To: Bond007 who wrote (6314 ) 7/4/1999 2:58:00 PM From: bob Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 18366
eDig mentioned here. LUCENT: Massive Music Mastery by Hartley & Pattie Lesser - posted 07/02/1999 Networked home entertainment systems are going to be the targets for a heady number of new products that'll debut later this year. For example, one such product will release that is the result of Lucent Technologies licensing their Enhanced Perceptual Audio Coder(tm) (ePAC) to Lydstrom, Inc. The technology will be used in a new, personal media storage device which can store the equivalent of 5,000 compact discs! Families will be able to effectively manage and catalog various types of media, especially CD collections and audio downloads from the net. ePAC is used to compress Internet music at a ratio of 11:1. You'll be able to retrieve, store, catalog and play multiple streams of audio to different parts of your home. ePAC offers one of the highest-quality, digital audio codecs in the industry and is being used in the Internet music initiative developed by the Lucent New Ventures Group. ePAC will also be used in a reference design for a handheld device being developed by e.Digital for delivery in December to consumers. Lucent's New Ventures Group also happens to be a founding member of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI). This is the worldwide recording industry's effort to develop an open, secure access system for digital music. Plus, ePAC is a new version of the Lucent Perceptual Audio Coder(tm)(PAC(tm)) developed by Bell Labs, offering an audio compression algorithm at 128 kilobits per second. ePAC uses psychoacoustic modeling which is a representation of how humans hear sound. Thanks to the technology's variable bit rates and audio quality, the coder can be used in multiple bandwidth applications. At www.lucent.com you can become even more lucent regarding this technology.