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- From: rberry@vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: DCC/MD Ads (was DCC in Radio Shack Flyer!)
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.184200.23796@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:42:00 GMT
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- References: <Bxxnn7.6KA@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov19.171947.3631@metrosoft.com>
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- Organization: IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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- In <1992Nov19.171947.3631@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:
- >
- >The Phillips ad for DCC (which shows a two-page binary representation of
- >'Mysterious Ways' by U2) claims 'crystal clear CD quality', with no mention
- >anywhere of a compression scheme, lossy or otherwise.
-
- It *claims* to show a binary representation of "Mysterious Ways," but if
- you examine the digits, you'll find the same 17-bit pattern repeated
- over and over. If *that's* what PASC does to music, I'm not interested
- in DCC!
-
- :-)
-
- :: Robert Berry (with too much time on my hands, apparently)
- IBM PRGS Cary
-