9/07/2004
Sony' tries to kill the iPod (again)
"A quarter century after Sony Corp. first shipped the legendary Walkman personal stereo, the electronics giant is launching a high-tech model that aims to topple Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod as the leading digital music player and status symbol.
For now, Apple has nothing to fear.
Sony's Network Walkman NW-HD1 is as clunky as its name. The gadget looks great, but it's ruined by a bizarre insistence on a proprietary file format, a confusing navigation scheme and software that tries to be flashy but is incredibly frustrating.
And the Sony, which works only with a Windows PC, costs $399. That's $100 more than an iPod, which can run on either a Windows or Macintosh machine while providing the same 20-gigabyte music capacity. A 40-gigabyte iPod runs $399." [Via DETROIT FREE PRESS]
The MethodShop Spin: Sony needs to take a page from HP's book and license the iPod, not try to kill it.
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Yeah, sure, great deal seeing how a 40 gig iPod costs four hundred- try a Creative player. They'll sell you 40 gigs in a moddable unit for $270.
No one needs to kill iPod; once people realize what it is- and what Apple itself is- iPod may kill itself. Down with overpricing, down with screwing the customer when something goes wrong, and down with locking people into proprietary formats. (see: iTunes/AAC)
No one needs to kill iPod; once people realize what it is- and what Apple itself is- iPod may kill itself. Down with overpricing, down with screwing the customer when something goes wrong, and down with locking people into proprietary formats. (see: iTunes/AAC)
[*] posted by 
: February 28, 2005 11:42 PM
: February 28, 2005 11:42 PM
Dude, you are pretty dumb. AAC is not proprietary at all. It is an open mpeg standard. If you know how to read, please visit this page.
Also read this you stupid dick. I hate technology racists like you.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme intended for audio streams. AAC was designed as an improved-performance codec relative to MP3 (which was specified in MPEG-1) and MPEG-2 Part 3 (which is also known as "MPEG-2 Audio" or ISO/IEC 13818-3). AAC, which was first specified in the standard known formally as ISO/IEC 13818-7, was published in 1997 as new "part" (distinct from ISO/IEC 13818-3) in the MPEG-2 family of international standards. The codec design was further improved in MPEG-4 Part 3, known formally as ISO/IEC 14496-3, with the addition of Perceptual Noise Substitution (PNS) and a Long Term Predictor (LTP). Although the AAC codec specified in MPEG-2 Part 7 and the AAC specified in MPEG-4 Part 3 are somewhat different, they are both informally known as AAC (for clarity it is best to refer specifically either to MPEG-2 AAC or to MPEG-4 AAC).
Some of its advances:
* Sample frequencies from 8 kHz to 96 kHz (official MP3: 16 to 48 kHz)
* Up to 48 channels
* Higher coding efficiency for stationary signals (blocksize: 576 -> 1024 samples)
* Higher coding efficiency for transient signals (blocksize: 192 -> 128 samples)
* Much better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz
* More flexible joint stereo (separate for every scale band)
What this all means to the listener is better and more stable quality than MP3 at equivalent or slightly lower bitrates.
AAC takes a modular approach to encoding. Depending on the complexity of the bitstream to be encoded, the desired performance and the acceptable output, implementers may create profiles to define which of a specific set of tools they want use for a particular application. The standard offers four default profiles:
* Low Complexity Profile (LC) - the simplest and most widely used and supported.
* Main Profile (MAIN), which expands upon LC with backwards prediction.
* Sample-rate Scalable (SRS), also called Scalable Sample Rate (MPEG-4 AAC-SSR).
* Long Term Prediction (LTP), added in MPEG-4, an improvement of the MAIN profile using a forward predictor with lower computational complexity
Depending on the AAC profile and the MP3 encoder, 96 kbit/s AAC can give nearly the same or better perceptional quality as 128 kbit/s MP3."
Also read this you stupid dick. I hate technology racists like you.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a lossy data compression scheme intended for audio streams. AAC was designed as an improved-performance codec relative to MP3 (which was specified in MPEG-1) and MPEG-2 Part 3 (which is also known as "MPEG-2 Audio" or ISO/IEC 13818-3). AAC, which was first specified in the standard known formally as ISO/IEC 13818-7, was published in 1997 as new "part" (distinct from ISO/IEC 13818-3) in the MPEG-2 family of international standards. The codec design was further improved in MPEG-4 Part 3, known formally as ISO/IEC 14496-3, with the addition of Perceptual Noise Substitution (PNS) and a Long Term Predictor (LTP). Although the AAC codec specified in MPEG-2 Part 7 and the AAC specified in MPEG-4 Part 3 are somewhat different, they are both informally known as AAC (for clarity it is best to refer specifically either to MPEG-2 AAC or to MPEG-4 AAC).
Some of its advances:
* Sample frequencies from 8 kHz to 96 kHz (official MP3: 16 to 48 kHz)
* Up to 48 channels
* Higher coding efficiency for stationary signals (blocksize: 576 -> 1024 samples)
* Higher coding efficiency for transient signals (blocksize: 192 -> 128 samples)
* Much better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz
* More flexible joint stereo (separate for every scale band)
What this all means to the listener is better and more stable quality than MP3 at equivalent or slightly lower bitrates.
AAC takes a modular approach to encoding. Depending on the complexity of the bitstream to be encoded, the desired performance and the acceptable output, implementers may create profiles to define which of a specific set of tools they want use for a particular application. The standard offers four default profiles:
* Low Complexity Profile (LC) - the simplest and most widely used and supported.
* Main Profile (MAIN), which expands upon LC with backwards prediction.
* Sample-rate Scalable (SRS), also called Scalable Sample Rate (MPEG-4 AAC-SSR).
* Long Term Prediction (LTP), added in MPEG-4, an improvement of the MAIN profile using a forward predictor with lower computational complexity
Depending on the AAC profile and the MP3 encoder, 96 kbit/s AAC can give nearly the same or better perceptional quality as 128 kbit/s MP3."
[*] posted by : March 01, 2005 8:15 AM
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