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To: foundation who wrote (17717)	1/2/2002 7:56:59 AM
From: foundation	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196739

New devices hike bar for multimedia quality (Korea) by Won Rak-yon December 27, 2001 Will MPEG-4 become the standard for delivering broadband content? MPEG-4 is a next-generation compression technology, combining audio, video and graphics in a single streaming format. The technology offers picture quality five times as crisp as video CDs. InkaEntWorks, an Internet multimedia content provider, has unveiled what it called the world's first hand-held MPEG-4 player, Motion-i, enabling users to download and watch movies, music videos and news programs. The device, which is about the size of a package of cigarettes and weighs 105 grams, has a small color display panel and resembles a folder-type cellular phone. The device can also support other audio and picture file formats, such as MP3, WMA, AAC. "The shift in generation from audio MP3 players to audio-visual MP4 devices will take place," a company official, Cho Myung-hwan, said. Samsung Electronics Co. introduced in late June a cell phone that could play MPEG4 video images in 200,000 colors. But the gadget was short-lived due to a lack of demand. Experts say local cell phone vendors will unveil a series of MPEG-4 handsets after May, when a mobile network offering data transmission speeds up to 20 times faster than the current standard will be in commercial service. LG Electronics Inc. is developing a cell phone with a liquid crystal display panel that supports 260,000 colors. Reakosys Inc., which supplies LG with its MPEG-4 software, has also developed software for playing video images on personal data assistants. "Korean companies are globally competitive in their MPEG-4 technology," Jang Yoon-seok, an executive at Reakosys, said. "As the 2.5-generation and third-generation mobile telecommunication market forms overseas, we expect the demand for MPEG-4 devices to grow." english.joins.com

To: foundation who wrote (17717)	1/2/2002 10:34:00 AM
From: straight life	Respond to of 196739

huh? "Over 60 percent of the total population of South Korea use mobile phone services, making the country one of the most wired in the world, industry sources said yesterday." uh... wireless would've been a more accurate term and: "SK Telecom said its users numbered 11.88 million as of end-December, up 8.6 percent from 10.935 million a year earlier. Its market share was 40.8 percent. SK Shinsegi Telecom said its subscribers reached 3.31 million, down 5 percent from 34.85 million in December of 2000. Its market share was 11.4 percent." Just so you know we're paying attention (the mistakes were in the original source material).