In early March, executives from more than 100 entertainment and electronics companies gathered in Los Angeles to hammer out details for the new audio compression standard.
Already, XM pays IBiquity royalties for its audio compression technology.
Holder of patents covering everything from color television to the MP3 audio-compression format, Thomson has been selling off its loss-ridden television business to focus on becoming the fount of everything digital, from cameras to DVD duplication, for the entertainment industry.
Apt-X is a unique codec that reproduces robust sound that's true-to-life, providing CD quality audio, regardless of file compression encoding.
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RIAA's pitch for a new audio standard as a chance to get their own proprietary compression technique adopted so they can ask royalties for its use.
The biggest drawback of Bluetooth is that it compresses and degrades audio quality, but my usually picky ears didn't notice the compression while playing back high bit-rate MP3s.
Pic Mail uses advanced video compression techniques to compress the file without loss of video quality or audio.
Its experts meet four times per year to discuss, propose and issue international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures and audio.
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Some have even gone as far as to state that Sony's strategy of using MPEG-2 and uncompressed PCM audio on single-layer Blu-ray discs may have required too much video compression, resulting in early releases that don't match the sharpness of VC-1 encoded movies available on HD DVD.
Aside from compression artifacts, the cable version has other problems too, like cropping and over compressed audio -- both of which are enough to make us yearn for DVD.
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