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To: Jon Stept who wrote (3282)	4/29/1999 3:31:00 AM
From: Savant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

OT..goipo?........ Now there is a word I've never seen. Was it a toipo? LOL Wireless will reign, true, but cable, and fiber optic cable will persist. Reason? Because of interference of all sorts. Not the least of which is one of those Electro atom bombs the scary people have hidden away. I read about them some time ago..years...no one mentions them, but their purpose is to totally disrupt the electronic communication network, including computers. point being, fiber optic will probably be able to weather it the best. It also resists the more mundane types of interference. The cable industry is running scared from the satellite incursion. That facet of the industry is burgeoning right now, their only problem, is they don't have a good back channel. I vote for DSL.. in the near term, but the cable people are scared and getting down to business fast, they were slow before because, as you said, they were the only game in town. Best, Savant PS better throw in the obligatory...GO EDIG..it seems to be getting bigger all the time...whatever could be next?

To: Jon Stept who wrote (3282)	4/29/1999 8:48:00 AM
From: chris431	Respond to of 18366

Few quick responses: Urlman: MP3 quality is seriously lacking. To be honest, I don't really think any of the "online" distributed formats are of the quality that DVD Audio will present (as such, anyone with decent audio gear interested in getting the best sound should have little interest). MP3 has one good purpose right now....archiving of older CD's that you fear will start losing data. For that reason alone (besides the fact that people probably wouldn't care to spend 30 or 40 minutes to download an album) , online distribution will not become the mainstay of music distribution anytime soon (although once the avg. pipeline is above 56k, say goodbye to 3mb compressed songs and hello to 30mb songs that actually rival DVD Audio). Jon Stept & Savant - make sure to thank the government for the great "competitive" industry that we call cable & telephone (although long distance is a different story). Stept's ideal (truly competitve = higher quality) would have happened long ago had local monopolies not been supported by the legislature (and still are for that matter). Chris