``“Our business and revenue growth is expected to be fueled primarily by customer-branded devices based on our proprietary video/audio technology platform,” commented Atul Anandpura, president and chief executive officer of e.Digital.``

“By continuing to expand the capabilities of our patented MicroOS™, e.Digital is at the forefront of innovating and integrating the latest technology into business and entertainment devices. While we are proud of our early pioneering efforts, the majority of our business growth is expected to come through successful partnering with companies who share our vision of enabling large business and consumer markets with user-friendly devices that are either pre-loaded with, or can easily and quickly access, secure content through new high-speed downloading protocols, with our patent-pending hardware encryption protecting the content.”

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``SVP, meanwhile, is promoting a hardware-based approach to DRM. ``Our goal is to design basic building blocks for a secure device, without adding significant overhead,`` said Howard Gurney, who`s responsible for systems architecture at ST`s home entertainment group. Under the SVP model, an SVP-complaint chip can be embedded in any consumer electronics device. Each chip receives a unique, secure SVP device certificate that keeps content secure throughout the distribution chain.``