"A very good friend of mine is Verizons Head EE - he has looked at it and he don't own it, saying there's too many workarounds and our certain aspects are insignificant"

just to add....with regard to workarounds.....that is exactly what firmware is, workarounds to bring different disciplines together. The whole industry survives on workarounds through firmware.

e.Digital supports a software solution of portability in place of a hardware problem...bringing any disiplin under its structure with one typical firmware arrangement.

doni