG), a global provider of comprehensive digital product development and designs, and DataPlay, Inc., developer of the universal media format for all things digital, today announced a broad strategic alliance and agreement to develop and deliver portable products uniting DataPlay's digital media, micro-optical engine and ContentKeyTM technology with e.Digital's patented technology and design integration services.
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/news/pressreleases-2001.jsp
2001 - Robert Putnam Senior Vice President e.Digital Corporation. As an OEM technology provider, we work with our OEM customers and their preferences in regards to announcements, marketing and the use of their names and logos. The information that Samsung and Toshiba have allowed us to make public to date we have issued. Toshiba and Samsung are expected to market DataPlay-based, e.Digital-enabled devices later this year when DataPlay's optical storage technology is scheduled to become widely available. Per our 12/31/2000 Form 10QSB released on February 14th, in November 2000, we signed a licensing agreement with Samsung Electronics, America to develop a data storage device. We also signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to design and manufacture a multicodec music player/recorder. Both of these agreements are royalty-bearing and also include non-recurring revenues for engineering design services. We expect more information regarding our working relationships with Samsung and Toshiba to be forthcoming.
March 2002 - Samsung, Toshiba and Matsushita are investors in DataPlay and will be releasing the players. In addition to the portable device, some are considering developing a cradle so the device can be plugged into a home stereo.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,51178,00.html
Now look at this - Samsung Combi Yepp… Features: Detachable portable DataPlay audio player/encoder.
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/whatsplaying/products.jsp?action=details
E.DIGITAL AND EVOLUTION TECHNOLOGIES UNVEIL MTV DATAPLAYTM-ENABLED MUSIC PLAYER (LAS VEGAS, NV - January 8, 2002) - e.Digital Corporation (OTC: EDIG), Evolution Technologies, MTV: Music Television, and DataPlayTM announced the MTV portable DataPlay-enabled music player. The device is scheduled to be one of the first music players on the market to utilize DataPlay’s innovative technology.
http://www.edig.com/news/releases/pr010802a.html
http://www.dataplay.com
Coming In July – Powered By e.Digital Technology
http://www.uscdirect.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.12.exe/cgi-bin/smpagegen.exe?U+scstore+wktl2055ff1b331b+-p....
Boulder, Colo. (March 19, 2002) - DataPlay, Inc., developer of the new portable music format, announced today that it has finalized an agreement with Zomba Recording Corporation, the world's leading and largest independent music company, to make releases from some of the industry's top-selling artists available on pre-recorded DataPlay digital media. As a result of the deal, Jive Records will release albums from best-selling artists such as Britney Spears, *NSYNC, Aaron Carter, R. Kelly and Joe on DataPlay digital media.
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/news/index.jsp
Note: e.Digital's recent PRs with DGN & Digitalway... both are The OEM to Samsung Electronics (Yepp) and RFC (Jazpiper)...
May 2002 - New Samsung Brand Campaign Tops $200 Million Worldwide, Features Products That Deliver the "DigitAll Experience"
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=364259
May 2002 - Britney: Not A Girl, Now A Samsung Marketing Queen
Pop-music icon Britney Spears forges a long-term, multi-tier sponsorship and marketing agreement with Samsung Telecommunications America just in time for her 33-city North American tour.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=364083
March 2002 - Britney 'spearheads' new discs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1881000/1881039.stm
In My opinion these will eventually incorporate DataPlay and Divx…
May 2002 - SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS SUPPLIES CDMA2000 1XEV-DO PHONES.
Some of its Features: Independent voice recognition function creates new trend for mobile phones, third gerneration communications, videoconferencing, support video on demand and audio on demand. Users can receive a variety of color moving picture contents such as music videos, Internet broadcasts, animated films and news reports, Users can also download, store and play back video clips..
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=364189
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Good read Tin - I've often wondered if QDX codec could be being designed to be a audio and video codec... AAC mpeg-4 ?
