At 10:26 AM 2001-01-23, FC3 Richards wrote:
the way computer technology has been going for the past 5 years MP3's will
become outdated in the next 2 years.
there will be a new file format and it will have DVD quality sound.
What file format are you referring to, or are you making this up as you go?
by 'dvd-quality-sound', you either mean 5.1 surround (which doesn't
directly benefit this appliction, although might have neat uses), or the
fact that each channel is 48khz (dat quality). CDs are 44.1khz, which is
nearly indistinguishable from 48.
IIRC, MP3 supports 48khz sampling rate files. If I'm wrong, and it 'only'
supports 44.1khz, then it's still not that much of an audible difference.
If you're talking about DTS, that's an entirely different can of worms and
is still years off from having reasonably priced computer equipment that
can input/output that kind of sound.
and no one will want to use the present format anymore.
MP3 supports the audio quality formats (16/48/stereo) that people have been
using for years (15 years if you count 44.1, which is what CDs are). To
claim it's going to just 'go away' in the next 2 is kind of absurd.
vinyl has stood the test of time, and it isn't going to disappear
anytime soon.
As have CDs, which the huddled masses have eaten up as the end-all to audio
quality.
-j
