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To: Jeff Jordan who wrote (24885)	11/14/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: AlienTech	Respond to of 43080

MP3 is just mpeg layer 3 audio compression format, its the most widely used, liquid audio and while bunch of others are there. But you need dedicated hardware to play them back like diamond mp3 player called rio etc.. But now you can also download songs from hits.com etc and then burn these MP3's onto a regular writable cd to play back in your car cd player etc.. You need something like Adaptec EZCD4 or Nero etc to do it.. But it seems someone wrote a plug in for real time decompression of MP3's for this environment to create CD's and everyones doing it. Will be a big thing this XMAS.. AC3 is mostly used for DTS or dolby digital etc as you can have up to 6 channels I think and stereo is only 2 channels, and pro logic is also 2 channels but can be split into 6 channels? while AC3 has 6 distinct channels or you can have 3 different channels of stereo multiplxed into the same stream. AC3 is only available in DVD players right now, so you can store 5+ hours of music in MP3 format onto a CD but no way to play it back in your cd player, But changing the MP3 into AC3 lets you play back that CD in your DVD player.. Its the decompression codec in MPEG2.. MPEG1 or video CD just uses MP2's.. which dont compress it as good or as high data rates. (Also I think you can store like 20+ hours voice instead of 5+ hours of stereo on a cd).. When DVD ram comes out you can store your entire CD collection on 1 DVD-RAM drive and have it play for a week non stop! Get one of them sony dvdman's and you can listen to the same CD for years :> no more juggling cd's or changing them etc etc etc.. I just got DSL, its great.. Almost like ISDN, I liked ISDN cause it was CLEAN, no stutter.. Even T1's and stuff have stutter.. And dont forget latency... You only notice all those when you do real time stuff interactively. You dont want to wait a second playing doom when the latency is high via modem. The difference is amazing. 256K is twice as fast as ISDN but still slower than T1 etc.. But heck its a loooot better than a modem. Maybe I'll get cable but with the realiability of cable who knows..