blech:
posted on 2004/06/12 10:32
Why AAC, Ogg and WMA probably won't unseat MP3s.
The:
Most newer formats will compress songs into files barely half the size of an MP3.and produce similar if not better audio.
But audio files aren't that large really, so that 1/2 isn't that great - storage has grown faster.
And you'd think that for video, that kind of improvement would be more important - it kind of will be, but the installed base of MPEG2 stuff means it'll be a while before people are upgrading - though a uk ADSL operator will likely be the first to use it in a large deployment
blech:
Hell, bandwidth grows less quickly than hard drive space, and the growth of broadband is what made MP3 sharing over networks feasible.
The:
For video though, actually the newer protocols have worse licensing - that has kind of really held things back
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