''For example, MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding music compression at 192 Kbps or MPEG-4 video is readily utilized with the DataPlay player/recorder.''
IMHO - Our involvement falls here:
''Content owners can write unique encryption and conditional access keys to the media that specify a desired content protection scheme''
''The device's storage engine permits digital storage without regard to the data's source or format. ''
Data is both read and write cached, allowing the use of sophisticated shock sensing and detection methods and minimizing the impact of shock events.
Boston - IMHO, FPLY's involvement will be seen with Transworld's Kiosks.
emit...
Old but indicitive -
Britney 'spearheads' new discs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1881000/1881039.stm
emit...
Could add Digitalway/DNG produce Samsung products...
Musical doing Evolution for us now, but they also did/do SonyWalkman - but didn't Sony just get major security breach on CDs - so maybe DataPlay for sony also.
lov it - nice find on the Toshiba/DP write-up.
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New Samsung Brand Campaign Tops $200 Million Worldwide, Features Products That Deliver the "DigitAll Experience"
Business and Technology Editors
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 2002--
Re-Launch of Global Brand Continues "Everyone's Invited" Theme,
Evokes the Emotions Inspired by Everyday Digital Technology
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today launched its new $200 million global advertising campaign designed to position the company as a leader in the digital convergence arena. The campaign, entitled "DigitAll Experience," extends the positioning of both Samsung's first global brand campaign of 2001 and its recent Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games sponsorship marketing initiatives.
This new campaign, developed by New York-based Foote Cone & Belding (FCB), Samsung's global advertising agency of record, focuses on how Samsung's wide array of digital products meets the ever changing needs of today's consumer. The advertisements, both broadcast and print, are dedicated to expanding the Samsung brand, while demonstrating the enhanced emotional benefits of the company's cutting-edge, digital convergence products, which combine communication, entertainment and information, and how they can help to bring consumers richer and more enjoyable lives.
"Many consumers think of digital technology as an elite experience that's inaccessible to them. Samsung prides itself on developing revolutionary technology that meets everyone's needs--business or personal," said Eric Kim, Executive Vice President-Global Marketing Operations for Samsung Electronics. "Our `DigitALL' campaign depicts how exciting and accessible digital products really are, and how they've become part of our daily lives." Samsung's investment in overall marketing activities will exceed $900 million in 2002, including television and print media buys, as well as online marketing, retail promotions, collateral and point of purchase displays. This branding investment is more than a 21 percent increase from 2001.
Campaign Research
According to research conducted in April 2002, Samsung's 2001 global brand campaign, also developed by FCB, helped to elevate the brand substantially. In the U.S., brand awareness and preference increased to 74.1 percent from 56.4 percent over the life of the yearlong campaign, and consumer awareness of Samsung also increased 7.5 percentage points from 83.7 percent to 91.2 percent, according to the brand attitude survey.
"We're delighted with the results of last year's campaign, especially in terms of visibility in the U.S.," Mr. Kim said. "Based on the response to last year's campaign, we were able to address and incorporate those findings logically into our marketing initiatives."
Featured Products
The new campaign will showcase Samsung's marquee products in a wide array of areas of digital leadership, including the convergence, mobile and entertainment sectors. Products spotlighted within these ads include wireless handheld communication devices, such as color LCD mobile phones; entertainment products, such as portable DVD players and digital televisions; and futuristic products, such as the company's first-ever Internet refrigerator.
Taglines will feature variants of the anthem "DigitAll" theme, including "DigitAll Passion," "DigitAll Escape" and "DigitAll Wow," illustrating how consumers no longer choose products based on necessity but on want and desire--and how Samsung's digital products can affect consumers lives on an emotional level.
The campaign will launch with television spots in the U.S. on May 16, and will include broadcast and print buys in Europe, Commonwealth of Independent States (Russia), Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and China.
