It's a bit disorienting: slip on a set of headphones, turn up the volume and, while you move about the room, the music stays put -- as if coming out of five speakers stuck on a wall. ¶ Software engineers in Germany who developed the widely used MP3 audio file format have taken the technology to a higher level with a next-generation format that delivers cinema-like multichannel audio. ... Link: CNN.com.
The lateset public radio program to be podcast is Moira Gunn's Tech Nation. The impressive ITConversations effort is doing it. The first one features an interview with novelist (Neuromancer) William Gibson. Link: ITConversations.
The music industry is showing some signs of a rebound in the first half of 2004, with full-length CD shipments to retail outlets increasing by 10.2 percent, compared to the amount of shipments over the same time period in 2003. This is the first time in five years that the first half of the year has experienced an increase in shipments. DVD music videos and licensed digital downloads also showed impressive growth, according to new data announced today by the ...RIAA. ...¶... SACD and DVD-Audio sales made up for about 300,000 units each, showing a declining trend from the combined sales number from 2003 for both formats. This is not good news for high-resolution audio. ... RIAA Sales Numbers Up Over 10% in First 1/2 2004 – SACD and DVD-Audio Tank
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