Just received from Texas Instruments,
what a heck is this SDMI specification?
anybody knows something about it?


DSP Solutions:
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SANYO Announces First SDMI-Compliant Secure, Portable Digital Music
Player Based on Liquid Audio Software and Texas Instruments Digital
Signal Processors

REDWOOD CITY, CA. (August 23, 1999) -- Liquid Audio, Inc.
(Nasdaq: LQID) and Texas Instruments (NYSE:TXN) today
announced that SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. will deliver a
secure, portable digital music player based on Liquid
Audio software and TI's programmable Digital Signal
Processors (DSPs). The new portable device will meet the
newly-released Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI)
guidelines for portable consumer devices, and playback
secure digital music files that are downloaded from the
Internet via a PC onto flash memory cards. SANYO is also
developing a full line of consumer audio products for the
digital delivery and playback of music in Liquid Audio
formats that ranges from portable stereos and players for
automobiles to Kiosk terminals.