Voice-nav MP3 Players & HD-based Video

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Subject: RE: Great point SGE...Thx Tin
From SGE1
PostID 251198 On Thursday, May 01, 2003 (EST) at 1:15:10 AM
Response To: Tinroad PostID 251180

I had obviously overlooked that.... One thought however: could it be that with Apple's commitment to AAC and MusicMatch and PressPlay using WMA (if I recall correctly), is there a possibility for ''codec wars'' (and DRM wars) which could be to our benefit? There's a mess of other codecs out there (at one point a couple of years ago I had counted up to ten...codecs that is!), most noteable perhaps being QDX (the one that fits itself to available memory - thus best for a flash device). This could, maybe, make things a little more interesting for us....

SGE

September 19, 2000
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Shareholder:

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"Regardless of the outcomes of well-publicized music industry copyright infringement lawsuits, our flexible Internet music player and jukebox designs will benefit end users by including support for a variety of popular music formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, ATRAC3, and ePAC, as well as popular Digital Rights Management Systems and a variety of different storage media.
Our flexibility helps us take advantage of confusion in the marketplace and gives us a competitive edge in a dynamic new industry in which 32 million units are expected to sell by 2003, according to Forrester Research.".
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12-11-2002

Thank you for your e-mail, Tim. Per our engineering department, all of the
players are firmware upgradeable to accommodate new audio codecs, DRM
systems and additional functionality.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=624732


Best regards,

Robert Putnam
Senior Vice President

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