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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4358)	1/17/1999 2:58:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (2) of 29970

VoIP currently don't need MPEG 'cause all we want to hear is low quality voice similar to analog telephone. However, true multimedia in the future will migrate everything to MPEG, may be MPEG 5, 6 standard. Thus standardizing the protocol for stereo audio and digital video. Non-MPEG VoIP will be a low-end application, or maybe it's temporary. In the not so faraway future, every media will be transmitted with IP packet. Audio and Video on MPEG compression, everything else on other compression protocols. TCI has already offered limited digital cable programs on certain channels. I just feel cable is a natural fit for the multimedia application since the ground work has already been layed. I am not implying ADSL cannot do that. Of course it can, but at what cost to stream video. Are baby bell company a video content providers? Do baby bells have the expertise to stream video programs to your PC? I don't think so.

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