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To: bob who wrote (3572)	5/4/1999 3:22:00 AM
From: bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18366

After reading it a second time I have come to realize that it may be a biased publication in favor of the AAC (MPEG) format. From the article; Audio researchers have been working on the next new technology for almost ten years, since MP3 was written. Now multiple new solutions -- AAC, Lucent's EPAC, and apparently MS-Audio 4 -- have reached the next level at the same time," says Webnoize technology correspondent Eric Scheirer, an M.I.T. researcher and an editor of the MPEG-4 standard. Apparently Mr. Scheirer was responsible for most of the article.

To: bob who wrote (3572)	5/4/1999 3:59:00 AM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

That's a damn good article. We are five day late getting to the thread! Shame on us! I sent an email to Eric Scheirer, an M.I.T. researcher and an editor of the MPEG-4 standard, several months ago, but got no response. I asked him to comment on the very things that are mentioned in this article.

To: bob who wrote (3572)	5/4/1999 4:07:00 AM
From: Walter Morton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

This is the part that stands out most to me: "But technically speaking, what are the major differences between AAC and EPAC? Both offer exceptional sound quality for lossy compression formats. EPAC encodes much faster than AAC, decodes slower than AAC, and has a compression ratio of 13:1, while offing very good sound quality. AAC decodes very quickly, has a compression ratio of 22:1, and offers exceptional sound quality, but the encoding process takes significantly longer -- hours to encode a 5-minute song. "In the interests of the majors, an encoding process that takes so long is not necessarily a bad thing. What better way to deter piracy? Not only would encoding tools be hard to acquire, but the time-intensive process would likely deter all but the most aggressive, AAC-dedicated digital pirates. "Given AAC's advantages -- an open standard with impressive sound quality and compression rates -- it seems unlikely Lucent could supplant AAC with EPAC as the labels' first choice. (It is worth mentioning that, since the architecture for secure digital music solution being used will be interoperable, both AAC and EPAC could be used; however, a situation where two premiere formats are supported seems far less likely from a logistic standpoint)...." Webnoize.com per bob.