Disklavier

My dealer just returned from a trade show where Yamaha announced a very 
interesting new technology called PianoSmart.  As I understand 
PianoSmart it is designed to work with Yamaha CD players in disklaviers 
such as the DC3A. Again, if my understanding is correct, one simply 
inserts a commercial CD (not a Pianosoft Plus Audio  CD) in the 
disklavier's CD player and a PianoSmart floppy disk into the floppy disk 
player.  The floppy disk contains a recorded piano accompaniment to the 
commercial CD and the acoustic piano accompaniment will play back in 
proper timing with the commercial CD.  While this is similar to Yamaha 
Pianosoft Plus Audio CD's (where the CD has the piano parts recorded as 
data on the CD along with the instrumental and vocal parts (if any) 
recorded on the other channel of the CD, it affords several obvious 
advantages: (1) Yamaha will be able to provide accompaniments to many 
many commercial CD's.  In fact my dealer has just sent me a listing of 
Titles in Development for the Smart Pianosoft series and it includes 
about 150 titles in development now.  (2) One will be able to record 
their own accompaniments (or hire a competent pianist to do so) for 
their favorite commercial CD's. (3) The Smart Pianosoft software will be 
considerably cheaper than the present Pianosoft Plus Audio CD's.  My 
dealer stated that Yamaha has indicated that this software will be 
available in June 2002 and will require a firmware (downloadable from 
the internet) upgrade to the disklavier.  

This is all that I have learned from my dealer about this exciting new 
technology/software.  I would be pleased if anyone from Yamaha would 
step in and  confirm or correct any errors in the above information;

Tom