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To: Bruce Hoyt who wrote (14257)	5/9/1999 7:48:00 AM
From: ed pires	Respond to of 19109

Hi Gang, I have to thing that there is a good possibility that something is going on. I remember talking to an engineer 5 or six years ago when the TMMI office was in CAL.,this was when Liquid Picture & Liquid Audio were being worked on. This person talked to me for over 30 minutes about both products and the progress they were making.About a year ago I was able to talk to Tom and asked about this person.He stated that "he was working in the great state of Microsoft and doing quite well" I will not use his name because I truly don't know if he is still working there or not,but IMHO, I see some possible connection here. Hope for the best WHENEVER, Ed

To: Bruce Hoyt who wrote (14257)	5/9/1999 8:24:00 AM
From: Dennis P	Respond to of 19109

Compression ratios? Encryption? MP3? Check out this article from CNET News from Friday morning. You should read the whole article (link below), but here's an excerpt that will make TMMI longs all warm and fuzzy inside: Whither MP3? For the moment, analysts agree that consumers have chosen MP3 as a standard, but the technology lacks all the components necessary to give it staying power: true CD-quality sound, fast download speeds for all, and the hit content consumers want. "At roughly 11:1, today's compression schemes have impressively delivered near-CD-quality sound. The problem is that even at the aforementioned ratio, onerous downloads are the reality for mainstream consumers accessing the Internet over dial-up connections," Mooradian wrote in his report. "For households with only one phone line, this is especially unrealistic. "A new file format that doubles or triples the compression and subsequently cuts the download time while maintaining the sound fidelity may well obviate the demand for MP3 simply because it is far more practical," he added. And according to the a2b Music spokeswoman, "It's nice that [music news, download, and community site] MP3.com has 10,000 bands no one has heard of, but what matters is that music people want is available for download." One possible solution could be an encrypted MP3 format such as those offered by Audio Explosion, MCY, or AudioSoft. Those companies have the advantage of offering both the familiar and popular MP3 format with built-in security. But often the players support both encrypted and unencrypted files, so record labels refuse to offer their content to them. Many companies in the music download space say they are "format agnostic"--they offer music via MP3 now but will switch when consumers adopt another format. news.com