The campaign's "Anthem" television ad debuted on Samsung's new 41-feet by 65-feet spectacular sign, at Samsung's VIP sneak peek lighting ceremony in Times Square. The 30-second spot features an array of Samsung products, designed to stimulate a range of emotions, being used by consumers in a wide variety of everyday settings and geographic locations.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunications, and digital convergence technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 64,000 people in 89 offices in 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA mobile phones, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units: Digital Media Network, Device Solution Network, Telecommunications Network and Digital Appliance Network Businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.samsungelectronics.com.
Note: A Photo is available at URL:
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.051602/bb4
Just saw my first Samsung EV-DO esque commercial -
pretty cool
no sign of brittney or DP -
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Something tells me this could get BigTime -
Brittney & DataPlay
http://www.uscdirect.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.12.exe/cgi-bin/smpagegen.exe?U+scstore+wktl2055ff1b331b+-p....
Note those phones don't specify how they'll do video but can download - what if they'll incorporate, upgraded to MPEG4/Divx Dataplay.
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OT-SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS SUPPLIES CDMA2000 1XEV-DO PHONES
(Ybreo Newswire) -Seoul, Korea- Unique mobile phone receives color moving pictures via a TFT-LCD with color gamut of 260,000
* Phone supports streaming-type real-time VOD/AOD services
* A 110,000-pixel camera is built in with 180-degree rotation
* Multimedia messaging service capability takes mobile multimedia to new heights
* Independent voice recognition function creates new trend for mobile phones
* Samsung's leadership extends to IMT-2000, the third generation in mobile communications.
Samsung Electronics, the first to introduce CDMA2000 1X, is now paving the way for CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, a synchronous IMT-2000 format. The company has completed development of an EV-DO mobile phone (model: SCH-V300) with high-quality TFT-LCD that can reproduce 260,000 different color shades. The product can also send and receive data at up to 2.4Mbps, the fastest transmission speed of any mobile phone today. The SCH-V300 will be supplied to the SK Telecom IMT-2000 Test Group. Samsung Electronics is also about to come out with an EV-DO mobile phone model that supports videoconferencing.
Samsung’s EV-DO phone uses a streaming format to support video on demand and audio on demand. Users can receive a variety of color moving picture contents such as music videos, Internet broadcasts, animated films and news reports. The phone can also receive live World Cup matches in real time.
The high-performance TFT-LCD on the SCH-V300 was developed exclusively in-house by the Samsung Electronics Digital Device Solution Division. It is large enough to display up to 12 lines of text at a time. Users can also download, store and play back video clips.
The phone has an embedded 110,000-pixel camera that enables users to take high-quality digital pictures and send them to mobile via SMS and to computer via e-mail as well. Up to 100 still photos can be stored in the phone and used as a background for the display. The camera rotates 180 degrees to facilitate picture taking from any angle.
The SCH-V300 has taken mobile multimedia to a new level. The phone supports a MMS (multimedia messaging service) that encompasses voice, image, text and background music instead of just voice mail and email.
In addition, an independent voice recognition function dials the numbers of names in the phonebook without the need for a prerecording.
The utility of this function is thus enhanced and a new trend has been set for mobile phones.
The Samsung Electronics EV-DO mobile phone comes with a 40-chord progression polyphonic ring tone. Other features include 3D graphics interface and menus that switch between Korean and English.
A Samsung spokesperson says, “We are initially supplying the phone (to SK Telecom), and it will be available to the general public by the end of May. The CDMA2000 1xEV-DOservice will become the Korean market mainstream in the second half of this year, and we plan to not only bolster the status of the Samsung mobile brand but also lead the way to IMT-2000.”
□ Product specifications (SCH-V300)
* Dimensions: 95mm long x 50mm wide x 22.5mm high
* Weight: 110g
* Power: 3.6 V
* LCD
. Main: 12 lines at maximum (176 x 192)
. External: 4 lines (96 x 64)
* Color: Silver
□ Battery Specifications .. Standard (900mA)
* Talk: About 150 min.
* Standby: About 120 hrs.
