Just to let everyone know, the empeg mk2's first public appearance will be on June 20th-21st at the MP3.com summit - see mp3.com for info. I'm not sure what booth we're on, but it's a pretty small show so I would expect you'll find us easily!

After that, it's swiftly back to the uk for the Glastonbury Festival (www.glastonbury-festival.co.uk) for some relaxation and loud music ;)

Hugo

This sounds cool, I wish I could be there.

Hugo, how come you didn't use the "Announcements" forum for this message?

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Tony Fabris

Booth 30

Tony "The Policeman" Fabris.

Enough said.

Paul.

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Indeed, I got to meet Hugo at the MP3 Summit and play with the new Mark 2 gizmo. The temptation to grab one and run for the door may or may not have crossed my mind at the time, but I can at least vouch for it being real. For more entertainment, the MP3 guys apparently appropriated the dashboard from a former Ford Ka and brought it along for, umm, display purposes.

Also, a new competitor to EMPEG appeared at the show: PhatNoise. Personally, I'd prefer an EMPEG, but the PhatNoise box is somewhat interesting. The general idea is that it sits in your trunk and pretends to be a CD changer to your pre-existing head unit. Your playlists appear as multiple disks mounted in the "changer". Or something like that. The hard disk is mounted in a plastic cartridge that might remind you of a Nintendo cartridge and they have a cradle gizmo for your home computer.

Also, a new competitor to EMPEG appeared at the show: PhatNoise.

Yeah, we were complaining about the PhatBox website in the ICE forum, and then someone from the company dropped in and posted on the thread...

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Tony Fabris

The PhatNoise slogan is "mobilizing the digital revolution" -- what revolution, why is phatbox going to be the motivation for the digital revolution? come on!! what's with the psuedo fascist symbolism? why are they overinflating a music player as something it's not quite? i looked at the site by mistake again and it's worse the second time around!

Calvin

Go easy on 'em, it's just marketing slogans.

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Tony Fabris

Can't, my mind is simply busy building connections. Look at their logo, doesn't it remind you of the scene from Starship Troopers when all the dictator of earth came out to rally the soldiers to kill the bugs? the logo is identicle except for the lightning bolt. :-/

Calvin

They've got a lot of people - they had 2x as many people at the show on their booth than are in the whole of empeg... but I suspect there were a lot of friends & SO's along for the trip to San Diego ;)

Hugo