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To: Walter Morton who wrote (7142)	8/9/1999 2:44:00 PM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

-----Original Message----- From: David E. Weekly <dew@cm-hci-lab-2.stanford.edu> Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999 6:16 PM Subject: Re: EPAC >Walter, > >EPAC does exist. I'll probably get to hear it in a non-redistributable >format in the next few weeks. Basically, I am good friends with a >President/CEO of a certain company that was very close to licensing EPAC >-- unfortunately, in the middle of the negociations EPAC was (internally) >sold to another branch of Lucent, cancelling the negociations. I've heard >it sounds pretty good (not as good as AAC, but much better than MP3) and >compresses faster than any of the other advanced (VQF/AAC) codecs. From >the look of things, it's going to be a very closed standard for some >time to come...[sigh] > >Basically, Rachel Walken, who is in charge of the EPAC group at Lucent, >has been very anal and difficult to work with. After our initial contact, >she left me a curt phone message saying that she wasn't interested in >having me evaluate EPAC, but there was a listening study going on "that I >could participate in if I was still interested." Since then she has >neither replied to any phone nor email messages. From everyone that I've >talked to her hard-headedness has made any EPAC-related work very >difficult. > >Some day, maybe, we'll get to hear it... > > -dave > > >On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Walter P Morton wrote: > >> Hello David, >> >> This was posted on Silicon Investor: >> >> -----<< EPAC Update >> >> >> The deal that I had been rumoring to happen a full 2 months ago officially >> fell through. =/ I may or may not get to test EPAC, and if I do I certainly >> will not be able to hand out audio samples unless I do some interesting >> trickery. This was pretty disappointing...I may pick up the codec reviews >> for the other formats though, if people are still interested. >> Message 10841126 >> >> >> David, I'm sure you are very busy so I will keep it short: >> >> What the hell is up with EPAC? Nobody (many others like you) is able to get >> their hands on EPAC. Does it really exist? I contracted Celestial seveal >> months ago about their AudioLib 2.0. All they had to say was "keep checking >> our web site" that has been dead since 1998: >> celestialtechnology.com >> >> What excuses have you been given as to why you may not evaluate EPAC? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Walter Morton >> >> > >