We don't post any "Official" positions to this bulletin board. Here's my Unofficial Interpretation of our position.. :-)

It may prove necessary for us to support SDMI releases of MP3 or future formats for legal reasons, or to enable our customerbase to access the music resources that become available (i.e. purchasing of music from the net).

That said, if it happens that way, we plan to break out the decoding software in a modular fashion. This will allow clients to continue to run the "not officially supported" non-SDMI decoder (at their own discretion and responsibility) whilst continuing to benefit from development of the rest of the player.

Rob