[About Samsung Electronics]
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, and digital convergence technology. Samsung Electronics employs approximately 64,000 people in 90 offices in 47 countries. The company is the world's largest producer of memory chips, TFT-LCDs, CDMA mobile phones, monitors and VCRs. Samsung Electronics consists of four main business units: Digital Media Network, Device Solution Network, Telecommunication Network and Digital Appliance Network Businesses
http://www.ybreo.com/main/getProductInfo_ie.cfm?Latest=yes&AdvSearch=no&Keyword=&Brand=&....
culater
ck ` I feel your discouragement, but atleast it's coming.
http://www.uscdirect.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.12.exe/cgi-bin/smpagegen.exe?U+scstore+wktl2055ff1b331b+-p...
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culater - Fingers Crossed.
B Grand wouldn't it...
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You have to go into 'Top Ten Coolest Gadgets' on AOL Welcome.
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On todays AOL's Welcome Page... 5 Editors choice, Top MP3 players. '' There cool, there hipp, there this years must have.''
MXP-100 included - nice
http://aolsvc.pcworld.aol.com/computercenter/aol/article/0,aid,75783,00.asp
emit... Go Edig
Interesting -
http://allmediaguide.com/partners.html
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culater - IMHO The most significant part of that is this statement:
In the case of the recording industry, an increasing number of artists, including nationally known acts like Alanis Morissette and Aimee Mann, have already discovered that it's far more profitable to sell directly to fans than to sign away their rights to a record label.
Artist can do it.... Portals to. Shock The Monkey
They neglected Peter Gabrial... n Prince
And it's not OT.
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Sent - I suggest he see my post.
The RedDotnet site is packed full statements regarding compliant devices... and DataPlay has it on their site.
And if we're not involved, well... we better be.
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Very Interesting - Coupled with my last post and the LiquidAudio PR today... their a bit behind, but I bet still on track.
RedDotNet is a subsidiary of Alliance Entertainment Corp., Inc.
RedDotNet is a leader in the digital revolution, providing state-of-the-art proprietary technology and services that enable brick-and-mortar retailers to harness the limitless potential of digital retailing. RedDotNet is founded on a smart, digital distribution network that provides music previews, album cover art, and editorial information via in-store media stations in retail locations.
In December 1999 RedDotNet received a $70 million dollar cash infusion from the Yucaipa Companies. Other investors in RedDotNet include George Soros' Quantum Industrial Partners. In November of 2000, Yucaipa announced an additional $25 million dollar investment in RedDotNet.
Today RedDotNet delivers music through in-store media stations. In the future, RedDotNet will deliver audio books, DVD's, video games... any form of home entertainment product that can be digitized.
The company's RedDot systems' Multimedia Dot and Audio Dot take in-store music previews to a new level of simplicity and ease. The RedDot's are approximately nine inches in diameter and four inches deep. The systems can be installed as a stand alone fixture, mounted in the bins, placed on an endcap, or on a wall.
The Red Dots enable customers to preview specific albums that can be selected by browsing through the bins or via the Dot’s touch screen and dial technology. Upon selection of an album, the physical CD can be scanned using the UPC code. The device then delivers sound samples, cover art, and editorial content (provided the information in the company's database). This content is provided by a sister company, the All Media Guide. www.allmusic.com
An in-store RedDot content server delivers information to the Dots. A proprietary high-speed network enables the RedDot Network to manage the content, database, and in-store equipment. This external system consists of a satellite-based wireless network with two way talk back via the company's Network Operating Center.
Beyond AMG’s rich database of sound samples of 200,000+ albums, cover art, and reviews, RedDot's planned product extensions include: Search capability in Q1, 2001, remote fulfillment orders in Q2, 2001, in-store CD manufacturing in Q3 2001, in-store digital downloading to compliant devices in Q4, 2001, and rich media advertising and data mining in Q4, 2001.
The RedDot system also includes an innovative in-store listening post. This Audio Dot consists of a bar code scanner and headphones. The Audio Dot is compact, easy to install, and can be placed every four to eight feet in a store’s CD bins.
