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Re: [ARSCLIST] Codecs: Windows NG
I use both systems. I like each for different reasons. I've had vista
for a good while, the full tilt version. It is bloated (as usual),
requires lots of hardware to run as well. I had the devils own time
finding / waiting for drivers for all my hardware. That said, I have
found it entirely stable. Some of the changes were real enhancements,
regrettably not all are in every version. Some times I think it is like
trying to figure out phone company rate plans !! The only real
difficulties I have had were with third party beta drivers. Because of
that I was very frustrated with it at first. If they had waited for
decent third party driver development before releasing it the press
might not have been so bad.
No, I'm not a fan of 'Bill'.... but sometimes MS does some things right,
sometimes you want to kill them. I also credit them with (finally,
perhaps) really diving into the codec's. It would be almost easy to just
sit back at this point and say that with bandwidth and storage abilities
increasing so fast, why compress anything. That would be short sided of
course....
Just my 2.1 cents... :>)
-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
[mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:56 PM
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Codecs: Windows NG
Hi Bob:
I sense the usual blind hatred of all things Microsoft in some quarters
on this list, so your facts might not get through.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Olhsson" <olh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Codecs: Windows NG
> -----Original Message-----
> From Dave Radlauer: "...By far the best codec work has been done at or
by
> the Fraunhofer organization in Germany.
> Microsoft had a brief merger with RealAudio just long enough to steal
the
> technology, and presumably some of the folks who worked on it...
>
> Jim Johnston, Microsoft's Audio Architect, came from Bell/AT&T Labs.
You'll
> find his name all over most of the Fraunhofer patents. Jim was the
principal
> designer of MP4/AAC.
>
> His presence is a huge reason to take Microsoft a LOT more seriously
than
> most of their competition. It's really too bad nobody else is making
the
> same level of investment in audio technology as opposed to marketing
hype.
>
>
> Bob Olhsson Audio Mastery, Nashville TN
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>