[vorbis] new MS codecs

[Freya]

Heres the bit I missed:

With the new codec released Tuesday, Microsoft says
users can store about three times more music than MP3
on portable devices. Microsoft also unveiled its new
Windows Media Player 8 for Pocket PC devices. 

--- Freya <freya128 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I thought this might be interesting to you, it's an
> extract from the latest streaming media newsletter,
> I
> was intrested to note that MS are claiming cd
> quality
> audio at 48kbps whichi is obviously very low, I
> didn't
> think much of it at first because nobody uses MS
> codecs for audio anyway! However (a bit I missed off
> this quote by the look of it) I then read mention of
> portable audio players and thought hmmm, if you can
> get cd quality audio in a third of the memory,
> people
> might use it for that. I mean imagine if you have
> one
> of those little 16mb winCE things, not a lot of use
> really but then if you had 3 times the space it
> would
> be like 48mb and 32 would be like 96mb and it all
> starts sounding a lot more useful.
> 
> Anyway I just thought it was interesting, probably
> it
> sounds horrible :)
> 
> love
> 
> Freya
> 
> "During his keynote, Ballmer talked about the next
> operating system, codenamed “Whistler”, which
> features
> advanced audio and video functions. He also unveiled
> new Windows Media 8 audio and video codecs with
> significant quality improvements. Near CD-quality
> audio is now available at 48Kbps, beating
> Microsoft’s
> previous 64Kbps rate. For video, “near VHS” is
> available at 250Kbps, while “near DVD” is at
> 500Kbps. 
> 
> The quest for higher quality audio and video is
> growing rapidly. In May, RealNetworks announced
> RealVideo 8, which it claims can show VHS quality
> video at about 300Kbps. More recently, it announced
> RealAudio 8, which provides CD quality audio at
> 64Kbps
> – half the size of MP3. However, Microsoft now has
> the
> upper hand, with its announcement that it will
> support
> CD quality audio at 48Kbps. Windows Media 8 codecs
> are
> backward-compatible with Windows Media Player 7 and
> 6.4." 
> 
> 
> 
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