The RedDot system was first implemented in May 1998 with The Walt Disney Company in retail locations within Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The system provides on-demand, in-store custom compilation CD manufacturing.
The RedDot Network is deployed with systems in the stores of major chain and mass merchant retailers including, Barnes & Noble, Kmart, TransWorld Entertainment Corporation, Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc., Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc., and Best Buy-Musicland Stores Corporation.
Key Dates for RedDotNet
Founded in December 1997 as Digital Digital On-Demand
Acquired by Alliance Entertainment Corp., Inc. December 1999
Established as the foundation of Alliance's new Media & Internet Services Group, February 2000
Red Dot Net Mercury In-Store Music Preview System
Features:
New level of simplicity and ease for in-store music previews
Can be installed anywhere
8 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep
Touch screen and dial technology
Data provided by All Music Guide ("AMG")
Enabled for DataPlay and for digital downloads to SDMI compliant devices
Delivers sound samples, cover art, and other information
http://www.dataplay.com/jsp_files/en/whatsplaying/products.jsp?action=details
What's missing from this picture ?
http://www.reddotnet.com/html/part.htm
maybe 1 year... na sooner, surely.
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Boulder, CO, May 13, 2002 - Action Marketing Group, an integrated marketing agency based in Boulder, CO, was named Agency of Record for Evolution Technologies, Inc. to launch the company's line of portable digital audio players and establish the brand through an aggressive marketing campaign. With an estimated value of $5 million, the media and marketing budget will include print and television but also focus on unconventional grassroots tactics to reach the target consumer.
"To assert our position in the digital music industry, we needed an agency that could create significant buzz in a highly competitive market," said Brad Deifer, president of Evolution Technologies, Inc. "We selected Action Marketing Group because they work with high-profile brands and know how to command the attention of consumers and get them to interact with products in unexpected, yet highly memorable ways."
The campaign will target the teen market and music enthusiasts through advertising, consumer electronics retail and merchandising programs, event sponsorships, public relations and guerrilla marketing tactics. The first products to hit retail in June with Action Marketing Group's creative imprint will be Evolution and MTV's line of MP3 players, followed in July by the MTV500, which features DataPlay's optical media, a cutting-edge digital technology. All of the products will be available at major consumer electronic retailers and on-line.
"The campaign will emphasize Evolution's unique positioning and superior technology," comments Rob Schuham, president of Action Marketing Group. "The digital music industry is still developing, allowing a player like Evolution to become an instant market leader. Our collective abilities to move quickly and leverage underground and urban marketing will allow us to do things that large consumer electronic companies simply can't do."
"Our final decision to go with Action Marketing Group rested in the fact that we're all a bunch of music freaks. Both of our organizations are grounded in the love of music and the desire to find new ways to reach people with it." Deifer concludes.
Action Marketing Group provides promotions, presence marketing, media, advertising, event management and interactive services for such clients as American Express, AT&T Broadband, Heineken, Nike, Seagate Technology and Walnut Acres Organic Foods & Beverages.
Action Marketing Group (www.action-marketing-group.com) is an independently owned, privately held agency headquartered in Boulder, CO with affiliate offices in Los Angeles, Vancouver, B.C., London and Melbourne. Strategic business partners include Warren Miller Films and Warren Miller Entertainment as well as a national network of metro-based coordinators.
Founded in 2000 by Brad Deifer after he discovered the first wireless MP3 player, Evolution Technologies (www.nowevolution.com) currently distributes products throughout Asia, Europe and North America. With MP3 becoming the de facto choice for music listeners, Evolution is committed to provide digital audio and radio communication products to music fans everywhere.
