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...I can't yet announce the precise codec we'll be using for the next 3 year run, I will say it is making me very happy to see 56kbps streams outperforming (from a purely subjective "quality" analysis) current 128kbps streams, and the cost of the encoding seems manageable enough for AOLTW to continue absorbing encoding and decoding costs, not to mention the majority of playback devices and applications will be supporting the codec as well by 2004, if not already." ------------------------ Perhaps we need to convince Tom otherwise. It is likely to be AAC or WMA they are going...

...I can't yet announce the precise codec we'll be using for the next 3 year run, I will say it is making me very happy to see 56kbps streams outperforming (from a purely subjective "quality" analysis) current 128kbps streams, and the cost of the encoding seems manageable enough for AOLTW to continue absorbing encoding and decoding costs, not to mention the majority of playback devices and applications will be supporting the codec as well by 2004, if not already." ------------------------ Perhaps we need to convince Tom otherwise. It is likely to be AAC or WMA they are going...

...I can't yet announce the precise codec we'll be using for the next 3 year run, I will say it is making me very happy to see 56kbps streams outperforming (from a purely subjective "quality" analysis) current 128kbps streams, and the cost of the encoding seems manageable enough for AOLTW to continue absorbing encoding and decoding costs, not to mention the majority of playback devices and applications will be supporting the codec as well by 2004, if not already." ------------------------ Perhaps we need to convince Tom otherwise. It is likely to be AAC or WMA they are going...