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CES report from EDIGlong
From EDIGlong
PostID 305897 On Sunday, January 11, 2004 (EST) at 10:49:40 PM

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Subject: The shock and awe
From EDIGlong
PostID 305772 On Sunday, January 11, 2004 (EST) at 3:08:12 PM

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The shock and awe of experiencing a ride in Sunpoop's car have stabilized although there may be flashbacks from time to time.

Sunpoop picked me up a t the airport and we made our way to the CES and were in the door as it opened. After walking around a bit we found the TI booth which was near the front entrance of the Central hall.
The Odyssey was displayed in a case along with the Alaska Airlines IFE DigEplayer. I will post pictures later.
The booth consisted of 3 large sections and in the middle of the third section was a table set up to display EDIG products.
Walter Pfeffer, who is the customer Tech Support Test Supervisor was there to explain and demonstrate the new Idiom Video player and a Gateway DMP-X20

More on the Idiom player and Eclipse in a later post.

As we were listening to Walter describe the player we turned around and there was Fred.
Sunpoop has known Fred and many of the main players of EDIG for many years he was able to initiate a very interesting conversation with our CEO.
Mr. Faulk was looking for someone who was supposed to meet with him and he informed us that he had to leave in abut 3 minutes so not wasting another second we began an interview process that continued on for at least an hour.
The person that Fred was to meet was found later to have waited at the wrong booth. Fred ready to leave at a moments notice when this other person showed up but there was a lot of noise, many people and the meeting just didn't materialize.

So not to waste Fred's time we continued our interview.

We asked if there were going to be any further announcements and he explained that there are projects in the works and negotiations were about complete but they were not going to be completed until all the I's were dotted and T's crossed. He was very pleased with the meetings he, Atul, and Steve Ferguson were having and expects great things but cannot publicly announce anything that would jeopardize negotiations.
JoJo and Steve Ferguson will be working on Pr's to be announced at the proper time.
They are working with project managers and decision makers so the new projects are not based on wish lists. Future announcements will be based on completed negotiations.

We asked if we were involved with PortalPlayer and was confirmed and again later by Atul.
Because of a massive effort to get Gateway and our IFE device we did not have time to work with HP but now that our major projects are complete we are ready to bring on many new projects based on the successful completion of the Gateway player and IFE device. Some of the new projects could result in very large deals being made in other industries.
No numbers or names were ever given.
He did say that we would smile if we saw the numbers he was talking about.

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All of our new contracts will be dependent on the benefits to EDIG and production costs will be borne by our new partners.
Many new devices will be developed by Cornice using chip sets designed by Texas instruments. The combination of chips and Cornice drive in conjunction with EDIG technology will result in a device that uses few chips and will be very price competitive.

We work with DivX in that we develop products that use DivX and we use EDIG technology to secure the content.

When asked how he feels about EDIG on a scale of 1 to ten he said that he felt that we were a "9".

The meeting broke off when the missing person finally showed up. The crowd was much too large to just randomly wander about and try to find someone. The best Fred could have done is exactly what he did and that was to stay in one place.

I am very proud to be invested in this company. The management, engineers and staff are very dedicated to the success of the company and lessons learned over the past years are about to pay off.

Ill have more to write as I post pictures.
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