Contact:
Lisa Martin
Action Marketing Group
(303) 998-7220
Toshibas new PDA will have VR and use 802.11
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=410588
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=FONX&read=410606
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Subj: DataPlay / PJBs
Date: 5/6/2002
To: matt.rosa@cornerpro.com
Dear TVMusic4u.com:
In 2000 I wrote asking if you were considering doing secure digital downloads of your collections; You may want to look at the new DataPlay and Treo10 personal juke-boxes which may be doing this very soon. I personally don't think the existing Nomad and all Rio handheld products are equipped with the new internal clock/firmware-upgradability and carry the Digital Rights Management capabilities like these new ones coming to market. The Treo can hold 3 to 500 CD's in the palm of your hand. See Microsofts recent PR on it's 'Mercury' project.
From all indications MTVi is preparing a 'New Experience' via Viacom, with DataPlay this summer - possibly bundling these new devices and working with music companies setting up time-based-subscription services. RedDot, a DataPlay partner is setting up downloadable Kiosks at retailers. Note today's Press Release with IBM and Viacom/MTVi. See: DataPlay.com and EDIG.com (e.Digital)
I think specialty markets and secure portals ie,. TVMusic4u.com could/should be set up to send content directly to PCs and these new devices utilizing DP, IBM MicroDrive and the various forms of Compact flash storage. Wouldn't this boost your sales if done using secure DRM technology - If a person could bypass buying the CD I'd definitely do it because I've seen many of your special collections Id like to put on my PJB, but don't enjoy the thought of buying the CD then transferring it...
GoodLuck / GodBless
Respectfully,
Tim Scott - AMS Mgmt.
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What I gathered - little bit from CC
FF- B/O Will be branded 'Powered By e.Digital Technology'
Eclipse able to go into exiting 300,000 cars
Working with OEMs on Fugitsu platform beyond that which has been announced.
We are working with Musical on multiple DataPlay OEM designs.
RF - We antisipate additional retail to be be announced.
JC - Confirmed this in Q/A.
JC - 4 new products, Announcements within weeks per DGN developments. Subscription - The products coming will make this much clearer as to key players in the OEM community.
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ck ` IMHO this Eurika Solution could come into play with Eastech and XM for a handheld. More likely the Agere chip-sets though for auto.
TI's 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.
Maycom will launch the digital radio at CeBIT 2002, March
13 - 20 in Hannover, Germany, in Booth # IT-Hall25-E15.
http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/newsletter/news/sc02030.htm
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Tin - Headphone portables - HD doesn't imply DP, same phrase used in both articles, think the former writer got the wrong dates and was actually being told of the Sep. DP portables.
e.Digital FAQs says ongoing Samsung project/s, beit a HD portable, a BoomBox YEPP DP with detachable handset or somekinda Set-Top-Box.
Maybe we'll get a june suprise.
Toshiba's being really quiet - remember CEO holding up a DP disk.
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Thnx Wm - Has iRiver licensed QDX, AAC etc,,, I looked on their america's site nothing. Their Asia mother ship is unreadable.
Have we gotten confirmation of no involvement with them.
DRM sounds like us.
Maybe we'll get news per the labels certifying QDX for DRM & Content-Key ability.
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Sinkman See: Retailers create private-label PCs
Chains cite demand for more choices as brands dwindle
By Gary McWilliams
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 3 — With the computer selection on their shelves shrinking, big electronics retailers are creating their own private-brand PCs, much like many supermarket chains sell own-label soda and cereal. Already, such giants as Best Buy, Future Shop and RadioShack Canada have launched house-brand PCs — some with the encouragement of chip maker Intel Corp. Several other chains are quietly exploring such store-brand offerings.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=347524
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'thought had heard' operative word...
would they tell if they knew.
with no PR
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11889 been updated.... eom
Sink - Don't write DP off before its even started... mid May players, June content and IMHO a media blitz ie,. comercials
If we still hold Samsung and Toshiba - well
And why does Evolution video player have a Columbia Logo on its display - thats Sony ;)
Remember Musical does make Sony's walkman ..... If recollection serves me right
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Gern - Good find... Toshiba's big on EMMS and guess who else -
e.Digital
Love it.
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gern - nice pick-up on teen demograph.
