With the plethora of CD and DVD formats out there, it can be confusing figuring out what will work with what. Standards can help define specifications for a particular format, but often do little to guarantee compatibility between them.
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On Wednesday evening, June 10, <A HREF="http://www.avacademy.com">The Academy Advancing High Performance Audio & Video</A> held its 1998 Golden Note Awards at the Marina Del Rey Ritz-Carlton. Following an address by John Hoskins of the Advantage Performance Group, a sales consulting firm, the amiable awards ceremony was MC'd by Paradigm's own stand-up comedian, Rob Sample. AAHPAV's ceaselessly energetic Chairperson Sue Regan assisted in the presentations, as did Academy President Joe Picirilli. And the hard-working winners (drum roll, please) are . . .
Both <A HREF="http://www.sonicfrontiers.com/">Sonic Frontiers Inc.</A> and The Lenbrook Group of Ontario, Canada stated June 5th that they will not be proceeding with a deal announced <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/10129/">earlier</A>.
This past week, <A HREF="http://www.avacademy.com/">The Academy Advancing High Performance Audio & Video</A> (AAHPAV) released its 1998 Golden Note Awards Nominations.
There are some wildly different speaker technologies out there with one common goal: accurate reproduction of music. In your experience, which approach works best?
The <A HREF="http://www.experience.org">Experience Music Project</A> (EMP), a 130,000-square-foot interactive music museum opening in Seattle in 1999, announced on April 30 that it has acquired 19 recently discovered audio tapes of rare Jimi Hendrix recordings from 1969 and 1970.
Everyone claims "CD-quality" sound over the Internet these days, but the reality always seems far short of that promise. As a result, work continues to develop an encoding scheme worthy of the CD-quality title. Recently we <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/10133/">reported</A> on developments at <A HREF="http://www.att.com">AT&T</A> regarding the <A HREF="http://www.a2bmusic.com">a2b</A> format, and both <A HREF="http://www.liquidaudio.com">Liquid Audio</A> and <A HREF="http://www.realnetworks.com">RealNetworks</A> compete on a weekly basis to grab headlines for their audio technology announcements.
At the recent <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com">WinHEC '98</A>, <A HREF="http://www.nec.com">NEC Electronics Inc.</A> made available prototype sample units of 1394-to-POF (plastic optical fiber) repeater boxes that extend transmission of video, audio, and textual data over long distances via plastic optical fiber and copper media. NEC Electronics, one of the first companies to demonstrate this technology over plastic optical fiber and copper and wireless media, is also one of the first to demonstrate transmission speeds of 200Mbits/s over plastic optical fiber.