For the next week or two, BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting the evening
concerts live from the South Bank's "Pull out all the Stops"
festival, and as far as I can make out, the intention is to stream
all of these in 4.0, using HTML5 with AAC-LC codec at 320kb/s. The
concerts all begin at 19:30 GMT (summer time does not begin in Europe
until the last weekend of March), which currently equates to 3:30 pm
in New York -- 05:30 am in Cooktown!. :)
Tonight's concert is the first on the newly-restored Festival Hall organ.
Information about all the events (including some that can be heard
only in stereo on the BBC website) here:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/pull-out-all-the-stops/productions
Full programmes here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/r3-southbank.html
Blog of Rupert Brun, Head of Technology, BBC Radio here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/posts/Radio-3-in-40
Information about getting set up to listen, including a test of
channel identification here:
http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio3/faq.html
Twitter for feedback: #BBCR3surround
Asctual stream here:
http://rdmedia.bbc.co.uk/radio3/index.html
The order of channels is
1 Left front
2 Right front
3 Center [not used for these experiments]
4 Bass (LFE) [not used for these experiements]
5 Left rear
6 right rear
There has been a lot of discussion here about media and file formats
for the interchange of sursound. Even though browser implementation
is currently limited, it seems to me that HTML5 is probably the best
solution to date for distribution. Please dont complain that it isnt
HOA; 4.0 is an excellent start (at least we dont have to deal with
horrible 5.1!) and a chance to create greater awareness and interest
in high quality surround sound.
David
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