It's true, we only do the best :)
emit... not that i lik brittney - lol, tough chic
Ment if she could do this to some extent per mxps voice recorder be nice... er.
NEW - Dragon Systems® Demonstrates Technology That Indexes and Searches Audio Recordings for Speech Content
http://www.voicerecognition.com/2000/news/2_8_99.html
ScanSoft Announces AudioMining XML Speech Indexing Products That Enable the Text Search and Precise Playback of Audio and Video Content
AudioMining Development System and Dragon MediaIndexer Create XML Index and Timestamp Data for Every Spoken Word; Makes Rich Media Visible to Text Search Engines
PEABODY, Mass., March 26, 2002 - ScanSoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSFT), a leading supplier of imaging, speech and language solutions, today introduced two products based on new AudioMining™ XML speech indexing technology - the AudioMining Development System and Dragon® MediaIndexer™ for Windows. The products use ScanSoft's advanced speech recognition capabilities to automatically create XML speech index and timestamp data for every word spoken within rich media files, and allows text-based keywords and phrases to be used to playback speech information at precise locations within audio and video content.
http://www.scansoft.com/news/pressreleases/2002/20020326_amproducts.asp
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AUDIO MINING: THE NEXT BIG THING?
12 March 2002
One of the benefits that emerging audio mining technologies provide is faster and more efficient monitoring of potential threats in an increasingly security-conscious world, according to Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant Curt Hall.
States Hall, "Audio mining technology makes it possible to retrieve specific information from hours of recorded or live video footage, radio and television broadcasts, telephone conversations, call center dialogs, help desk recordings, and other formats.
"In effect, audio mining engines create a high-level structured summarization of the spoken language that can be searched and browsed using different criteria -- such as the names of people, places, organizations, and topics mentioned in the transcript as well as the identities and locations of the speakers in the recording."
Audio mining technology combines speech recognition, language processing, and intelligent indexing and search algorithms to transcribe the content of video or audio broadcasts into computerized text information. Promising application areas for audio mining technology, says Hall, include the following:
Technical support centers and help desks. A technical support manager responsible for providing feedback to a product development team can search a database of recorded technical support calls to determine the issues end users are contending with.
Call centers. A stockbroker or call center operator can gain access to specific recorded conversations to verify transaction information. Marketing executives can access customer requests and feedback from a company database to fine-tune marketing campaigns.
Broadcast media. A news editor at a TV or radio station can search archives of recorded broadcasts to retrieve information relevant to breaking news almost immediately. The technology can also be used to index live broadcasts.
Corporate communications and public relations departments. Communications and PR managers can index and search both live video feeds and archived broadcasts to track how their company or a competitor is being covered in the news.
Conference managers. A conference management organization can use audio mining to create an index of key topics to help in preparing tapes of sessions. Such an index would allow material on CD-ROM to be directly accessible.
Intelligence gathering, law enforcement, and security operations. Security personnel can obtain critical information from hours of recorded phone calls or radio transmissions much more rapidly than before. The technology also allows the indexing and searching of live broadcasts in order to monitor breaking events.
ok... another port to,,, shoot that's QDX, Divx, o2D, Didn't we port Lucent's EPAC to the TI-DSP n hundreds other DSP capabiliies have been accompolished last 2yrs - Think eventually they'll have the infrostructure to make - well handheld facilitaors for secure interactive personal infotainment.
Are we the only one doing anything with em.... Hell... IMHO we're the ones doing it for TI.
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Got to have firmware upgradablity in the hands of any potintial market, especially for time-based-services - We are selling them... Treo's,MXPs, and next DataPlay.
Give it till 03 then edig and Viacom could easly have MTVi bundles of STB system based on secure interactive infotainment.
This pps - you gota laugh. inmyopinion we're inovative and worth street attention - Favor to Mngt in a tough market;
I feel we're on the edge, or better the cuspit...
Eclipse smacks at Military and lest we forget Cquence.
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D, if would audio-mine, b even better. eom